Lilias Sharp1

#3557, (c 1736 - 1792)
Extended Family
ChartsWilliam Reid & Lilias Sharp - collapsible 5-generation descendant chart
Ancestors of James Stirling Kinross

Children of Lilias Sharp and William Reid

Life Events

BirthLilias Sharp was born circa 1736.2
 
MarriageShe married William Reid.1,2
 
Research Note Lilias Sharp was is identified as William Reid's wife on their gravestone. Unfortunately, the Dunblane marriage records are missing for the period in which they likely married. There is quite a gap in William's children and Lilias was about 13 years younger than William; perhaps a second marriage for him. 
DeathLilias died on 7 Dec 1792.2
 
GravestoneTheir gravestone is a table stone with a share & coulter in Ardoch Cemetery, Muthill, Perthshire.2
William Reid & Lily Sharp
James Reid & Isabella Finlayson
Ardoch, Perthshire
Research Note In 2013, Colin Bendall visited the cemetery, photographing and transcribing the inscriptions. Much detail had weathered since the Mitchell's transcriptions in 1975. Combining the two yields:

HERE LIES THE BODY OF
LILY SHARP
WIFE OF WM REID
TENANT IN WESTER FEDDAL
DEPARTED THIS .....
DECr 7th 1792
...... ...... ...... 56 YEARS

AND THE BODY OF
WILLIAM REID HER
HUSBAND
WHO DEPARTED THIS
EARTH OCTr 6TH 1800
AGED 77 YEARS

AND JAMES REID THEIR SON
WHO DIED AT WESTER FEDDAL
MARCH 16th 1848
AGED 78 YEARS.
 
Last Edited16 Dec 2014

Citations

  1. [S216] Scotland Death Register. John Reid, #1855/348/21.
  2. [S432] John Fowler Mitchell and Sheila Mitchell, compilers, Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) in South Perthshire (n.p.: Scottish Genealogy Society, 1975), FHL film #962930; does not contain full text of inscriptions.