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Stone No.43

 

Inscription.

1829

Erected

By

WILLIAM SHARP

Saddler Dundee in memory of

Lieut ROBERT SHARP

his son who died 4th Feb'y

1822 aged 30 years

ISABELL KINNEAR his wife

who died 14th June 1829

aged 64 years

JAMES SHARP tanner

his son who died at New Orleans

13th May 1829, aged 39 years

The above

WILLIAM SHARP

died 7th April 1841

(unreadable beyond this point)


Aged 82 years.

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

 


1855 Sept 26 Revisal dues paid by the Misses Sharp for permission to the to lay down upon the ground the old headstone which belonged to their father the late William Sharp saddler, and to erect a new one in the same place in memory of their brother the late John Sharp Millspinner.

Source:Register of Tombs and Monuments in Dundee Burial Ground, 1832

The above stone mentioned in the revisals above is 43-2.