# James Dykes Shipmaster (1856–1897)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1748.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1748

```text
IN
MEMORY OF
JAMES DYKES, SHIPMASTER
WHO DIED 27TH MAY 1865, AGED 45.
AND HELEN MATHER, HIS WIFE
WHO DIED 8TH FEB 1897, AGED 72.
ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER JEMIMA
WHO DIED 11TH MARCH 1856.
AND THEIR GRANDSON
ALEXANDER GREIG
WHO DIED 21ST JUNE 1873, AGED 4 YEARS.
```

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

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