{
  "id": 1732,
  "title": "James Mather Shipmaster",
  "years": "1811–1856",
  "url": "https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1732",
  "place": {
    "slug": "tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery",
    "name": "Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery",
    "type": "cemetery",
    "town": "Tayport",
    "county": "Fife",
    "country": "Scotland",
    "url": "https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery",
    "stones": 228,
    "inscriptions": 286,
    "transcribed": 232
  },
  "inscriptions": [
    {
      "face": 1,
      "text": "1831\nERECTED\nBY\nJAMES MATHER, SHIPMASTER\nIN MEMORY OF HIS OLDEST SON\nJAMES\nWHO DIED 12TH JAN 1831\nAGED 11 YEARS\nALSO HIS FATHER\nJAMES MATHER\nDIED 4TH JUNE [1811?] AGED 72 YEARS\nALSO\nHIS SON ARCHIBALD\nWHO WAS DROWNED AT HANBURGH\n[?] 1850 AGED [26?] YEARS.\n[?]",
      "photos": [
        "https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002479-side1.JPG"
      ]
    },
    {
      "face": 1,
      "text": "IN MEMORY OF\nTHOMAS MATHER, SHIPMASTER\nWHO WAS DROWNED IN THE RIVER GALLEGOS\nSOUTH AMERICA 23RD OCT 1850 AGED 28 YEARS\nAND OF HIS DAUGHTER JESSIE\nWHO DIED 5TH JAN 1851 AGED 3 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS\nALEXANDER MATHER\nSHIPMASTER\nSON OF JAMES MATHER JUNR\nWHO DIED 23RD NOV [?]\nAGED 30 YEARS\nALSO CHRISTINA MELVILLE\nSPOUSE OF JAMES MATHER [SENR?]\nWHO DIED 13TH JAN 1856 AGED 88 YEARS",
      "photos": [
        "https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002479-side2.JPG"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "licence": "Transcriptions CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit kirkyards.scot",
  "notes": {
    "title": "Guessed from the first name in the inscription; may be wrong.",
    "uncertain": "Square brackets mark uncertain readings, e.g. [1877?].",
    "years": "Earliest and latest years appearing in the inscription."
  }
}