Monument record MHG1137 - Cholera Burial Ground, Burn of Houstry

Summary

Small burial ground in which 4 people of the Sutherland family who died of cholera have been interred.

Location

Grid reference Centred ND 1461 3556 (20m by 20m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND13NW
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish LATHERON
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

'Caithness Monumental Inscriptions', pre 1855
Monumental inscription survey completed by A.S.Cowper & I.Ross.
The survey may not include inscription information after 1855 and each inscription transcribed does not give the full details that appear on the stones, abbreviations used. Some ommissions and inacuracies. Published 1992.
J Aitken : 20/12/02 <1>

A walled enclosure 8.4m square and 1.3m high. Within is a grave slab erected by John and George Sutherland in memory of their mother, their grandmother, a sister and an uncle who all died in the period 14th to 17th November 1849. The cause of death was cholera. There have been no other interments.
Visited by OS (J M) 9 November 1982.

Grave Yard OS 6" map, Caithness, 1st ed., (1871) <2>

A small enclosure where four men who had died of cholera were interred about 1849. It has not been used since.
Name Book 1871. <3>

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> Text/Publication/Monograph: A S Cowper & I Ross. 1992. Caithness Monumental Inscriptions, pre 1855. 4.
  • <2> Text/Publication/Volume: George Watson. Caithness Chapel Sites.
  • <3> Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 15, 89.

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Record last edited

Jul 22 2010 11:37AM

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