David Swankie Boat Gravestone St Vigeans Arbroath Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the David Swankie, Boat, gravestone on ancestry visit to the graveyard of the parish church at St Vigeans, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. Erected by Isabella Cargill in loving memory of her husband David Swankie who died on the 23rd of December aged 75 years. Swankie is a surname common among the fisher population of Arbroath and neighbourhood, often used as a nickname. Hence Swankie's doo, a jocular local name for a seagull.

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