Gillichan, James
Year of burial: 1813
Grave number: 315Find it on the map
Inscription:
Sacred to the memory of James Gillichan who departed this life May 16th 1813 aged 59 years and also to the memory of his wife Elizabeth Gillichan who departed this life on the 7th of July 1842 aged 79 years
Bio:
In 1804 Malcolm Brown along with James Reid, Peter Godbey and James Gillichan established a distillery at Roden Place called Reid, Brown & Co. The distillery went on to become Malcolm Brown & Company. Years later Malcolm Brown became the solo proprietor of the distillery, through his marriage in to the Gillichan family. He was married to the daughter of James and Eliza Gillichan. James Gillichan son Dr. George Gillichan inherited his one-eighth share in the company, although he died aged 29 during the typhus epidemic.