Frotoft branch of the Orkney Traills

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early in the twelfth century, and in the latter Cathedral
many of the Baikies of Tankerness are buried, also many
members of Orkney families : Balfour, Douglas, Traill,
Liddell and Mackenzie, &c. ; the Burial Act of 1855 now
prevents interments in the Cathedral. Robert Baikie, M.D.,
died in 1889, in Edinburgh, and was buried in his own Island,
where he had spent many happy days with his father's and
mother's family, during the summer months, when a boy,
among the beautiful wild flowers that grew near the old
house of Howan, under the influence of a bright sun. It
has been said that Egilshay got more sun than some of the
other Islands, this may account for the flowers and grass
growing so well there. His very worthy wife and also her
sister are buried there, the sister well deserving a resting-
place beside the two she had, for so many years, been a
cheerful companion and devoted sister to. All three are
doubtless sheltered by the old Church Tower. May their
ashes rest in peace, and may they ultimately rise amid the
glories of a sun, brighter than it formerly shone or does now
shine on, what has been said to be, one of the prettiest
green Islands in Orknev.
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