Stone No. 69, Face: East

TO
THE
MEMORY
OF
WILLIAM NISBET
A MAN JUSTLY ESTEEMED
FOR THE QUIET INTEGRITY
OF HIS CHARACTER
AND ADMIRED
FOR THE SINGULARLY VARIED
ARTISTIC GIFTS WITH WHICH NATURE
HAD ENDOWED HIM
AND HIS REMARKABLE KNOWLEDGE
OF SCIENCE ACQUIRED WITHOUT
REGULAR EDUCATION
THIS STONE IS ERECTED
BY HIS MANY FRIENDS.

HE DIED AT THE LINT MILL
ON 10TH APRIL 1903
IN THE SEVENTY FIFTH YEAR
OF HIS AGE.
HERE ALSO LIES HIS NIECE
CHARLOTTE NISBET
BORN 7TH APRIL 1858
DIED 18TH NOV. 1929.

HERE ALSO ARE INTERRED GEORGE NISBET, HIS FATHER DIED 8TH
DECEMBER 1878, AGED 78 YEARS; JANET MARSHALL, HIS MOTHER
DIED 20TH NOVEMBER 1866, AGED 67 YEARS; AND ANN NISBET,
HIS SISTER, DIED 6TH OCTOBER 1882, AGED 52 YEARS.

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William Nisbet was a remarkable self-taught polymath. He was one of the earliest photographers and listed himself as such in the 1861 census. He also made very fine violins and wood carvings and was a respected naturalist. He was a Market Gardener like his father George and died unmarried. His father George was the son of Alexander Nisbet, Carrier, and Isabella Boyd. His mother Janet Marshall was the daughter of James Marshall, Agricultural Labourer, and Janet Dawson. Charlotte Nisbet, his niece, lived most of her life with William and George and acted as a Domestic Servant and latterly Housekeeper for William. She died unmarried at Lint Mill. Ann Nisbet was a Housekeeper at Lint Mill and died there unmarried.

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