For those wishing to visit the grave, head along the path to the right of St. Michael’s church, towards the Robert Burns Mausoleum. Carry on the path to the left of the Mausoleum, and continue to the plot of graves behind St. Michael’s Church. The grave is on the right hand side of the plot, if you have your back to the church. It is some ways down; if memory serves, it is at least halfway down the plot. There are two trees of considerable height, standing opposite one another. The tree housing the gravestone of James Townsend and Margaret Kay, is next to the grave of “Donald, son of John Mitchell, baker Annan” who died in 1872. Happy hunting!
Biography of James Townsend, and family members:
James Townsend was born to Jane McLauchlan (sometimes given as McLachlan) and William Townsend in about 1824, in Dumfries, Scotland. At that time, Dumfries was part of the historic county of Dumfriesshire, now known as Dumfries and Galloway county. James is known to have had at least one sibling, a brother named John Townsend.
A journeyman shoemaker by trade, James Townsend married Catherine Mowat Kay at Greenside Parish Church of Edinburgh, Scotland on 6 May 1853. Catherine, then 31 years of age, was the eldest child of Margaret Smith and Peter Kay of Edinburgh. She was born in Madras, India, where her family resided for a few years owing to her father's employment as a soldier of the Honourable East India Company. The couple were blessed with four children: three sons and a daughter.
It seems that James and his family did a fair bit of moving around in southern Scotland and northern England in the course of his life. Over the years, we can follow the family paper trail from Dumfries to Glasgow to Edinburgh to Rochdale in England; then back to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dumfries again.
The life of James Townsend came full circle in the autumn of 1871, when he drew in his last laboured breath on the patch of earth where he took his very first. He died in Dumfries on 28 October 1871, from the wasting respiratory condition “phthisis”, now known more commonly as tuberculosis. He was laid to rest in St. Michael’s churchyard, in a joint grave with his wife’s mother, Margaret Smith Kay.
Family of James Townsend:
Father: William Townsend, born about 1781 to ____ Townsend, a miller by trade, and Janet Ronald. William Townsend died 10 May 1864 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Mother: Jane McLauchlan. She died before 1864.
Siblings: John Townsend, born about 1806 in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire (now East Lothian), Scotland. A skinner or tanner by trade, his wife was named Mary. He and his family were longstanding residents of Dumfries, and lived on Nith Place for decades.
Wife: Catherine Mowat Kay, who was born 7 January 1822 at St. Thomas Mount, Madras, India to Peter Kay (then a gunner in the 2nd Battalion Madras Honourable East India Company Artillery) and Margaret Smith of Edinburgh. Catherine was their eldest child, and returned to Scotland with them in 1829. After the death of her husband James Townsend, Catherine moved to Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. She died there shortly after her 79th birthday, on 7 February 1901, in Mossley.
Children: William Townsend was born 11 Feb 1856 in High Church, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At age 15, just months before his father’s death in 1871, William was recorded in the census as being employed as a joiner. A few years later, at the time of his marriage with Elizabeth Mary Gill on 4 January 1874 in Heaton Norris, Lancashire, William was employed as a fireman (which likely means he is shovelling coal or stoking a boiler, rather than putting out fires). It is interesting to note that at the time of his marriage, William was yet a month shy of his 18th birthday, but the slightly inflated age of 19 was recorded on the books, as he made wedding vows with his 21 year old bride. He is also the only member of the wedding party who is able to give his signature, with his wife and both witnesses leaving an “x” in the register as their mark. The only one of the Townsend children to remain in the United Kingdom, William was a resident of the Lancashire region for the rest of his life, dying in Ashon-under-Lyne in December of 1907.
