View of gravestone for James Anderson/Adamson and Elizabeth Robertson, dated 1751, in the churchyard of Abernyte Parish Church.

Description View of gravestone for James Anderson/Adamson and Elizabeth Robertson, dated 1751, in the churchyard of Abernyte Parish Church.

Date 1987

Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1686913

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 34494

Scope and Content Gravestone of James Adamson and Elizabeth Robertson, Parish Church and Churchyard, Abernyte, Perth & Kinross This gravestone features a winged soul (symbol of the spirit ascending to Heaven after death) wearing a periwig, surrounded by a border incised with a foliate design. Below the soul is a carving of a pair of scales, emblem of a merchant. The lower panel features emblems of mortality, including an incised hourglass and crossed bones, and a relief-carving of a skull and crossed bones. Scottish gravestones feature a wealth of imagery and symbolic devices which represent trade emblems, symbols of death and resurrection, and Biblical scenes. They offer a fascinating insight into how our ancestors saw themselves and how they wanted to be remembered, as well as providing a store of information for people interested in family or local history, and folk art. This gravestone commemorates James Adamson, who died in 1725, and Elizabeth Robertson, who died in 1748. It is inscribed: '1751/THIS STONE WAS ERECTED/DAVID ADAMSON SON TO/BY JAMES ADAMSON AND ELIZABETH/ROBERTSON SOMETIME INDWELLERS/IN ABERNYT. HE DIED JUNth 18/1725 AGED 56 YEARS & SHE/DIED JUNth 1748 AGED/59 YEARS'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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