• Born: 12 February 1796, Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland
• Marriage (1): Margaret ALLISON on 5 April 1817 in Loudoun, Ayrshire, Scotland ¹
• Died: 27 August 1885, Darvel, Loudoun Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland at age 89

  General Notes

Monument in Darvel Old Cemetery (Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland) honors the memory of Alexander Gemmell, wife Elizabeth (McCartney) Gemmell, daughters Margaret Gemmell and Elizabeth Wallace Gemmell, wife's parents' David McCartney and Margaret Alison, and wife's brothers Robert McCartney and James McCartney. The stone was clearly placed some time after Alexander Gemmell died since his death date on the stone is incorrect:

ERECTED BY
MAGGIE & BESSIE GEMMELL
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THEIR PARENTS
ALEXANDER GEMMELL
DIED 5 JUNE 1879 AGED 56
INTERRED IN
DUNDONALD CHURCH-YARD
ELIZABETH McCARTNEY
DIED 30 AUG. 1885 AGED 57
THE ABOVE
BESSIE GEMMELL
DIED 20. NOV. 1941
IN HER 73RD YEAR
ALSO THE ABOVE
MAGGIE GEMMELL
DIED 8 MAY 1946
AGED 81 YEARS
"Thy will be done"

side 2:
ALSO
THEIR GRAND-PARENTS
DAVID McCARTNEY
DIED 27.AUG.1885 AGED 90
MARGARET ALISON
DIED 21.Sep.1860 AGED 69

side 3:
ALSO
THEIR UNCLES
ROBERT McCARTNEY
DIED 3.JUNE 1895 AGED 73
JAMES McCARTNEY
DIED 14 APRIL 1906 AGED 85

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  Birth Notes

Smallburn

  Death Notes

47 West Main Street

  Recorded Events in His Life

• He worked as a farm laborer.

• Parents: Robert McCartney and Elizabeth (Betty) Mathieson.

David married Margaret ALLISON on 5 April 1817 in Loudoun, Ayrshire, Scotland.¹ (Margaret ALLISON was born on 14 January 1798 in Loudoun, Ayrshire, Scotland, christened on 11 February 1798 in Loudoun, Ayrshire, Scotland and died on 21 September 1866 in Darvel, Loudoun Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland.)