Ross & Cromarty Roots | Isabella Matheson.

Picture No:	2935
Courtesy of:	Roddie Macpherson
Year:	2008
Graveyard	Gairloch Old

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Isabella Matheson.

[....?] placed here/by ALEX[...?] MATHESON Inch[...?]/in memory of his daughter/ISABELLA [.....?]/1827 aged [3 ?] years.

Picture Added on 22 July 2008.

Comments

This seems to be the grave of Isabella Matheson who was baptised July 23rd 1821 and was the daughter of Alexander Matheson Inn Keeper and his wife Anna Mc Donald whose address in the 1841 and later censuses is either Inchgown or Inchgown Cottage which is beside the Old Inn at the sea end of Flowerdale. The place name on the first 6 inch map is Innisgobhain. Anna Mc Donald's mother was an Isabella Fraser from Resolis on the Black Isle who married Thomas Mc Donald, mesenger of Dingwall in 1787 . Alexander Matheson is listed as retired licensed inn keeper in 1851 and in 1861 as Postmaster. Maps show the Post Office at the cottage.
Added by Tom Jackson on 24 November 2008.

A survey in 1985 gives the date of her death as 8 December 1827 aged 6 years.
[Wester Ross Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855, edited by Alastair & Margaret Beattie].
Added by Roddie on 16 May 2009.

Correction by Tom Jackson, recent check has shown that Isabella Fraser may not have come from Resolis as her Father Thomas Fraser on checking the marriage details is listed as of ALLIGIN.

Added by Tom Jackson on 17 May 2009.