# David Pryde Ship Owner (1863–1887)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1543.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1543

```text
[1887?]

ERECTED BY
DAVID PRYDE, SHIP OWNER
AND JANET WATT, HIS WIFE
IN MEMORY OF THEIR DAUGHTER.
JANET
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS. 24TH APRIL 1863
AGED 4 YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS.
ALSO DAVID THEIR SON
WHO DIED AT HAVANA OF YELLOW FEVER
ON THE 5TH MAY 1873 IN THE 20TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
DEEPLY REGRETTED.
AND JAMES, THEIR SECOND SON
WHO WAS DROWNED AT AMDLE 24TH MARCH 1879
AGED 22 YEARS.
ALSO HIS MOTHER
JANET HAGGART
WHO DIED 27TH DECEMBER 1875 AGED 73 YEARS
ALSO HIS NEICE
JESSIE WATT
WHO DIED 6TH AUGUST 1879 AGED 10 YEARS.
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002272.JPG)

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

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