Category Archives: Perth and Kinross

Remembering Margaret (Maggie) Barrie

I have a sentimental attachment to Maggie Barrie. Her grave in Crieff’s Ford Road Old Cemetery was one of the first I located. Furthermore, after finding her grave I visited the new cemetery next door. The first grave I encountered belonged to a victim of COVID-19; a fellow pandemic casualty like Maggie, a century apart.Continue reading “Remembering Margaret (Maggie) Barrie”

Remembering Alexander (Alex) Sharp

Alex died from influenza and pneumonia on the third of February 1919 at the Leigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Atherton, Lancaster aged twenty-eight. He rests in a familial grave in Kinfauns Churchyard. The grave is cared for by the Commonwealth War Grave Commission. Alex was born in the nearby parish of Scone on the twenty-sixth ofContinue reading “Remembering Alexander (Alex) Sharp”

Remembering John George Burns

John rests in Scone New Cemetery. He died of influenza complicated by pneumonia and heart failure at the Perth War Hospital (now AK Bell Library) on the 31st of January 1919 aged thirty-seven. George was born in Borders town of Jedburgh on the 17th of June 1881 to George and Margaret (nee Telfer). He wasContinue reading “Remembering John George Burns”

Remembering Agnes and Christina (Christian) Keron

Agnes and Christina rest in graves exactly fifty miles apart; the former in Woodbank Cemetery, Armadale, West Lothian; the latter in the picturesque Fowlis Wester Churchyard near Crieff. Both succumbed to Spanish flu a mere seventeen days part from each other; Angus dying on the 6th of December aged thirty-fife; Christina on 23rd of DecemberContinue reading “Remembering Agnes and Christina (Christian) Keron”

Remembering Peter McArthur

This morning I attended the Remembrance Sunday service at Comrie War Memorial. Erected in 1921, the memorial sits in a quite garden at the head of Dalginross, the main southern thoroughfare through Comrie. Private Peter McArthur is commemorated on the war memorial. He lies in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Boulogne Sur Mer, France. Besides theContinue reading “Remembering Peter McArthur”

Remembering Flora McDonald Fender

Yesterday I visited Monzie Parish Church, which was open to the public as part of Perth and Kinross’ Doors Open Day. Flora McDonald Fender is interred in the churchyard along with her parents and niece. Her brother Thomas Junior who fell in France in December 1915 is commemorated in the church. I made another videoContinue reading “Remembering Flora McDonald Fender”