Margaret Townsend made her entry into the world on 21 December 1857 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. As of yet, we know little about her childhood, other than that she was in England with her mother at the time of the 1861 census, but was absent from the family home at the time of the 1871 census. Whether she was employed, attending school, or staying with relatives or friends elsewhere is unknown. What is apparent is that after her father’s death in 1871, Maggie Townsend maintains a presence in Dumfries, being married there on 4 February 1879, to James Alexander MacLagan, a 25-year-old bookkeeper. Born in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, James A. MacLagan’s parents both originally hailed from Perthshire. The marriage register records that they were married "after the forms of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland". This is worthy of note because James Alexander became a Presbyterian minister in his later years. The newlyweds embarked to the U.S.A. shortly after their marriage, and Margaret gave birth to their first child, Elizabeth, in New York State. They swiftly moved on to Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where they put down deep roots, and some are their descendants still make their home in Illinois to this day. The mother of five children, Margaret "Maggie" Townsend passed away in 1934 at the age of 76, and she and her husband James are buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
James Townsend was born 5 May 1862 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He moved to Lancashire, England with his mother after the death of his father, James, and appears on the 1881 census at the family home in Ashton-Under-Lyne. At some point, he emigrated to America and settled in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where he was married to Christine Tasker on 25 April 1895. He died at the age of 70, on 21 November 1932 in Chicago, and he and his wife Christine are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Chicago, as well as their daughter Florence Ruth Garty.
John Townsend is the only one of the Townsend children born in Edinburgh, where he came into the world on 24 April 1864. His father died when he was only 7 years old, and by the following year his mother had established a home for the family in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England where John lived for at least the next decade of his life. We find him living with his mother, older brother, and young nephew on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne in the 1881 census, in which the 16-year-old John is recorded as being employed as a spindle maker. At some point, like his brother and sister, he crosses the ocean to the U.S.A., and is employed in Chicago, Cook, Illinois as a machinist. He died 28 Sept 1907 in Chicago, and is buried in Rosehill Cemetery.
Written by Auralie Jones, a 4th great-granddaughter of James Townsend, through his daughter Margaret Townsend.
Mention of this grave is made in the following book, which can be found in the library of the public research centre of the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society:
“The list of husbands deceased, together with, in many instances, their departed children, comprises the following:...James Townsend, shoemaker, died 28th October 1871, aged 47, with Margaret Kay, his mother-in-law, died 11th September 1871, aged 68;…"
Source:
Memorial of St. Michael’s: The Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries. By William McDowall; Published Edinburgh, Adam and Black, 1876. Pages 412-413.
Biography of James Townsend, and family members:
James Townsend was born to Jane McLauchlan (sometimes given as McLachlan) and William Townsend in about 1824, in Dumfries, Scotland. At that time, Dumfries was part of the historic county of Dumfriesshire, now known as Dumfries and Galloway county. James is known to have had at least one sibling, a brother named John Townsend.
A journeyman shoemaker by trade, James Townsend married Catherine Mowat Kay at Greenside Parish Church of Edinburgh, Scotland on 6 May 1853. Catherine, then 31 years of age, was the eldest child of Margaret Smith and Peter Kay of Edinburgh. She was born in Madras, India, where her family resided for a few years owing to her father's employment as a soldier of the Honourable East India Company. The couple were blessed with four children: three sons and a daughter.
It seems that James and his family did a fair bit of moving around in southern Scotland and northern England in the course of his life. Over the years, we can follow the family paper trail from Dumfries to Glasgow to Edinburgh to Rochdale in England; then back to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dumfries again.
The life of James Townsend came full circle in the autumn of 1871, when he drew in his last laboured breath on the patch of earth where he took his very first. He died in Dumfries on 28 October 1871, from the wasting respiratory condition “phthisis”, now known more commonly as tuberculosis. He was laid to rest in St. Michael’s churchyard, in a joint grave with his wife’s mother, Margaret Smith Kay.
Family of James Townsend:
Father: William Townsend, born about 1781 to ____ Townsend, a miller by trade, and Janet Ronald. William Townsend died 10 May 1864 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Mother: Jane McLauchlan. She died before 1864.
Siblings: John Townsend, born about 1806 in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire (now East Lothian), Scotland. A skinner or tanner by trade, his wife was named Mary. He and his family were longstanding residents of Dumfries, and lived on Nith Place for decades.
