John Cargill / Agnes Swan

Name	Date of Birth	Birth Place	Date of Death	Place of Death
John Cargill	27 May 1813	Auchmithie	Jun 1856	Fife

Name	Date of Birth	Birth Place	Date of Death	Place of Death
Agnes Swan	17 Mar 1815	Auchmithie	1847

Name	Date of Birth	Birth Place	Date of Death
John Cargill	1840	Auchmithie
Peter Cargill	1843	Arbroath	1861
James Cargill	1844		1848
Robert Cargill	1847	Arbroath

Event Type	Date	Place
Marriage	1836	Auchmithie

On Agnes Swan and John Cargill's headstone it says he drowned off Aden in 1856, he was a pilot and white fisher. However, he was actually drowned 3 miles off the mouth of the River Eden, his fishing boat overturned, another John Cargill was drowned inthe same incident, he was the thirty year old son of Francis Cargill and Helen Watt.

John and Agnes were born in Auchmithie and their son John was born in Auchmithie but they had moved to Arbroath by the 1841 census. The gravestone was erected by one of their children, possibly John Cargill as a Margaret Cargill is mentioned in the inscription, John Cargill was married to a Margaret Cargill who died in 1905

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