Falkland Old Cemetery - Revision history

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	'''Falkland Old Cemetery''' is a cemetery in Falkland, with the entrance in [[High Street West]], but extending to the walls along [[Back Dykes]]. It is no longer used for burials following the opening of the new [[Falkland Cemetery]] on Newton Road.		'''Falkland Old Cemetery''' is a cemetery in Falkland, with the entrance in [[High Street West]], but extending to the walls along [[Back Dykes]]. It is no longer used for burials following the opening of the new [[Falkland Cemetery]] on Newton Road. It contains sthe burial aisle of the Johnston (or Johnstone) family of [[Lathrisk]].

	==Further references==		==Further references==

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	Square gatepiers with moulded caps circa 1840: rubble walled enclosure burials from 1670; a few stones 18th century onwards.		Square gatepiers with moulded caps circa 1840: rubble walled enclosure burials from 1670; a few stones 18th century onwards.

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	! colspan="2" \| Building summary		! colspan="2" \| Building summary
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	\| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" \| [[File:Old Cemetery gates..JPG\|~~300px~~]] The gates		\| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" \| [[File:Old Cemetery gates..JPG\|340px]] The gates
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	\| style="width:50%"\| '''Name''' \|\| Falkland Old Cemetery		\| style="width:50%"\| '''Name''' \|\| Falkland Old Cemetery
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	! colspan=2 \| HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/~~####~~ HES record for ~~####~~]</ref>		! colspan=2 \| HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31290 HES record for LB31290]</ref>
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	\| '''Category''' \|\|		\| '''Category''' \|\| C
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	\| '''Reference / Date''' \|\| /		\| '''Reference / Date''' \|\| LB31290 / 01/12/1971
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	\| '''Address/Site Name''' \|\|		\| '''Address/Site Name''' \|\| Graveyard High Street West Port
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	~~! colspan=2 \| 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>~~
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	\| colspan=2 \| '''Description:'''		\| colspan=2 \| '''Description:'''
			Square gatepiers with moulded caps circa 1840: rubble walled enclosure burials from 1670; a few stones 18th century onwards.

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	'''Falkland Old Cemetery''' is a cemetery in Falkland, with the entrance in [[High Street West]], but extending to the walls along [[Back Dykes]]. It is no longer used for burials following the opening of the new [[Falkland Cemetery]] on Newton Road.		'''Falkland Old Cemetery''' is a cemetery in Falkland, with the entrance in [[High Street West]], but extending to the walls along [[Back Dykes]]. It is no longer used for burials following the opening of the new [[Falkland Cemetery]] on Newton Road.

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	~~! colspan=3 \| HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31290 HES record for LB31290]</ref>~~
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	~~\| '''Reference:''' LB31290~~
	~~\| '''Date:''' 01/12/1971~~
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	~~Graveyard High Street West Port~~
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	~~\| colspan=3 \| '''Description'''~~
	~~Square gatepiers with moulded caps circa 1840: rubble walled enclosure burials from 1670; a few stones 18th century onwards.~~
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	==Further references==		==Further references==

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	\| style="width:50%"\| '''Name''' \|\| Falkland Old Cemetery		\| style="width:50%"\| '''Name''' \|\| Falkland Old Cemetery
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	\| '''Address''' \|\|		\| '''Address''' \|\| High Street West
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	\| '''Postcode''' \|\|		\| '''Postcode''' \|\|
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	\| rowspan="2" \|'''Other names''' \|\| Burying ground		\| rowspan="3" \|'''Other names''' \|\| Burying ground
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	\| Old Burial Ground.		\| Old Burial Ground
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			\| Kirkyard<ref>An odd description given that it is not near the kirk; however The 1963 listing for [[Gardens Cottage]] describes it as "west of kirkyard gate"</ref>
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	\| '''Date''' \|\| 17th century		\| '''Date''' \|\| 17th century
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	\| '''Latitude & longitude''' \|\| 56°15′09″N 3°12′39″W		\| '''Latitude & longitude''' \|\| 56°15′09″N 3°12′39″W
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			\| '''Reference / Date''' \|\| /
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			\| '''Address/Site Name''' \|\|
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			\| colspan=2\| '''Statement of special interest:'''

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			! colspan=2 \| 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>
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			\| '''Number:''' \|\|
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			\| '''Address/Site Name''' \|\|
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	==Further references==		==Further references==