Wife: Catherine Mowat Kay, who was born 7 January 1822 at St. Thomas Mount, Madras, India to Peter Kay (then a gunner in the 2nd Battalion Madras Honourable East India Company Artillery) and Margaret Smith of Edinburgh. Catherine was their eldest child, and returned to Scotland with them in 1829. After the death of her husband James Townsend, Catherine moved to Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. She died there shortly after her 79th birthday, on 7 February 1901, in Mossley.
Children: William Townsend was born 11 Feb 1856 in High Church, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At age 15, just months before his father’s death in 1871, William was recorded in the census as being employed as a joiner. A few years later, at the time of his marriage with Elizabeth Mary Gill on 4 January 1874 in Heaton Norris, Lancashire, William was employed as a fireman (which likely means he is shovelling coal or stoking a boiler, rather than putting out fires). It is interesting to note that at the time of his marriage, William was yet a month shy of his 18th birthday, but the slightly inflated age of 19 was recorded on the books, as he made wedding vows with his 21 year old bride. He is also the only member of the wedding party who is able to give his signature, with his wife and both witnesses leaving an “x” in the register as their mark. The only one of the Townsend children to remain in the United Kingdom, William was a resident of the Lancashire region for the rest of his life, dying in Ashon-under-Lyne in December of 1907.
Margaret Townsend made her entry into the world on 21 December 1857 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. As of yet, we know little about her childhood, other than that she was in England with her mother at the time of the 1861 census, but was absent from the family home at the time of the 1871 census. Whether she was employed, attending school, or staying with relatives or friends elsewhere is unknown. What is apparent is that after her father’s death in 1871, Maggie Townsend maintains a presence in Dumfries, being married there on 4 February 1879, to James Alexander MacLagan, a 25-year-old bookkeeper. Born in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, James A. MacLagan’s parents both originally hailed from Perthshire. The marriage register records that they were married "after the forms of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland". This is worthy of note because James Alexander became a Presbyterian minister in his later years. The newlyweds embarked to the U.S.A. shortly after their marriage, and Margaret gave birth to their first child, Elizabeth, in New York State. They swiftly moved on to Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where they put down deep roots, and some are their descendants still make their home in Illinois to this day. The mother of five children, Margaret "Maggie" Townsend passed away in 1934 at the age of 76, and she and her husband James are buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
James Townsend was born 5 May 1862 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He moved to Lancashire, England with his mother after the death of his father, James, and appears on the 1881 census at the family home in Ashton-Under-Lyne. At some point, he emigrated to America and settled in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where he was married to Christine Tasker on 25 April 1895. He died at the age of 70, on 21 November 1932 in Chicago, and he and his wife Christine are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Chicago, as well as their daughter Florence Ruth Garty.
John Townsend is the only one of the Townsend children born in Edinburgh, where he came into the world on 24 April 1864. His father died when he was only 7 years old, and by the following year his mother had established a home for the family in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England where John lived for at least the next decade of his life. We find him living with his mother, older brother, and young nephew on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne in the 1881 census, in which the 16-year-old John is recorded as being employed as a spindle maker. At some point, like his brother and sister, he crosses the ocean to the U.S.A., and is employed in Chicago, Cook, Illinois as a machinist. He died 28 Sept 1907 in Chicago, and is buried in Rosehill Cemetery.
Written by Auralie Jones, a 4th great-granddaughter of James Townsend, through his daughter Margaret Townsend.
Mention of this grave is made in the following book, which can be found in the library of the public research centre of the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society:
“The list of husbands deceased, together with, in many instances, their departed children, comprises the following:...James Townsend, shoemaker, died 28th October 1871, aged 47, with Margaret Kay, his mother-in-law, died 11th September 1871, aged 68;…"
Source:
Memorial of St. Michael’s: The Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries. By William McDowall; Published Edinburgh, Adam and Black, 1876. Pages 412-413.
