# Janet Aitken (1823–1944)

Western Cemetery, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. Stone 637.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/dundee-western-cemetery/637

```text
SACRED
TO
THE MEMORY OF
JANET AITKEN,
WIFE OF WILLIAM Y. SHAFTO,
INLAND REVENUE, GRANDTULLY
BORN AT CUPAR FIFE 22 FEB. [1823?]
DIED AT GRANDTULLY COTTAGE
GRANDTULLY, PERTHSHIRE
2 JUNE 1888.
SONS
WILLIAM MELVILLE SHAFTO,
BORN AT CUPAR 9 JULY 1855,
DIED AT CUPAR 30 JULY 1855.
ROBERT SHAFTO,
BORN AT CUPAR 26 AUG. 1856,
DIED AT DUNDEE 29 DEC. 1856,
AND INTERRED OPPOSITE HERE
WILLIAM SHAFTO,
MERCHANT ASSISTANT,
DIED 21 AUGUST 1898
AT CALCUTTA, INDIA,
AGED 40.
THE ABOVE WILLIAM Y. SHAFTO
BORN AT DURHAM AND DIED AT ABERFELDY
15 JANUARY 1915, AGED 88 YEARS.

HERE ALSO LIE
ELIZABETH MELVILLE SHAFTO 1860 - 1944
AND SARAH MARGARET SHAFTO, 1864 - [?]
DAUGHTERS OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM YEAL SHAFTO

"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO
LOVE IN THE LORD."
```

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Square brackets mark uncertain readings. The title is guessed from the inscription.

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