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Aberdeen, Kingswells, Friends' Burial Ground
Burial Ground (17th Century)
Site Name Aberdeen, Kingswells, Friends' Burial Ground
Classification Burial Ground (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kingswells House; Kingswells Home Farm; Quakers' Burial Ground
Canmore ID 19311
Site Number NJ80NE 15
NGR NJ 85668 06646
NGR Description Centred NJ 85668 06646
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19311
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Newhills
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ80NE 15 85668 06646
(NJ 8567 0664) Friends' Burial Ground (Disused) (NAT)
OS 6" map (1901)
See also NJ80NE 16.
The Quaker's burial ground stands on a hillside near Kingswell House. It is surrounded by a rough wall and planted with trees. 'There are no memorial stones but a plan exists'. It was set up by Alexander Jaffrey who died in 1673 (J Cruickshank 1934) and is now under the care of the County Council.
J Cruickshank 1959
A small featureless enclosure as described by the foregoing authorities.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 6 November 1961.
This small burial-ground is situated about 520m WNW of Kingswells Home Farm (NJ80NE 14.01). Rectangular on plan, it measures 23.8m from NNE to SSW by 18m transversely within a drystone wall. There is a blocked entrance 1.4m wide in the ESE side; chamfered jambs are visible in the lower two courses of the wall at the entrance, and a third has been reused in the fabric of the wall a little to the S. No graves or funerary monuments were visible within the interior on the date of visit, but a plaque on a post set into the enclosure wall on the SSW bears the legend: 'Kingswells Quaker Burial Ground | Here were buried a number of Quakers | including | Alexander Jaffrey of Kingswells | Provost of Aberdeen 1673 | Sarah Cant his spouse 1673 | James Forbes of Bervie 1682 | Alexander Skene of Newtyle | Baille of Aberdeen 1693 | Andrew Jaffrey | 4th Laird of Kingswells 1726 | Robert Melvin Weaver 1808.'
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, JRS), 17 March 1997.
Friends' Burial Ground [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.
