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- 1851 Long Wynd Kirkwall age 30 sailor, also mother in law Barbara Sinclair
1861 Long Wynd Kirkwall , Robert missing ( at sea) wife Elizabeth age 43 sailors wife, Betsy, (nee Tourie), son John Shearer 6, Robert 3, Barbara Sinclair, 63, Mother in Law, Pauper.
1871 Long Wynd Kirkwall age 50 seaman, Elizabeth 52, sons; William 18, Printer Compositor, Robert 13, Barbara Sinclair, 81, Mother in Law ,Formerly Laundress.
1881 Long Wynd Kirkwall age 64? seaman, Elizabeth 62, son William 28, Printer Compositer.
1891 Long Wynd Kirkwall age 70 fisherman , wife Betsy age 72.
St Magnus Cathedral Graveyard, Kirkwall, g/8/27;
Erected by ROBERT SHEARER in memory of his beloved son ROBERT who died 8th May 1875 aged 18 years. Also their 3 children who died in infancy. Also his wife BETSY TOWERS who died 22nd Jan 1894 aged 74 years.
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