| Picture No: | 3337 |
| Courtesy of: | Roddie Macpherson |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Graveyard | Urquhart Old |
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Kenneth & Mary (Stewart) Mackenzie & family.
Erected/in memory of/KENNETH MACKENZIE/contractor, Newton of Ferintosh/who died Jany 21 1917/his wife MARY STEWART/who died Feby 24 1928/their daughter ELIZA/who died Novr 25 1907/interred in/Cathcart Cemetery, Glasgow/their sdons, ALICK/who died Sept. 5 1931/WILLIAM/who died Sept. 3 1933/interred in/Liberton Cemetery, Edinburgh/RODERICK/who died 11th March 1944/also their daughter MARY/who died June 28 1954/and their son DONALD/who died Sept 27 1956/aged 86 years.
They rest from their labours.
Picture Added on 16 August 2008.
Comments
Hello Judy
I believe it refers to new crofts established after some older townships had been cleared on lower ground. According to Watson's 'Place Names of Ross & Cromarty', Ferintosh could mean the 'Land of the Toiseach', 'toiseach' is Gaelic for a dignitary such as a thane.
Added by Roddie Macpherson on 07 April 2018.
I believe it refers to new crofts established after some older townships had been cleared on lower ground. According to Watson's 'Place Names of Ross & Cromarty', Ferintosh could mean the 'Land of the Toiseach', 'toiseach' is Gaelic for a dignitary such as a thane.
Added by Roddie Macpherson on 07 April 2018.
Added by Judy Nixon on 06 April 2018.