	"I had a call the other day from the Rev. Mr Johnston, the Parish Minister, and Mr Alex Bonthrone, one of the heritors. They explained that there had been a complaint as to the untidy condition of the Burying Ground, situated you will recollect, on the south side of the main road in the town leading to the approach gates, and that the minister, who explained that the grass was high, proposed to have it cut, they further explained however that the tenant of the property on the west side of the entrance gate to the Burying Ground, belonging to Falkland Estate and tenanted by Mrs George Ramsay, had a hole in the garden wall through which a large number of hens kept by her passed into the Burying Ground, and they wished this hole shut up. They further, I gathered, wished a gate which leads from the inside of the Burying Ground entrance to the garden of the property shut or secured."<ref>Letter from [[George Gavin]], Falkland Estate factor to J. & F. Anderson, solicitors, 4 August 1904, quoted in [[Playfair and Burgess]], page 94.</ref>		"I had a call the other day from the Rev. Mr Johnston, the Parish Minister, and Mr Alex Bonthrone, one of the heritors. They explained that there had been a complaint as to the untidy condition of the Burying Ground, situated you will recollect, on the south side of the main road in the town leading to the approach gates, and that the minister, who explained that the grass was high, proposed to have it cut, they further explained however that the tenant of the property on the west side of the entrance gate to the Burying Ground, belonging to Falkland Estate and tenanted by Mrs George Ramsay, had a hole in the garden wall through which a large number of hens kept by her passed into the Burying Ground, and they wished this hole shut up. They further, I gathered, wished a gate which leads from the inside of the Burying Ground entrance to the garden of the property shut or secured."<ref>Letter from [[George Gavin]], Falkland Estate factor, to J. & F. Anderson, solicitors, 4 August 1904, quoted in [[Playfair and Burgess]], page 94.</ref>
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	"George Johnston (died 1900) had built up the Lathrisk Estate, and was rumoured, probably without much foundation, to be an eccentric recluse. His ancestors are buried in the Johnston family enclosure in the old burying ground in Falkland, and he himself is commemorated on the stone he erected there."<ref>[[Playfair and Burgess]], page 439.</ref>		"George Johnston (died 1900) had built up the Lathrisk Estate, and was rumoured, probably without much foundation, to be an eccentric recluse. His ancestors are buried in the Johnston family enclosure in the old burying ground in Falkland, and he himself is commemorated on the stone he erected there."<ref>[[Playfair and Burgess]], page 439.</ref>

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	"I had a call the other day from the Rev. Mr Johnston, the Parish Minister, and Mr Alex Bonthrone, one of the heritors. They explained that there had been a complaint as to the untidy condition of the Burying Ground, situated you will recollect, on the south side of the main road in the town leading to the approach gates, and that the minister, who explained that the grass was high, proposed to have it cut, they further explained however that the tenant of the property on the west side of the entrance gate to the Burying Ground, belonging to Falkland Estate and tenanted by Mrs George Ramsay, had a hole in the garden wall through which a large number of hens kept by her passed into the Burying Ground, and they wished this hole shut up. They further, I gathered, wished a gate which leads from the inside of the Burying Ground entrance to the garden of the property shut or secured."<ref>Letter from George Gavin, Falkland Estate factor to J. & F. Anderson, solicitors, 4 August 1904, ~~uoted~~ in [[Playfair and Burgess]], page 94.</ref>		"I had a call the other day from the Rev. Mr Johnston, the Parish Minister, and Mr Alex Bonthrone, one of the heritors. They explained that there had been a complaint as to the untidy condition of the Burying Ground, situated you will recollect, on the south side of the main road in the town leading to the approach gates, and that the minister, who explained that the grass was high, proposed to have it cut, they further explained however that the tenant of the property on the west side of the entrance gate to the Burying Ground, belonging to Falkland Estate and tenanted by Mrs George Ramsay, had a hole in the garden wall through which a large number of hens kept by her passed into the Burying Ground, and they wished this hole shut up. They further, I gathered, wished a gate which leads from the inside of the Burying Ground entrance to the garden of the property shut or secured."<ref>Letter from [[George Gavin]], Falkland Estate factor to J. & F. Anderson, solicitors, 4 August 1904, quoted in [[Playfair and Burgess]], page 94.</ref>
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	"George Johnston (died 1900) had built up the Lathrisk Estate, and was rumoured, probably without much foundation, to be an eccentric recluse. His ancestors are buried in the Johnston family enclosure in the old burying ground in Falkland, and he himself is commemorated on the stone he erected there."<ref>[[Playfair and Burgess]], page 439.</ref>		"George Johnston (died 1900) had built up the Lathrisk Estate, and was rumoured, probably without much foundation, to be an eccentric recluse. His ancestors are buried in the Johnston family enclosure in the old burying ground in Falkland, and he himself is commemorated on the stone he erected there."<ref>[[Playfair and Burgess]], page 439.</ref>

