Kirkyard of Tarland Aberdeenshire

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:55 pm

Anyone live near here?

I have an MI and I'm sure the year of death is incorrect. If it is correct then he died before his kids were born

Clever if you can do it

I'd appreciate anyone having a look at the headstone, if possible.

Jean

Post by **AnneM** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:57 pm

Jean

Sounds like a reasonable outing. If you pm me the information you have I'll see what I can do.

Anne

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:39 pm

There are several possibilities where the original figure can be weathered so that it then appears to be a different figure.

David

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:45 pm

Hi Jean
There are also downright fibs carved on grave stones!!

Just because it is carved in stone, it does not make it true....
Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:26 pm

Hi All

I'm quite sure there is a logical explanation to this. The year of his death reads 1759. The kids were born 1773,1775 and 1777

I think it is most probably 1789

Anne is having a look for me and has offered to take pictures, which will be a real bonus.

Best wishes
Jean

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:15 pm

To follow on from this, here is the actual MI:-

Here lie the remains of JOHN GAULD sometime farmer in Westtown d. 22 July 1759 aged 47 leaving behind 3 children JOHN,HARY & JEAN GAULDS. Also BARBARA INGRAM his spouse d. 9 June 1822 in the advanced age of 89 years. Also their son JOHN d. 7 Dec 1841 in the 77? year of his age. And HARRY GAULD d. 27? Mar 1848 aged 29, also HARRY GAULD his father d. 24 July 1856? aged 77 & His wife MARGARET OGG d. 25 Aug 1861 aged 80.

I have a Jane Gauld married to a James Smith in 1797 in Tarland. Their names confirmed from their son's d.c.

I have long suspected that the Jean Gauld mentioned on the MI could be the Jean Gauld who married James Smith, the only clue I had was that James Smith and Jean Gauld's daughter, Helen Smith, was with a family of Gaulds in 1841 as a herd girl.

However, a number of people on Roots and elsewhere have the Jean mentioned on the headstone marrying an Isaac Grant in 1806.

Now there are 2 Jean Gaulds born in Tarland. One born in 1773, father John Gauld. One born in 1782, father George Gauld. Mother's names do not appear on these IGI records.

If the Roots info is to be believed i.e. The one born in 1773 married Isaac Grant in 1806, then the one born in 1782 must have married James Smith in 1797 at the age of 15! This made me more convinced that my Jean was the one mentioned on the headstone and that she did marry James Smith.

Unfortunately there are no statutory death records for the Jean born in 1773 or for James Smith, but there is one for the Jean born in 1782!!

Her father is named as George Gauld and her mother as Mary Moir. The icing on the cake would have been her husband's name, Isaac. However it is an 1860 d.c. and just shows her name as Jane Grant, widow of a farmer.

So by eliminating one Jean Gauld and proving who she was, I feel very happy to claim the Jean on the headstone as MINE Unless someone can shoot my logic down in flames

Reading between the lines, I think a number of people have the MI and have jumped to the conclusion that Jean married Isaac Grant and, lets face it, it would be a lot easier tracing him than James Smith

Best wishes
Jean