Some Monuments in Carnbee Kirkyard in Fife

Carnbee Kirk from the south west. Copyright © J.A. Robertson 2006

Click on the thumbnail images to see the full photographs. The numbers provide links to published transcriptions of the inscriptions.
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01 Thomas TOSH & Sophia HENDERSON	02 John HENDERSON & Mary KINNINMONTH	03 David METHVEN & Helen JAMIESON, Robert METHVEN, Agnes METHVEN
04 The Revd Joseph TAYLOR, Capt. Robert Dunbar TAYLOR, John GOODSIR & Elizabeth TAYLOR	05 The Revd Anstruther TAYLOR, Anne TAYLOR	06 Peter JERVIS & Isabel BROWN, Thomas BROWN, tenant Craigloun, & Mary JERVES
07 Andrew AITKEN & Isabella WHITE	08 Thomas MACKIE & Elizabeth LAING, John MACKIE & Heneretta DINGWALL, James MACKIE & Helen TAYLOR	09 William KIDD, David KIDD & Sophia ROBERTSON, James BAYNE & Margaret KIDD
10 James ELDER & Mary SCOTT, Robert ELDER & Elspeth FORGAN, James ELDER & Isabella ADAMSON	11 R. FYALL	12 Robert METHVEN & Jane WILSON, George METHVEN
13 Robert Gillispie SMYTH of Gibliston	14 John HORSBURGH & Agnes IRELAND, Robert HORSBURGH	15 David LAING & Isabella HENDERSON, Joan Henderson LAING
16 James AITKEN & Margaret JOHNSON, David Macrae AITKEN & Margaret BRUCE	17 Peter JOHNSTONE & Jane ADAMSON Jane JOHNSTONE, John JOHNSTONE, Alexander JOHNSTONE & Jane GRIEVE, Peter JOHNSTONE, Elizabeth Jane Adamson JOHNSTONE	18 James FORGAN & Barbara RAIT, Elizabeth FORGAN, Thomas FORGAN & Isabella LINDSAY, David FORGAN
19 Robert SCOTT & Betsy WILSON	20 Betsy SCOTT	21 John RINTOUL & Jessie SCOTT

Published references to monuments in Carnbee Kirkyard

N.B. There are misreadings, typos & omissions in these publications. The Scottish Genealogy Society's publication is particularly bad, in spite of, or perhaps because of, their 8 proof readers. Do not rely on the published texts.

F = Stuart Farrell, Fife Family History Society Publication No. 15: Monumental Inscriptions, Fife Family History Society, 2000, pages 10-30. Total of 227 inscriptions; also 3 additional inscriptions taken from Jervise.

M = John Fowler Mitchell & Sheila Mitchell, Fifeshire Monumental Inscriptions (Pre-1855), Vol. 1, South East Parishes, Scottish Genealogy Society, Edinburgh, 2001, pages 11-14. Total of 38 inscriptions.

The following list identifies the monuments illustrated above with their numbers in the works of Farrell & the Mitchells.
("--" = not listed):

01. F.105, M.1
02. F.110, M.2A
03. F.129, M.9
04. F.88, M.13
05. F.87, M.14
06. probably F.35 "inscription illegible", M.25
07. F.--, M.--
08. F.40, M.29
09. F.25, M.30
10. F.89, M.16
11. F.80, M.17
12. F.130, M.8
13. F.48, M.--
14. F.98, M.--
15. F.--, M.--
16. F.97, M.
17. F.95, M.--
18. F.9, M.34
19. F.82 (south face), M.15
20. F.82 (north face), M.15
21. F.82 (east face), M.15

Further information about Carnbee for family historians is available at GENUKI Carnbee.