According to the Newport Archive website the inscription on the column reads:.

In memory of George Thoms, merchant, Dundee, died 5 October 1857 aged 56 years; his son George Duncan died 7 May 1863 aged 22 years; his son Patrick Hunter died at Rio de Janeiro 9 March 1870 aged 22 years; his son James Hendry died at San Francisco 25 November 1883 aged 41 years; his wife Elizabeth Watt Hendry died 16 November 1892 aged 73 years; David Scott Fergusson junior, grandson of the above George Thoms died 11 February 1868 aged 8 months.

During two visits to this Kirkyard the "owner" of this tree had failed to locate the column. However the local council who manages the graveyard recently uncovered the memorial from the centre of a rhododendron bush which had over the years has surrounded it. They have provided the photograph in the adjacent blob.

Please click here to view the location of the column (Number 184) in the Kirkyard on the Newport Archive website.

Added here 13/03/2019
Last updated 06/01/2022

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