For those wishing to visit the grave, head along the path to the right of St. Michael’s church, towards the Robert Burns Mausoleum. Carry on the path to the left of the Mausoleum, and continue to the plot of graves behind St. Michael’s Church. The grave is on the right hand side of the plot, if you have your back to the church. It is some ways down; if memory serves, it is at least halfway down the plot. There are two trees of considerable height, standing opposite one another. The tree housing the gravestone of James Townsend and Margaret Kay, is next to the grave of “Donald, son of John Mitchell, baker Annan” who died in 1872. Happy hunting!
Biography of James Townsend, and family members:
James Townsend was born to Jane McLauchlan (sometimes given as McLachlan) and William Townsend in about 1824, in Dumfries, Scotland. At that time, Dumfries was part of the historic county of Dumfriesshire, now known as Dumfries and Galloway county. James is known to have had at least one sibling, a brother named John Townsend.
A journeyman shoemaker by trade, James Townsend married Catherine Mowat Kay at Greenside Parish Church of Edinburgh, Scotland on 6 May 1853. Catherine, then 31 years of age, was the eldest child of Margaret Smith and Peter Kay of Edinburgh. She was born in Madras, India, where her family resided for a few years owing to her father's employment as a soldier of the Honourable East India Company. The couple were blessed with four children: three sons and a daughter.
It seems that James and his family did a fair bit of moving around in southern Scotland and northern England in the course of his life. Over the years, we can follow the family paper trail from Dumfries to Glasgow to Edinburgh to Rochdale in England; then back to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dumfries again.
The life of James Townsend came full circle in the autumn of 1871, when he drew in his last laboured breath on the patch of earth where he took his very first. He died in Dumfries on 28 October 1871, from the wasting respiratory condition “phthisis”, now known more commonly as tuberculosis. He was laid to rest in St. Michael’s churchyard, in a joint grave with his wife’s mother, Margaret Smith Kay.
Family of James Townsend:
Father: William Townsend, born about 1781 to ____ Townsend, a miller by trade, and Janet Ronald. William Townsend died 10 May 1864 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Mother: Jane McLauchlan. She died before 1864.
Siblings: John Townsend, born about 1806 in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire (now East Lothian), Scotland. A skinner or tanner by trade, his wife was named Mary. He and his family were longstanding residents of Dumfries, and lived on Nith Place for decades.
Wife: Catherine Mowat Kay, who was born 7 January 1822 at St. Thomas Mount, Madras, India to Peter Kay (then a gunner in the 2nd Battalion Madras Honourable East India Company Artillery) and Margaret Smith of Edinburgh. Catherine was their eldest child, and returned to Scotland with them in 1829. After the death of her husband James Townsend, Catherine moved to Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. She died there shortly after her 79th birthday, on 7 February 1901, in Mossley.
Children: William Townsend was born 11 Feb 1856 in High Church, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At age 15, just months before his father’s death in 1871, William was recorded in the census as being employed as a joiner. A few years later, at the time of his marriage with Elizabeth Mary Gill on 4 January 1874 in Heaton Norris, Lancashire, William was employed as a fireman (which likely means he is shovelling coal or stoking a boiler, rather than putting out fires). It is interesting to note that at the time of his marriage, William was yet a month shy of his 18th birthday, but the slightly inflated age of 19 was recorded on the books, as he made wedding vows with his 21 year old bride. He is also the only member of the wedding party who is able to give his signature, with his wife and both witnesses leaving an “x” in the register as their mark. The only one of the Townsend children to remain in the United Kingdom, William was a resident of the Lancashire region for the rest of his life, dying in Ashon-under-Lyne in December of 1907.
