The Mungo Park family tomb
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The Mungo Park family tomb
Image: © Walter Baxter Taken: 2 Mar 2008
This memorial is in the Old Galashiels Parish Church burial ground between Church Street and Abbotsford Road. The inscription on the front panel is:- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MUNGO PARK, THE CELEBRATED AFRICAN TRAVELLER WHO PERISHED IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA IN 1805, AGED 35. ALSO TO ALICE ANDERSON, HIS WIFE WHO DIED AT EDINR IN 1840, AGED 59. ALSO THEIR ELDEST SON MUNGO, ASSIST SURGEON, E.I.C.S. WHO DIED AT TRICHINOPOLY MADRAS IN 1823, AGED 23, AND THOMAS, THEIR SECOND SON OF THE R.N. WHO DIED IN AFRICA 1827, AGED 24. (Note - Park died in 1806) An inscription on a side panel reads:- HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF ARCHIBALD PARK, TENANT IN FOWLSHIELS, WHO DIED 18TH NOV 1768, AGED 86, AND JEAN JERDON, HIS WIFE DIED 4TH JUNE 1751, AGED 73 ALSO OF MUNGO PARK, TENANT IN FOWLSHIELS, WHO DIED 22ND MAY 1793, AGED 79, AND ELSPETH HISLOP, HIS WIFE MOTHER OF THE AFRICAN TRAVELLER DIED AT FOWLSHIELS 28TH MARCH 1817, AGED 74, ALSO THEIR YOUNGEST SON JAMES, DIED 11TH AUGT 1784, AGED 4(?) Another side panel reads:- AND OF WALTER PARK, WHO DIED 14TH JANY, 1748 AGED 27 YEARS. JOHN PARK, TENANT IN WILLIAMHOPE, DIED 23RD SEP 1771, AGED 62.
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Image Location
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55.61217
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