Each result will give you a transcript of your ancestor’s burial monument. Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society created the transcripts. Each transcript will vary depending on the age of the monument and its legibility. Below is a list of what you may find in the transcript.
Place and county
Inscription –you may discover the individual’s age at the time of death, who else is buried at the same site (including their ages and death dates), and who erected the monument.
OS grid reference – this reference will identify a position on all ordnance survey maps
Source’s website – a link to the Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society website
The Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society have transcribed monumental inscriptions from three Scottish counties: Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, and Kincardineshire, also known as ‘the Mearns’. A full list of parishes is available in the Useful links and resources section. All the counties are located in the northeast of Scotland. Monumental inscriptions are memorials placed on a person’s grave or burial place. They vary in size and in how much is recorded about the person. Monumental inscriptions are an excellent resource for family historians because many record the names of other relatives such as a spouse, children or parents, as well as their birth and death dates.
For example, the record for Katherine Alexander holds six additional names: Katherine’s husband, two daughters, two sons, and daughter-in-law. Katherine’s eldest son was Captain Harry Charles Birnie. The inscription for Captain Birnie reads, ‘Birnie, DSO, RD, RNR, elder brother of Trinity House and commodore of ocean convoys, died gallantly in North Atlantic through enemy action 9 March 1943 aged 60’. The facts found in the inscription enabled us to find a death record for Harry Birnie in Findmypast’s British nationals armed forces deaths 1796-2005. Additionally, Birnie was found in the 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census living in Aberdour with his parents and siblings.