Mausoleum of the Rouets of Auchendennan-Rhie

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 7 Jul 2013

(See Image for context.) The broken down near wall allows a view into this partly ruined structure: two tablets can be seen on its far wall. The top of the larger tablet, on the left, has flaked off. It is unfortunate that part of the text of the tablets has gone, but the taller tablet on the left was erected by Miss Mary Rainey Rouet of Bel-Retiro to the memory of her mother, Mrs Elizabeth Sarah Rainey Rouet (d. 23rd March 1834), relict of Daniel Rainey. The smaller tablet on the right commemorates Mary Rainey Rouet herself, "hastily summoned from time to eternity" on the 6th of May, 1841. "In the midst of life we are in death". The full text of the inscriptions on these tablets (including the parts that have flaked away) can be found on page 159 of Donald MacLeod's "Historic Families ... of the Lennox" (1891). The lands of Auchendennan-Rhie passed through several hands after the death of Miss Rouet, before they were acquired by George Martin of Auchendennan: Image (that item also comments on the name "Bel-Retiro", mentioned above). See also Image (located in a different cemetery); the first wife of Rear Admiral Smollett, who is discussed in that item, was a daughter of William Rouet of Auchendennan.

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