Simon KnottThe Dunfermline dead. A cluster of 18th and 19th Century headstones in Dunfermline parish kirkyard, Fife. Meanwhile, over the wall...
#MemorialsMonday
2/3 Rev. Ralph Erskine. 'Ordained a parish minister of Dunfermline 7th August 1711, left the Established Church and joined the Secession 18th February 1737'
Dunfermline parish kirkyard. The spires are the City Chambers and the Linen Exchange.
3/3 Its inscription barely there now, the last resting place in Dunfermline kirkyard of David Ferguson, 'first protestant minister of Dunfermline', who died in 1598. As well as fathering nine children, he translated the Book of Proverbs into Scots and rearranged them into alphabetical order!
