# Catherine Baird (1866)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1764.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1764

```text
ERECTED
BY
CATHERINE BAIRD
IN MEMORY OF HER HUSAND
JAMES BLACK
SHIPMASTER
WHO DIED IN COOKS STRAITS
NEW ZEALAND
9TH SEPT 1866 AGED 41 YEARS
ALSO HER DAUGHTER
RACHEL
WHO DIED 31ST MARCH 1866
AGED 15 YEARS

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD THAT DIE IN THE LORD.

WEEP NOT FOR ME I WILL MEET YOU IN HEAVEN.
```

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

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