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MHG1137 - Cholera Burial Ground, Burn of Houstry

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Small burial ground in which 4 people of the Sutherland family who died of cholera have been interred.

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'Caithness Monumental Inscriptions', pre 1855
Monumental inscription survey completed by A.S.Cowper & I.Ross.
The survey may not include inscription information after 1855 and each inscription transcribed does not give the full details that appear on the stones, abbreviations used. Some ommissions and inacuracies. Published 1992.
J Aitken : 20/12/02 <1>

A walled enclosure 8.4m square and 1.3m high. Within is a grave slab erected by John and George Sutherland in memory of their mother, their grandmother, a sister and an uncle who all died in the period 14th to 17th November 1849. The cause of death was cholera. There have been no other interments.
Visited by OS (J M) 9 November 1982.

Grave Yard OS 6" map, Caithness, 1st ed., (1871) <2>

A small enclosure where four men who had died of cholera were interred about 1849. It has not been used since.
Name Book 1871. <3>

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Grid reference	Centred ND 1461 3556 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND13NW
Civil Parish	LATHERON
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

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