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From: Sara Thomas <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] St Nicholas MIs
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:07:14 +0000 (GMT)
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Many thanks, Gavin. Yes, I am a member of ANESFHS so will follow up those suggestions. I had a feeling there was some such problem. Alas ---too far away to volunteer my services.
Sara
N Wales 




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From: Gavin Bell <>
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Sent: Sun, 4 April, 2010 17:49:46
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] St Nicholas MIs

Sara Thomas wrote:

> Not complaining, just remarking (as my Great-Aunt Dorothea used to
> say), but is there a reason why the MIs of St Nicholas Church have
> not been published?

Essentially because they are in no fit state to be published.  The
"unpublished" version was created, a good many years ago, by an ANESFHS
member (now deceased) who was very industrious, but also very slapdash
in his work.  He also seemed to think it was possible to survey and
record a kirkyard without drawing up any sort of plan of where each
stone was.

I had the dubious pleasure of overhauling and completing this former
member's work in one relatively small burial ground near Aberdeen.  It
took a long time to work out (among other things) that because he had
used no plan, and had visited the burial ground on more than one
occasion, seemingly with a gap of years, he had managed to record some
stones twice, but produced different readings on the two occasions.
Because of this, and other unfortunate aspects of his work, neither I
nor anyone else has so far summoned the courage to open the can of worms
which I fear the much larger St Nicholas would represent.

> My great-great-grandfather Rev Thomas Gray (d.
> 1867) was apparently buried in the churchyard and had a marble tablet
> to his memory within the church which was later transferred to the
> wall of the vestibule in the Free Church, Inverurie --- he had been
> the minister here from his ordination in 1843 until his death. I am
> keen to know whether his burial in St Nicholas Churchyard is recorded

I don't know whether our former member recorded the plaques inside the
Kirk, but if you are an ANESFHS member, you can request a lookup in the
MIs as he recorded them.

As regards information on your gggf's burial, that would be quite
separate from anything that might have been recorded on the plaque or on
any gravestone.  The burial records for St Nicholas are held by Aberdeen
City Archives.


Gavin Bell

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