George Thoms

Clan MacThomas Society

"Memorial Information

There is said to be a column in Forgan Kirkyard near Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland commemorating members of this Branch of the Thoms family.

According to the Newport Archive website the inscription on the column reads:.

In memory of George Thoms, merchant, Dundee, died 5 October 1857 aged 56 years; his son George Duncan died 7 May 1863 aged 22 years; his son Patrick Hunter died at Rio de Janeiro 9 March 1870 aged 22 years; his son James Hendry died at San Francisco 25 November 1883 aged 41 years; his wife Elizabeth Watt Hendry died 16 November 1892 aged 73 years; David Scott Fergusson junior, grandson of the above George Thoms died 11 February 1868 aged 8 months.

Despite two visits to this Kirkyard the "owner" of this tree has not yet managed to find and photograph the column."