Stone No.1443
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1814 By JAMES ABERDEIN and his spouse in memory of their children WILLIAM who died on the 11th aged 5 years JOSEPH who died on the 12th aged 8 months and ISABELLA who died on the 21st Novemver 1813 aged 3 years Also ELIZABETH aged 9 years BARBARA aged 4 years and ISABELLA aged 1 year and 5 months who died formaerly also lies here an infant son who died on the 20th Jan 1815 The above JAMES ABERDEIN died 25th January 1840 aged 83 years ELISABETH MURDUE relict of the above died on the 28th Sept 1854 aged 84 years
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Suffer little children and forbid them not to come into me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven
In memory of JAMES ABERDEIN who died 30th of August 1856 aged 50 years Also his daughter EMILIA who died on the 28th of January 1857 in the fourteenth year of her age also his son GEORGE who died in sept 1867 in the 22nd year of his age And Jean who died on the 12th March 1815, aged 16 years. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, Blessed be the name of the Lord. Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of heaven. Source: The Book of the Howff, ©Libraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local History Centre & is reproduced with kind permission.
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1814 James Aberdeen, Stoneware Merchant.
Source:Register of Tombs and Monuments in Dundee Burial Ground, 1832