Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . eeting. Thereare also registers of burials, marriages, andbirths from a very early date. In 1827 a new Meeting-House was builtin the Gallowgate, in a court adjoiningMars Castle. Attached to the Meeting-House was an enclosed space of groundwhich served as the Quakers graveyard,and in connection with it there was erectedwhat was called a Mort Safe. This wasa strongly-built house, into which deadbodies were put for some time before beingburied. The Quakers graveyard, whichwould appear to have been in use long be-fore there was any word of erecti
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . eeting. Thereare also registers of burials, marriages, andbirths from a very early date. In 1827 a new Meeting-House was builtin the Gallowgate, in a court adjoiningMars Castle. Attached to the Meeting-House was an enclosed space of groundwhich served as the Quakers graveyard,and in connection with it there was erectedwhat was called a Mort Safe. This wasa strongly-built house, into which deadbodies were put for some time before beingburied. The Quakers graveyard, whichwould appear to have been in use long be-fore there was any word of erecting aMeeting-House. was enclosed by greatstone dykes, which were again and againdemolished by order of the Town Meeting-House stood on one of themost elevated sites in Aberdeen, the groundrising in a steep gradient from the highestpoint in the Gallowgate. The buildingwas a very substantial one, the walls beingof considerable thickness. Latterly it wasused for many years as a currying shop byMessrs. John Watt and Son, leather nier- WF ^^. s > four small plain headstones are inscribedrespectively: — (1) John Cruickshank, died 3rd month, 17th,1828, aged 58 years. (2) Sarah Cruickshank, died 8th month, , aged 77 years. (3) Anthony Cruickshank, son of John andSarah Ciuiekshank. Born 18 of 4 mo., 2 of 1 mo., 1879. (4) Amos Cruickshank, son of John andSarah Cruickshank. Born 27th of 4th month, 27th of 5th month, 1895. Q. SfR ANTHONY CRUICKSHANK, ^lTTYION. 1298. The Obuiceshanks or SiTtiton.— Alllbas problem is easily solvable. Tliefamous herd oif SlhorthLOWte at SittytoTi wasfounded by two brothers, Amos Cruirksh inkI and Anthony Ofuiokshailk. They were sons of! John Orudcfcsbaink, KArumuok, Keith-hall, whoi had migrated thither from Doeside ; and. it isI said they possessed a hereditary apBJfcude forfarming, coming for some 200 years through aeuocewiioin of fawners. They entered—in- 1837—on tlho tenancy of, the large farm of Silttyto
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