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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1977
Couple’s hobby a ‘grave’ subject
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John Fowler Mitchell, 90, and his
86-year-old wife, Sheila, have set
themselves the mammoth task of
recording every headstone in every
cemetery in Scotland. It’s a hobby
that has lasted 20 years.
The collections of information and
maps they publish at intervals have
proved invaluable not only to
genealogists and historians but also
to many ordinary people from all
over the world who are looking for
clues to the identity of their ances
tors.
Mitchell first became interested
in cemeteries when he was
stationed with the Army in India
many years ago. On the tombstones
of Delhi, he said, he found a fas
cinating precis of much of India’s
history, including details of a suc
cession of invaders, such as Moguls
and Persians.
On his return to Scotland, he
began to search for traces of his own
forebears and discovered that Scot
tish churchyards are ideally suited
for genealogical study.
“For a start,” he said, “in Scot-
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land, a wife’s maiden name is always
included on a gravestone. In the
same plot, or nearby, you’ll find all
the related family and children, so
it’s just a case of comparing names.
“There was also a long tradition of
naming the children after their
grandparents in a strict order of
precedence, and that makes it
easier to establish relationships.
Another help can be clues such as
you find in Perthshire where deco
rative signs are used on the stones
to indicate the dead man’s trade.
“A loom or shuttle, for example,
would indicate that he had been a
weaver, while a knife would mean
that he had been a shoemaker, and a
hammer that he had been a smith.”
The Mitchells have now become
well known overseas for their work,
and applications for their help arrive
daily from the United States, Aus
tralia, New Zealand and South Af
rica.
One recent problem they suc
cessfully solved was to trace the an
cestors of a German from Hamburg
who was descended from a Scottish
exciseman.
When the Mitchells visit a
churchyard, they make a plan of the
site, marking the position of each
stone and it’s relationship to those on
either side.
“It’s real detective work,” says
Mrs. Mitchell. “We crosscheck our
findings with old records . . . and
information from any other possible
source, such as old lists of university
students or, say, landowners — any-
(Contini
know or
thing, in short, which might giv (
clues.
“The work must be done me! rk Sizem
ically or it’s of little value and *
have to remember to look at
back of each stone as well as t
front. In one recent case involvi
stone leaning at an angle, wefci
the name of not only one wife
two more hidden at the base!’
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HOUSTON — A former federal
prosecutor wants the FBI to investi
gate the relationship between drug
defendants and the lawyer reported
to be President Carter’s likely choice
for U.S. attorney in South Texas.
Jose Antonio Canales of Corpus
Christi reportedly is the choice of
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex.
Anthony J. P. Farris yesterday
urged an official look at “serious alle
gations” against Canales. Farris, a
Republican who resigned in 1974
after prosecuting the Sharpstown
bank scandal, said Canales’ repre
sentation of drug defendants raises
questions “that have been ignored”
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“The senator has information . . .
that is damaging to Mr. Canales and
has not made it public,” Farris
charged.
Canales said such an investigation
would not bother him.
What really fascinates Sliej
Mitchell is the continuity,
grandfather,” she said, “was a
known portrait painter in I
burgh, and very often I’m al
tell people where there is apicij cktop sid
of one of their ancestors sothatin jarated fi
can go and photograph it,
would be surprised at howlittlei L campu
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Raza Unida gubernatorial candidt F* 16 P ro
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