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Picture No:199
Courtesy of:Roddie Macpherson
Year:2007
GraveyardAvoch Parish Churchyard
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Donald & Margaret (Davidson) Skinner

Placed by/DONALD SKINNER/who departed this life 1783/aged 52 years/and his spouse/MARGARET/DAVIDSON who/died 1772 ag/ed 67 years.
Picture Added on 28 November 2007.


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Could this be the father of Donald Skinner b.1726 Avoch d.1792 Cromarty M.Anne Johnstone abt.1767 in Cromarty. If anyone knows anything about David and Margaret I would be very grateful....Many thanks Pamela Hoad
Added by Pamela Hoad on 29 September 2008.
Alexander Patience married Janet Skinner b. 1737 in Avoch, on 7.5.1767 in Avoch
Could this Janet Patience (nee Skinner) be the daughter of Donald and Margaret. If there is a death notice of Janet we might have their parents listed on it.that would confirm it

Added by Pamela Hoad on 23 October 2012.
Is Donald Skinner not too young to have fathered either Donald or Janet? If the dates and age on the headstone are correct, he was born in 1731.
Added by Roddie on 23 October 2012.
I think that Donald's age is misread on the headstone. His wife Margaret was born in 1705 (her dates are clearer) and Donald was likely born about that time, rather than in 1731. The booklet for the churchyard sold by the historical society has a different age: "Skinner Donald 1783 65 Avoch Old Churchyard 129". If this is the same stone then he would have been born in 1718 which is a little better. Donald would then have been about 19 or 20 when Jannet was born.

Added by Ellen Kenchington on 20 November 2016.

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