Teacher Gravestone Kirkton of Monikie Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Dargie gravestone in the graveyard on ancestry visit toKirkton of Monikie in Angus, Scotland. Erected by Susan Gibson in memory of her husband John Dargie, teacher Bankhead, Monikie, who died on the 12th of May, 1856, aged 77 years. This surname is of medieval Scottish origin and is locational from a place so called in the parish of Liff Benvie in Angus. The derivation is thought to be from the Scottish Gaelic word dearg, meaning red, and may refer to the redness of the earth or minerals in the rock, giving it a a red hue. The name is well recorded in Angus, for example, John Dargie in Hill of Fynnevine in 1613, Pat Dargie in 1616, at Monikie, and John Dargie in July 1656 at Maine and Strathmartine.

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