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	! colspan="2" \| Building summary		! colspan="2" \| Building summary
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	\| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" \| [[File:Old Cemetery gates..JPG\|300px]]		\| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" \| [[File:Old Cemetery gates..JPG\|300px]] The gates
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	\| '''Reference:''' LB31290		\| '''Reference:''' LB31290
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	"I had a call the other day from the Rev. Mr Johnston, the Parish Minister, and Mr Alex Bonthrone, one of the heritors. They explained that there had been a complaint as to the untidy condition of the Burying Ground, situated you will recollect, on the south side of the main road in the town leading to the approach gates, and that the minister, who explained that the grass was high, proposed to have it cut, they further explained however that the tenant of the property on the west side of the entrance gate to the Burying Ground, belonging to Falkland Estate and tenanted by Mrs George Ramsay, had a hole in the garden wall through which a large number of hens kept by her passed into the Burying Ground, and they wished this hole shut up. They further, I gathered, wished a gate which leads from the inside of the Burying Ground entrance to the garden of the property shut or secured."<ref>Letter from George Gavin, Falkland Estate factor to J. & F. Anderson, solicitors, 4 August 1904, uoted in [[Playfair and Burgess]], page 94.</ref>		"I had a call the other day from the Rev. Mr Johnston, the Parish Minister, and Mr Alex Bonthrone, one of the heritors. They explained that there had been a complaint as to the untidy condition of the Burying Ground, situated you will recollect, on the south side of the main road in the town leading to the approach gates, and that the minister, who explained that the grass was high, proposed to have it cut, they further explained however that the tenant of the property on the west side of the entrance gate to the Burying Ground, belonging to Falkland Estate and tenanted by Mrs George Ramsay, had a hole in the garden wall through which a large number of hens kept by her passed into the Burying Ground, and they wished this hole shut up. They further, I gathered, wished a gate which leads from the inside of the Burying Ground entrance to the garden of the property shut or secured."<ref>Letter from George Gavin, Falkland Estate factor to J. & F. Anderson, solicitors, 4 August 1904, uoted in [[Playfair and Burgess]], page 94.</ref>
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	"George Johnston (died 1900) had built up the Lathrisk Estate, and was rumoured, probably without much foundation, to be an eccentric recluse. His ancestors are buried in the Johnston family enclosure in the old burying ground in Falkland, and he himself is commemorated on the stone he erected there."<ref>[[Playfair and Burgess]], page 439.</ref>		"George Johnston (died 1900) had built up the Lathrisk Estate, and was rumoured, probably without much foundation, to be an eccentric recluse. His ancestors are buried in the Johnston family enclosure in the old burying ground in Falkland, and he himself is commemorated on the stone he erected there."<ref>[[Playfair and Burgess]], page 439.</ref>
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	"On the left just short of an old cottage with tiny windows an iron gate is the entrance to Falkland's Old Burial Ground. it was in use for some two centuries from about 1670. Its gravestones, although many are broken and removed from their proper locations, still have decipheral inscriptions and could yet be immensely useful to a local historian. Emilia Geddie's tombstone is on the East Wall.<ref>''[[A Falkland Guide]]'', page 10.</ref>		"On the left just short of an old cottage with tiny windows an iron gate is the entrance to Falkland's Old Burial Ground. it was in use for some two centuries from about 1670. Its gravestones, although many are broken and removed from their proper locations, still have decipheral inscriptions and could yet be immensely useful to a local historian. Emilia Geddie's tombstone is on the East Wall.<ref>''[[A Falkland Guide]]'', page 10.</ref>

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	==~~Gallery~~==		==Further images==
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	~~File:Old Cemetery gates..JPG\|The gates~~
	File:Falkland Old Burial 1 2018.JPG\|General view		File:Falkland Old Burial 1 2018.JPG\|General view
	File:Johnston Aisle.JPG\|Johnston family burial enclosure		File:Johnston Aisle.JPG\|Johnston family burial enclosure

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	\| '''Latitude & longitude''' \|\| 56°15′09″N 3°12′39″W		\| '''Latitude & longitude''' \|\| 56°15′09″N 3°12′39″W
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	!HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31290 HES record for LB31290]</ref>		! colspan=3 \| HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31290 HES record for LB31290]</ref>
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			\| '''Reference:''' LB31290
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	\| '''Address/Site Name'''		\| colspan=3 \| '''Address/Site Name'''
	Graveyard High Street West Port		Graveyard High Street West Port
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	Square gatepiers with moulded caps circa 1840: rubble walled enclosure burials from 1670; a few stones 18th century onwards.		Square gatepiers with moulded caps circa 1840: rubble walled enclosure burials from 1670; a few stones 18th century onwards.
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