Ross & Cromarty Roots | Norman Macrae.

Picture No:	11276
Courtesy of:	Roddie Macpherson
Year:	2010
Graveyard	Dingwall, Mitchell Hill

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Norman Macrae.

In/loving memory/of/ex Bailie NORMAN MACRAE J. P./founder, the Northern Weekly/and latterly of the North Star/died 13th August 1933/in his 69th year/also his wife/JANET GRAY/died 20th Nov. 1915.

Far beyond these troubled walls/he lives immortal now/with heaven's hosts around the throne/and crowns on every brow.

Also/their eldest son/ANGUS (Innes) N. MACRAE/died 17th January 1959.

[see also Image No. 14183].

Picture Added on 04 July 2010.

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My great granduncle. I am descended from his brother Colin who left for the USA around 1890 (after training as a printer's apprentice in Dingwall, Colin worked for the Denver Post and founded the Minidoka County News in Idaho). In 1923 Norman wrote the fully-illustrated Romance of a Royal Burgh: Dingwall's Story of a Thousand Years, a copy of which can be found in the Highland Heritage Centre in Inverness. A memorial to his parents (Angus and Christina) is in the St Clements churchyard in Dingwall and I'm in debt to the contributors to this website who have photographed these and other family memorials.
Added by Robert MacRae on 04 September 2013.