Fishing

Memorial: M5662

Headstone at St Vigean’s Church, Angus commemorating John Cargill d. 1771

Location

St Vigean's Church, St Vigeans, Angus, Scotland

Transcript

'Here lies the body of JOHN CARGILL Shipmaster in Auchmithie who was the husband to AGNES CARGILL, he died at Arbroath 6th Febry 1771 aged 67 years also here lies the body of DAVID CARGILL their son who died May 15th 1771 aged 22 years. Revised by PETER SWANKIE MARGARET [side of stone] MARGARET SPINK wife of PETER SWANKIE died 19th Jany 1899 aged 92 years [back] 'IC IB 1744 JOHN CARGILL, HELEN CARGILL, CATHERINE CARGILL, ROBERT CARGILL, AGNUS CARGILL, JAMES CARGILL. Decay of nature without regard to age hath worn this youthful beauty from off the stage. How frail it is and in how short a time, it fades like roses when they're past their prime, we that survive sooner or later must, her corpse here lives crumbling into dust, while her better part triumphs above, the highest reach of any human love, and left behind within this silent bed, as fine as girl as even her corner lived. WILLIAM SWANKIE and MARGARET LAWSON.'

Details

Description: The reverse carved with the arms of the Royal Company of Fishing being an Imperial Crown and under it two herring.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Kirkyard
Materials: Sandstone

People

Cargill, John
Age: 67
Date of Death: 6/7/1771
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Shipmaster
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: An adjoining gravestone suggests that IC and IB are John Cargill and his wife Isobelle Bews who died 20th August 1743 aged 56. The names of their six children correspond.
Bibliography: Tay Valley Family History Society 'St Vigeans Kirkyard Monumental Inscriptions' (1998)
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