General Introductory Notes:
These pages were original
compiled in August 2003 as part of a CD ROM available from
the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society and provided a complete textual and photographic archive of
ALL the monuments in Holywood old graveyard. The full content of this CD is too large for a website. Here I
have provided only the full list of MIs and a selection of photographs. |
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The main navigation bar buttons appears at the top of the screen
below the Title. The buttons down the right-hand side of
this
page provide links to an alphabetical names index. This index is
in the form of abstracts of the MIs. This abstracts page provides
links to the full text of the inscriptions appearing on the
monuments.
The CD, mentioned above, also offered further links to photos of the
actual gravestones. |
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The MIs listed here are based on the transcription from a survey in the 1970s by teams
funded through the MSC Job Creation schemes. For the purposes of this record I
have rechecked this survey against the available photographs. Corrections and additions have been
made to the lists given here.. |
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| Genealogists today owe a debt of gratitude to all of the earlier teams of transcribers who recorded
memorial inscriptions in graveyards throughout Dumfries and Galloway.
Photographs taken in recent times show that many stones are now virtually
unreadable, are damaged or missing altogether. But for
the diligence and effort of earlier transcribers we would not have a record of the inscriptions from many monuments in these old graveyards. |
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| Holywood Church and Graveyard |
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A
visitor to this graveyard will note
that many of the table stones in this graveyard are in stacks making it impossible to access the inscriptions of those lower in the stack.
Moving such stones would require specialist heavy lifting equipment and the
skill to use them.
The inscriptions from at least twenty table stones are lying hidden in these
stacks. These inscriptions have not been transcribed and are are not
likely to be. |
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Stacking appears to have happened earlier than the 1970s when the last record
was made because only the 'top' stones are recorded in the 1970s survey.
The inscriptions not yet matched to monuments may be of stones in these stacks, but that seems highly unlikely since most table stones or flat stones were referred to as such in the 1970's transcription. |
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Pittendreigh Sept. 2007 |
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