Duncan Livingston, Custom House Officer, Glasgow
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:57 am
There is a headstone in the Cill an Alein burial ground near Aros, Isle of Mull, with the following inscription:
This stone is erected / by / Duncan Livingston / custom house officer Pt Glasgow / in remembrance of his mother / Isabella Campbell / who died 17th April 1822 aged 72 and / his sister / Flora Livingston / who died 10th October 1804 / aged 30.
I have been unable to find likely matches for these Livingstons in the Old Parish Registers indexes, or in ancestry.com trees, so thought I would post here in case someone with information or interest might encounter them. (Online trees do have a Glasgow couple named Duncan Livingston and Mary McPhail who are the correct generation, so this could be a match to the Duncan named -- but I'd want some evidence he was a customs officer.)
The names mentioned:
Isabella Campbell Livingston (1750-1822)
Duncan Livingston (born between ca. 1770 and 1795)
Flora Livingston (ca. 1774-1804)
The transcription was published in
Altera Merces: The Burial Grounds of Pennygown, Gruline, Knock, Cill an Alein in North Mull...[/i] by B. B. Whittaker (Author), 2003.
I've uploaded a headstone image to an ancestry.com tree:
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer ... PUBJs=true
I do not know if they are related to my Livingston ancestors, but this burial ground is the nearest to Lettermore, Isle of Mull, where my ancestors lived, so it seems likely they are kin.
James
This stone is erected / by / Duncan Livingston / custom house officer Pt Glasgow / in remembrance of his mother / Isabella Campbell / who died 17th April 1822 aged 72 and / his sister / Flora Livingston / who died 10th October 1804 / aged 30.
I have been unable to find likely matches for these Livingstons in the Old Parish Registers indexes, or in ancestry.com trees, so thought I would post here in case someone with information or interest might encounter them. (Online trees do have a Glasgow couple named Duncan Livingston and Mary McPhail who are the correct generation, so this could be a match to the Duncan named -- but I'd want some evidence he was a customs officer.)
The names mentioned:
Isabella Campbell Livingston (1750-1822)
Duncan Livingston (born between ca. 1770 and 1795)
Flora Livingston (ca. 1774-1804)
The transcription was published in
Altera Merces: The Burial Grounds of Pennygown, Gruline, Knock, Cill an Alein in North Mull...[/i] by B. B. Whittaker (Author), 2003.
I've uploaded a headstone image to an ancestry.com tree:
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer ... PUBJs=true
I do not know if they are related to my Livingston ancestors, but this burial ground is the nearest to Lettermore, Isle of Mull, where my ancestors lived, so it seems likely they are kin.
James