Inscription.

 Erected

By

GRACE NIMMO

in memory of her husband

JOHN MACKAY

merchant

who died in 1850, aged 62 years

and also of their children Viz

GRACE died 1819

aged 1 years and 3 months

MARGARET died 1827

aged 10 years

THOMAS died 1827

aged 1 year and 8 months

JEAN died 1828 aged 8 years

PATRICK died 1829

aged 6 years

MARIA died 1829 aged 1 year

and 3 months

GRACE died 1830 aged 8 years

ELIZABETH died 1830

aged 1 1/2 months

WILLIAMINA died 1836

aged 7 years

HELEN died 1841 aged 26 years

REV CHARLES BAXTER MACKAY

MINISTER OF BORGUE CHURCHYARD
THE ABOVE GRACE NIMMO DIED AT DUNDEE
IN 1868 AGED 76 YEARS & IS INTERRED IN WESTERN CEMETARY.

6 Nov 1850. the family of the late John McKay paid revisal dues & obtained liberty to remove the old stone & replace it by a new stone as of minute of Hospital Committee of 28 Oct 1850.

Source:RT

Original Inscription.

1819. Erected by John Mackay, Merchant, Dundee, and Grace Nimmo his spouse, in memory of their daughter Grace, who died 4th July 1819, aged 14 months; and of their daughter Margaret, who died 15th February 1827, aged 10 years.

Source: The Book of the Howff, ŠLibraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local History Centre & is
reproduced with kind permission.