Sunday, August 30, 2009

Elizabeth Stewart 1811 - 1861

2015 Kent: Clochfoldich (sometimes spelled with an i, Cloichfoldich) was and is an estate in the Strathtay Valley in northern Perthshire. The Tay river flows through the bottom or south part of the estate. From the Tay the estate slopes up to and over a mountain and expands from there into forests with red deer and grouse. Fishing the Tay on the estate is a big topic on the internet. It is open to the public. Hunting is restricted but there is road access.

When our family lived there is was a small town with a school, shops, farms, fields, livestock and buildings.

There is a distinction between Little Clochfoldich and Clochfoldich. Today Clockfoldich has a few nice homes spaced apart and is used for hunting and the grazing of sheep. JK Rollings owns an estate to the west.

We had a little trouble finding the estate and I asked Ron to stop at a house sitting by itself down the road from castle which is privately owned. I walked up the drive around to the back of the home and found the kitchen door open. When the couple saw me the first thing they said was, “Hi, come on in.” They directed us to the other side of the Tay where we drove until we saw the sign for Cloichfoldich.

There were workers in the house so I just walked in. I found a worker and he said the housekeeper and groundsman were outside. Eventually they found the owner who told us what she knew about Cloichfoldich. I video taped her.

Like everyone we met she was most polite and kind. She said the old school behind the home (not Stewart's School on old map) was still standing and is now the Dutch ambassador’s vacation home. She also said we could view her walled garden to the west of the home but asked that we close the gate. Gotta watch out for those red deer.











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Margaret Stewart Gardiner's mother died in 1861 from "laryngitis 7 days" after she had her leg removed for unknown causes. 

Laryngitis is an inflammation of the larynx. It causes hoarse voice or the complete loss of the voice because of irritation to the vocal folds (vocal cords). Dysphonia is the medical term for a vocal disorder, of which laryngitis is one cause.

Laryngitis is categorized as acute if it lasts less than a few days. Otherwise it is categorized as chronic, and may last over 3 weeks. The chronic form occurs mostly in middle age and is much more common in men than women. 

In favourable cases, which form the majority, the attack tends to abate in a few days, but the inflammation may become of the oedematous variety, and death may occur suddenly from an asphyxial paroxysm. Some people believe George Washington died from acute laryngitis



3/25/15 Dear Kent Gardiner

Eastern Cemetery was not opened until 1863, two years after Elisabeth died.
The nearest cemetery to her before that would have been The New Howff or Constitution Road cemetery, which was destroyed by Dundee Corporation in the 1960s in a breathtaking act of civic vandalism.
If you go to georeferenced map at
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=56.4631&lon=-2.9761&layers=68
and slide the blue slider from right to left you will get an idea of the cemetery then and where the car park is now.

The human remains from the New Howff were re-interred in a mass grave in the Eastern cemetery for which I attach a location guide if you ever wished to pay your respects there.

Yours sincerely

Iain Flett



3/25/15 Dear Kent Gardiner

Eastern Cemetery was not opened until 1863, two years after Elisabeth died.
The nearest cemetery to her before that would have been The New Howff or Constitution Road cemetery, which was destroyed by Dundee Corporation in the 1960s in a breathtaking act of civic vandalism.
If you go to georeferenced map at
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=56.4631&lon=-2.9761&layers=68
and slide the blue slider from right to left you will get an idea of the cemetery then and where the car park is now.

The human remains from the New Howff were re-interred in a mass grave in the Eastern cemetery for which I attach a location guide if you ever wished to pay your respects there.

Yours sincerely

Iain Flett




Eastern Cemetery






New Howff

New Howff:

New Howff as it was originally intended, a cemetery.

New Howff as a parking lot



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Kent <kenthgardiner@gmail.com>

Dear Kent Gardiner

Eastern Cemetery was not opened until 1863, two years after Elisabeth died.
The nearest cemetery to her before that would have been The New Howff or Constitution Road cemetery, which was destroyed by Dundee Corporation in the 1960s in a breathtaking act of civic vandalism.

If you go to georeferenced map at
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=56.4631&lon=-2.9761&layers=68
and slide the blue slider from right to left you will get an idea of the cemetery then and where the car park is now.

The human remains from the New Howff were re-interred in a mass grave in the Eastern cemetery for which I attach a location guide if you ever wished to pay your respects there.

Yours sincerely

Iain Flett

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