Saturday, April 9, 2011

headstones posted by Judy Brown Tomlin





  • Where is this stone? Jon

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  • Judy Brown-Tomlin In the grave yard of the South Leith Parish Church, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
    March 8 at 2:19pm ·
  • Judy Brown-Tomlin My mother was baptized in this church.


  • Judy Brown-Tomlin
    Peddie, Alexander Fraser. b.1873. Private. No. 8525. 1st Bn, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Scottish. Enlisted at the outbreak of the First World War and took part in the initial Gallipoli landings in April 1915. On 4th June, 1915, at the co...mmencement of the Third Battle of Krithia he was hit by machine gun fire as his company left the trenches and died instantly. He was buried where he fell and has no known grave. Son of Andrew McKay Peddie, 1843-1908, Master Painter of Leith and Margaret Fraser 1845-1877. He was a painter journeyman, employed on the Dundas Estate at South Queensferry, West Lothian, and a widower with a family of three. His wife, Elizabeth McPherson or Metcalfe died in 1913. (added 12/11/98)See More

    March 8 at 2:32pm
  • Judy Brown-Tomlin The above seems to fit with the grave stone for Margaret Fraser.
  • Judy Brown-Tomlin I took these pics myself, but here is a site that shows others from the cemetary. http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/sets/72157602499714918/with/1620602368/

     Judy Brown-Tomlin South Leith Parish Church, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland

2 comments:

  1. Judy Brown-Tomlin
    South Leith Parish Church has graves of Peddie family members. I have to look for them, but I took some pics of the graves while I was there in Sept. 2008. My mother was married in that church.

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  2. Judy Brown-Tomlin
    Check out this link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith_Walk

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