The gravestone of Matthew Turnbull
This is one of two stones in this kirkyard that mark the resting place of nieces of Highland Mary; for the other, see
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The gravestone of Matthew Turnbull is located in the part of the kirkyard of
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The inscription notes that Matthew Turnbull died on the 13th of November 1891, aged 85, and that he had been Manager of Cordale until 1859. This is a reference to the Cordale Print Works, which were located on Cordale Point; see
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The inscription also mentions "Ann Anderson, his beloved wife, who died 11th January 1859 aged 51 years"; she was a niece of Highland Mary, for whom see the
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As for the Turnbull family named here, they were remembered in the name of Turnbull's Loan ("Trummel's Loan" in speech; see
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Donald MacLeod, in his "Historic Families ... of the Lennox" (1891), devotes a couple of pages to their history. He writes that they originally came from Bedrule (
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