Ochiltree Kirk Graveyard Transcriptions

Date: 10 Dec 2021 [unknown]
Location: Ochiltree, East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Surname/tag: Murdoch

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Ochiltree Parish Churchyard

*First Stage -

1. to list all those MI's for the headstones that mention the Murdoch Surname.
2. to link names mentioned to existing profiles OR if no existing profile, create new profiles and then link them.

*Second stage -

is to add all the remaining MIs that have been listed for the churchyard that do not mention the surname Murdoch and repeat the process of linking them.

Note: The lists wiil only cover those headstones that were erected before ------- (Source: The Listing used is a publication produced by an unknown source but is most likely the Troon@Ayrshire Family History Society )

Monumental Inscriptions:

No. 014
In Memory of John Murdoch, mason, 4 Nov 1869, age 47, son John 24 May 1856, age 4.

No. 018
Here lyes the corps of Wm Mearns 13 Jun 1757, age 5, also this is the burial place of Geo Mearns 15 Jun 1779, age 67 (his wife Mary Murdoch 28 Feb 1779, aged 63).

No. 049
Erected To The Memory of John Murdoch, Miller, Ochiltree Mill 11 Nov 1859, age 72; his son Andrew 11 Mar 1869, age 40; his wife Sarah Kay 1 Apr 1869, age 81; his son John 5 Apr 1892, age 77; his daughter Jane Murdoch 2 Feb 1899, age 76 (Agnes S Wilson wife of John Junior d Ochiltree Mill 20 Jul 1909, age 83).

No. 133
Erected In Memory of Jan Murdoch 3 Jul 1823, age 12; John Murdoch 16 Aug 1825, age 47 (wife Jean Sloan d Kinnoull Schoolhouse 11 Jul 1811, age 67, interr in churchyard there.

No. 134
To The Memory of John Murdoch, Belston 5 Feb 1831, age 88; Thos Murdoch Jun d Glasgow 5 Feb 1839, age 20; Mary Murdoch 22 May 1817, age 35, Thos Murdoch sen 11 Apr 1868, age 88 (his wife Jean McCosh 24 Apr 1848, age 70) ; Colossians 111 ?  ; Jas Murdoch d [Ballagan] Benhill 18 Dec 1879, age 68.