Surnames: MACPHADYEN

KT 003

IN MEMORY

OF

JOHN MACPHADYEN

WHO DIES 27TH NOV 1816 AGED 90 YEARS

ALSO HIS SPOUSE JANNET WHO

DIED 19TH FEB 1816 AGED 71/91 YEARS

ERECTED BY THEIR SON

ALLAN MACPHADYEN

IN REMEBRANCE OF DUTIFUL AND

AFFECTIONATE PARENTS

Notes: This is not such an old stone compared to the other tabletop stones found in this graveyard.

Allan who erected the stone was a well to do man. He lived in Scarinish and for many years had tenancy of the Scarinish Hotel. Allan ferried rocks from Mull for 7 years, for the Skerryvore Lighthouse so would have met and possibly knew the stonemasons who may have made this stone for him as it has a style of the stonemasons stones that can be seen at Soroby.
Skerryvore was built in the 1840’s so if these dates of death are correct, and they may not be as they are very hard to read this stone was erected at least 20 years after his parents death.