Margaret Townsend made her entry into the world on 21 December 1857 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. As of yet, we know little about her childhood, other than that she was in England with her mother at the time of the 1861 census, but was absent from the family home at the time of the 1871 census. Whether she was employed, attending school, or staying with relatives or friends elsewhere is unknown. What is apparent is that after her father’s death in 1871, Maggie Townsend maintains a presence in Dumfries, being married there on 4 February 1879, to James Alexander MacLagan, a 25-year-old bookkeeper. Born in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, James A. MacLagan’s parents both originally hailed from Perthshire. The marriage register records that they were married "after the forms of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland". This is worthy of note because James Alexander became a Presbyterian minister in his later years. The newlyweds embarked to the U.S.A. shortly after their marriage, and Margaret gave birth to their first child, Elizabeth, in New York State. They swiftly moved on to Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where they put down deep roots, and some are their descendants still make their home in Illinois to this day. The mother of five children, Margaret "Maggie" Townsend passed away in 1934 at the age of 76, and she and her husband James are buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
James Townsend was born 5 May 1862 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He moved to Lancashire, England with his mother after the death of his father, James, and appears on the 1881 census at the family home in Ashton-Under-Lyne. At some point, he emigrated to America and settled in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where he was married to Christine Tasker on 25 April 1895. He died at the age of 70, on 21 November 1932 in Chicago, and he and his wife Christine are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Chicago, as well as their daughter Florence Ruth Garty.
John Townsend is the only one of the Townsend children born in Edinburgh, where he came into the world on 24 April 1864. His father died when he was only 7 years old, and by the following year his mother had established a home for the family in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England where John lived for at least the next decade of his life. We find him living with his mother, older brother, and young nephew on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne in the 1881 census, in which the 16-year-old John is recorded as being employed as a spindle maker. At some point, like his brother and sister, he crosses the ocean to the U.S.A., and is employed in Chicago, Cook, Illinois as a machinist. He died 28 Sept 1907 in Chicago, and is buried in Rosehill Cemetery.
Written by Auralie Jones, a 4th great-granddaughter of James Townsend, through his daughter Margaret Townsend.
Mention of this grave is made in the following book, which can be found in the library of the public research centre of the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society:
“The list of husbands deceased, together with, in many instances, their departed children, comprises the following:...James Townsend, shoemaker, died 28th October 1871, aged 47, with Margaret Kay, his mother-in-law, died 11th September 1871, aged 68;…"
Source:
Memorial of St. Michael’s: The Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries. By William McDowall; Published Edinburgh, Adam and Black, 1876. Pages 412-413.
Biography of James Townsend, and family members:
James Townsend was born to Jane McLauchlan (sometimes given as McLachlan) and William Townsend in about 1824, in Dumfries, Scotland. At that time, Dumfries was part of the historic county of Dumfriesshire, now known as Dumfries and Galloway county. James is known to have had at least one sibling, a brother named John Townsend.
A journeyman shoemaker by trade, James Townsend married Catherine Mowat Kay at Greenside Parish Church of Edinburgh, Scotland on 6 May 1853. Catherine, then 31 years of age, was the eldest child of Margaret Smith and Peter Kay of Edinburgh. She was born in Madras, India, where her family resided for a few years owing to her father's employment as a soldier of the Honourable East India Company. The couple were blessed with four children: three sons and a daughter.
It seems that James and his family did a fair bit of moving around in southern Scotland and northern England in the course of his life. Over the years, we can follow the family paper trail from Dumfries to Glasgow to Edinburgh to Rochdale in England; then back to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dumfries again.
The life of James Townsend came full circle in the autumn of 1871, when he drew in his last laboured breath on the patch of earth where he took his very first. He died in Dumfries on 28 October 1871, from the wasting respiratory condition “phthisis”, now known more commonly as tuberculosis. He was laid to rest in St. Michael’s churchyard, in a joint grave with his wife’s mother, Margaret Smith Kay.
Family of James Townsend:
Father: William Townsend, born about 1781 to ____ Townsend, a miller by trade, and Janet Ronald. William Townsend died 10 May 1864 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Mother: Jane McLauchlan. She died before 1864.
Siblings: John Townsend, born about 1806 in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire (now East Lothian), Scotland. A skinner or tanner by trade, his wife was named Mary. He and his family were longstanding residents of Dumfries, and lived on Nith Place for decades.
