Howff Memorial 553

Inscription.

 Erected
By
ANDREW DEMPSTER
Brickmaker
Scouringburn Dundee
In memory of his
father and mother
WILLIAM DEMPSTER
and
JEAN JACKSON
Also his wife
HELEN CHALMERS
Who died 23rd Decr
1820 aged 33 years
and of his daughters
AGNES DEMPSTER
Who died 30th June 1838
Aged 9 months.

ANDREW DEMPSTER

Born 28th Novr 1782

died 21st Novr 1844

WILLIAM CRAIGIE DEMPSTER

Born 4th April 1831

died 29th Jan 1848

Also

his grand daughter

MARGARET WHITTON

who died

the 16th Feby 1850

aged 10 months

Original Inscription.

1820. Erected by Andrew Dempster, Brickmaker, Scouringburn, Dundee, in memory of his wife Helen Chalmers, who died 23 December, aged 32.

She left this world without a fear,

But for six of family she held so dear;

To supply their wants, O Lord descend,

And to the motherless prove a friend.

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