# John McKay Seaman Tayport (1796–1893)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1756.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1756

```text
1888
ERECTED
BY
JOHN MCKAY, SEAMAN TAYPORT
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS SON
JOHN
WHO DIED AT TAYPORT 1850 AGED 4 YEARS
AND HIS DAUGHTER MARGARET MORRISON
WHO DIED 25TH NOVEMBER 1869
AGED 19 YEARS.
ALSO HIS WIFE HELEN WANLESS
WHO DIED 3RD JUNE 1885 AGED 69 YEARS
JOHN MCKAY
BORN AT GREENOCK 6TH DECEMBER 1796
DIED AT TAYPORT 1ST JUNE 1893

PEACE
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002503.JPG)

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

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