Location
Cowie Kirkyard, Stonehaven
Cowie, Stonehaven
OS Map Reference
NO 884 874
Description
A variety of 18th and 19th century tombstones, adorned with ships and anchors, in memory of seamen and fishermen many of whom lost their lives at sea and often their wives and children. Some also bear memento mori symbols such as the hourglass. Most of the boats illustrated are open fishing boats but the fourth photograph shows a sarcophagus style tomb with a relief carving of a 3 masted ship in full sail. The top photograph showing a stone to David Adams also commemorates his seven children but has a blank where the inscription to his spouse was intended as does the related 'blacksmith's stone'. It is sad to think of that the likeliest explanation is that outliving their husbands and children these women had no survivors to order or pay for the inscriptions.
Era
Various
Related Artefacts
- Cowie Chapel Child's Memorial Book
- Cowie Chapel farmers's tombs
- Cowie Chapel Gardner tomb
- Cowie Chapel George Ironside tomb
- Cowie Chapel Headstone with Finger Pointing Up
- Cowie Chapel lifeboat memorial
- Cowie Chapel Masonic headstone
- Cowie Chapel winged hourglass headstone
- Cowie Chapel, 18th century blacksmith's headstone
- Cowie Chapel, 18th century shoemaker's headstone
- Cowie Chapel, Hassell tomb
- Cowie Chapel, St. Mary's of the Storms, Cowie Kirkyard
Categories
Iconography
- anchor
- memento mori
- ship
Photographer
- Pat Copner
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