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Alexander Johnston
Camiscross, Isle of Skye Lost at Sea SS United Kingdom 1869 Wiki search finds the SS United Kingdom lost 19th April 1869 Scottish ship registry shows the SS United Kingsom as a 400 passenger steamshipbuilt in Glasgow in 1857 and operated by the Anchor Line on the Emigrant trade to Canada. 19/04/69 left New York and not heard of since. 80 lives lost. Presuming a near empty ship on the return journey Alexander left a wife and 4 daughters - 3 of whom are also listed on the gravestone. His wife was buried on Skye 37 years later after raising the girls on her own. Presumably the daughters are buried under the stone |
Major-General Marcus Antonius Waters (6 November 1793 – 14 January 1868) was an Irish-born British Army officer who was the last surviving Royal Engineers officer who fought at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo
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