# Margaret Balfour (1789–1908)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1590.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1590

## Face 1

```text
ERECTED
BY
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARGARET [BALFOUR?]
WHO DIED SEPT 3, 1789 AGED 60 YEARS
ALSO
HER HUSBAND
JOHN KEAY
SHIPMASTER WHO DIED AT SEA
AND OF THEIR SON IN LAW
THOMAS MITCHELL
FARMER GARPIT DIED DEC 28, 1829
ALSO HIS SPOUSE
MARY KEAY
DIED SEPT 11, 1845
JOHN MITCHELL
DIED 23RD DECEMBER 1855
ISABELLA CHRISTIE, WIFE OF JAMES MITCHELL
DIED 6TH NOV 1869 AGED 69 YEARS.
JAMES MITCHELL
DIED 5TH MAY 1873 AGED 75 YEARS.
ALSO THEIR SON THOMAS MITCHELL
DIED AT DERRA DERRA HORTON RIVER,
BARBARA N.S.W. AUSTRALIA 22ND DECEMBER 1894
AND DAUGHTER MARY ISABELLA MITCHELL
DIED 1ST NOVEMBER [1908?] AGED 72 YEARS
```

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## Face 1

Not yet transcribed.

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002322_side2.JPG)

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

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