INVERNEILL BURIAL GROUND NR 848183

Transcriptions by F S McKenna, 1984
(and in 1963: D C Cargill)
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“The burial ground is an enclosure, partly walled and partly fenced, set on an irregular four-sided platform high above the N bank of the Inverneil Burn; it stands on the E side of an old track which crosses the burn by a nearby ford.... The traditional name ‘Achadh na Cille’ is preserved in the nearby ‘Achnakeil cottages’, which lie about 150 m to the NW."

1. ROBERT son of WILLIAM SMITH (gardener) and ISOBELL LAMONT his spouse was deposited here A(nno) 1799

2. In memory of CHRISTINA SMITH, wife of DUNCAN SINCLAIR, who died at Silvercraigs, Lochgilphead, 10th March 1889, aged 77 years. Her mother ELIZABETH SINCLAIR died 13th June 1850 aged 58 years and father DONALD SMITH died 18th October 1850 aged 61.
(This Duncan Sinclair appears to be buried at Kilmahumaig , see # 2 of that graveyard)

3. (Broken}
Erected to the memory of DONALD CAMPBELL, late tacksman at Lochhead who died in August 1812 aged 83 years.

4. (Broken)
Erected to the memory of JOHN CAMPBELL late tacksman of Loch(Head) who died 27th November 1829, aged 67 ye(ars)

5. Erected by ROBERT WILSON in memory of MARGARET WILSON his spouse who died 6th June 1801 aged 56 years. Also of ALLAN AND ROBERT, their children.

6. JAS LAW 12.5.1850, 59, w HELEN SCOBY 20.12.1858, 58, da MARGT 1835, 7, da CATH 1831, 1; JOHN LAW 19.1.1915, 83, w MARY MCCALLUM, 6. 2. 1891, 48

7. ALEXANDER FERGUSON, 30.5.1822

8. (railed enclosure)
ROBT WILSON, 25.8.1863, 41; w ELIZA MINTO 23.5.1876, 66 (sis MARY ANN M 14.9.1849, 16 m, et sis ELIZ ISABELLA 8.5.1896, 54)

9. (railed enclosure)
JOHN HUNTER, surgeon, Lochgilphead, 1822 - 1890

10. EUPHEMIA MCMILLAN, 1843, 51; da CATH M 6.8.1869, 48, s DUGALD 1851, 27; s DUNCAN 1851, 21.