Stone
Stone in gatepost, dedicated to Susan Ferrier
SUSAN FERRIER
writer
born 7 SEPT 1782 died 5 Nov 1854
Memorial to Janet Horne
1722
[This is actually incorrect - it should read 1727]
Janet Horne was the last person in Britain to be tried and executed for witchcraft. In 1727 she and her daughter were arrested and jailed in Dornoch. Her crimes, according to her neighbours, were devilish; she was accused of turning her daughter into a pony, and of getting Satan himself to shoe the horse/girl. At the time of her execution Janet Horne was showing signs of what we would recognise today as senile dementia. Her daughter appears to have had a deformity in her hands and feet, a condition which it is believed she subsequently passed on to her son. The trial was rushed. Captain David Ross, sheriff-depute of Sutherland, found both women guilty and ordered that they should be burned to death the following day. The younger woman escaped but Janet was clearly confused by events. She was stripped, covered in tar and paraded through Dornoch in a barrel. When she arrived at her execution place, Janet is said to have smiled and warmed herself at the very fire which was about to consume her.
Stone marking the resting place of a barrel containing a witch.
From Cluny Hill, witches were rolled in stout barrels through which spikes were driven. Where the barrels stopped, they were burned with their mangled contents. This stone marks the site of one such burning.
Memorial stone to Mary McCallum Webster
In memory of MARY McCALLUM WEBSTER FLS 1906-1985
A botanist who was an expert on the plants of the Moray area and wrote The Flora of Moray, Nairn and East Inverness.
Her ashes were scattered here, at her own request, in the Culbin Forest she knew so well and among the wintergreens, her favourite plants
The drawing on the plaque is of the one-flowered wintergreen, Moneses uniflora, Mary McCallum Webster's favourite flower.
Jane Haining Memorial Stone
The Stone from Auschwitz
is in memory of
JANE HAINING
Scottish Missionary and all
others who died in the death camp
Dr Elsie Maud Inglis - Medical Practice
ELSIE MAUD INGLIS
Founder Scottish Women's Hospitals
France, Serbia, Russia 1914-1918,
Practised medicine here 1898-1914
Inscribed paving stone in memory of Dorothy Dunnett
Where are the links of the chain joining us to the past?
Dorothy Dunnett 1923–2001
Memorial stone dedicated to Mary Erskine
IN MEMORY OF
MARY ERSKINE
WHO WITH
THE COMPANY OF MERCHANTS OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH
FOUNDED
THE MERCHANT MAIDEN HOSPITAL
BORN 12 MAY 1629
DIED 2 JULY 1707
Memorial stone dedicated to Helen Walker
This stone was erected By the Author of Waverley to the memory of Helen WALKER who died in the year of God 1791. This humble individual practised in real life the virtues with which fiction has invested the imaginary character of JEANIE DEANS. Refusing the slightest departure from veracity even to save the life of a sister she nevertheless shewed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law at the expense of personal exertions which time rendered as difficult as the motive was laudable. Respect the grave of poverty when combined with love of truth and dear affection.
The monument is a stone sarcophagus surrounded by iron railings.
OS Grid NX 91512 79570
Memorial to Elyza Fraser
Sacred to the memory of Elyza Fraser, late possessor of this castle (i.e. Castle Fraser) who departed this life on the 8 Jan 1814, aged 80. Distinguished by her intellectual attainments, polite accomplishments and still more by those virtues which dignify and exalt human nature, after a life spent in the uniform and active discharge of every Christian duty.
This memorial was erected by Elyza Fraser to her friend Mary Bristow, and Elyza Fraser's details were added subsequently. It's a square memorial, about 7ft high.