Wife: Catherine Mowat Kay, who was born 7 January 1822 at St. Thomas Mount, Madras, India to Peter Kay (then a gunner in the 2nd Battalion Madras Honourable East India Company Artillery) and Margaret Smith of Edinburgh. Catherine was their eldest child, and returned to Scotland with them in 1829. After the death of her husband James Townsend, Catherine moved to Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. She died there shortly after her 79th birthday, on 7 February 1901, in Mossley.
Children: William Townsend was born 11 Feb 1856 in High Church, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At age 15, just months before his father’s death in 1871, William was recorded in the census as being employed as a joiner. A few years later, at the time of his marriage with Elizabeth Mary Gill on 4 January 1874 in Heaton Norris, Lancashire, William was employed as a fireman (which likely means he is shovelling coal or stoking a boiler, rather than putting out fires). It is interesting to note that at the time of his marriage, William was yet a month shy of his 18th birthday, but the slightly inflated age of 19 was recorded on the books, as he made wedding vows with his 21 year old bride. He is also the only member of the wedding party who is able to give his signature, with his wife and both witnesses leaving an “x” in the register as their mark. The only one of the Townsend children to remain in the United Kingdom, William was a resident of the Lancashire region for the rest of his life, dying in Ashon-under-Lyne in December of 1907.
Margaret Townsend made her entry into the world on 21 December 1857 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. As of yet, we know little about her childhood, other than that she was in England with her mother at the time of the 1861 census, but was absent from the family home at the time of the 1871 census. Whether she was employed, attending school, or staying with relatives or friends elsewhere is unknown. What is apparent is that after her father’s death in 1871, Maggie Townsend maintains a presence in Dumfries, being married there on 4 February 1879, to James Alexander MacLagan, a 25-year-old bookkeeper. Born in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, James A. MacLagan’s parents both originally hailed from Perthshire. The marriage register records that they were married "after the forms of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland". This is worthy of note because James Alexander became a Presbyterian minister in his later years. The newlyweds embarked to the U.S.A. shortly after their marriage, and Margaret gave birth to their first child, Elizabeth, in New York State. They swiftly moved on to Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where they put down deep roots, and some are their descendants still make their home in Illinois to this day. The mother of five children, Margaret "Maggie" Townsend passed away in 1934 at the age of 76, and she and her husband James are buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
James Townsend was born 5 May 1862 in Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He moved to Lancashire, England with his mother after the death of his father, James, and appears on the 1881 census at the family home in Ashton-Under-Lyne. At some point, he emigrated to America and settled in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, where he was married to Christine Tasker on 25 April 1895. He died at the age of 70, on 21 November 1932 in Chicago, and he and his wife Christine are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Chicago, as well as their daughter Florence Ruth Garty.
John Townsend is the only one of the Townsend children born in Edinburgh, where he came into the world on 24 April 1864. His father died when he was only 7 years old, and by the following year his mother had established a home for the family in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England where John lived for at least the next decade of his life. We find him living with his mother, older brother, and young nephew on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne in the 1881 census, in which the 16-year-old John is recorded as being employed as a spindle maker. At some point, like his brother and sister, he crosses the ocean to the U.S.A., and is employed in Chicago, Cook, Illinois as a machinist. He died 28 Sept 1907 in Chicago, and is buried in Rosehill Cemetery.
Written by Auralie Jones, a 4th great-granddaughter of James Townsend, through his daughter Margaret Townsend.
Mention of this grave is made in the following book, which can be found in the library of the public research centre of the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society:
“The list of husbands deceased, together with, in many instances, their departed children, comprises the following:...James Townsend, shoemaker, died 28th October 1871, aged 47, with Margaret Kay, his mother-in-law, died 11th September 1871, aged 68;…"
Source:
Memorial of St. Michael’s: The Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries. By William McDowall; Published Edinburgh, Adam and Black, 1876. Pages 412-413.
Inscription
In memory of James Townsend, who died 28th October 1871, aged 47 years, Also Margret Kay, mother- in-law of the above, who died 11th Septr 1871, aged 68 years.
Gravesite Details
At the time these photos were taken, in July of 2017, the headstone was completely concealed within the branches of a large tree.
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