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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Lodger on Thursday 11 April 13 12:12 BST (UK)
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I have some photographs of headstones from this burial ground. It was opened in 1861 by a private company and lies between the old churchyard and the municipal cemetery (also opened about 1861).
Anyone wanting a copy of any of these pictures please send me a PM. there are good interment records for this ground and I have copies up until about 1917 with a few gaps.
ALLISON & HILL.
ANDERSON, CRAIG, CAMPBELL & BACHOP.
BALLANTYNE & SCOTT.
BINNE, SHANKS & PENDER.
BRAND & FYFE.
CALDERHEAD & WATSON.
COCHRANE & SCOTT.
DAVIDSON & LOUDON.
DICK, 3 sisters (children of Wm Dick & Marion Calderhead).
DICK, TODD & MAXWELL.
DONALDSON & DICK.
DUNCAN Family of Cairneyhead & Stane.
FRASER & THOMSON.
GRAY, RUSSELL & CARMICHAEL.
HAMILTON & DUNCAN.
HAMILTON, REID , SMITH & THOMSON.
HAMILTON Robert, surgeon of Bonkle
HENRY & MARTIN.
LINDSAY & RUSSELL.
LITTLEJOHN & BELL.
LITTLEJOHN, MILLIGAN, BELL, RUSSELL, McGREGOR & BRYCE.
MAIN & GIBB.
MARTIN, minister of RP Church.
McARTHUR & COUTTS.
McCALLUM, MCLEISH & YOUNG.
MILLER & WILSON of Ayrshire & East Kilbride.
MILLIGAN & NIMMO.
MORE, AITKEN & MILLER.
MUIR & JAMESON.
MUNRO, sisters, daughters of Rev Munro.
NISBET, YOUNG, RANKINE, RUSSELL & RICHMOND.
PATERSON, REID & MITCHELL.
PATERSON, RUSSELL & MORRISON.
PRENTICE, BLACK & SHANKS.
REID & CLARKSON.
REID & SIBBALD.
SCOTT, HALLIDAY & LOUDON.
SCOTT, McCOMB, LEES & YOOL.
SMITH & BLACK.
SOMMERVILLE & FRASER.
SOMMERVILLE, LINDSAY, STEEL & STORIE.
STEVENSON, MACAULAY, McIVOR, McNICOL & THOMSON.
STRAIN & LOUDON.
THOMSON, CLELAND & BROWN.
THOMSON & STEEL.
WILLIAMS & RICE.
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:) :)Hi I would like the photographs of the littlejohn & Bell family from this cemetery. Do you still have them? Thanks ,Jodie
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Hi Jodie,
Yes, I still have the photographs. This is a double plot, numbers 6 & 7 and the gravestones are plaques pinned onto the perimeter wall. As you will see, one plaque is in excellent condition and the other is very difficult to read. If you are certain that this is the family you are looking for I will go back (as soon as it stops raining) and transcribe the illegible one. I can also give you the burial entries from the register but, until you confirm that you want them, I will hold off.
Lodger.
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hi , the top plaque looks like it could be the one I am after. I can vaguely read Archibald on their and that was one of their children. If you can transcribe it one day for me that would be great . thanks
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Hi Jodie, both plaques belong to the same family, Walter and James were probably
brothers. father & son.
As far as I can make out, the first plaque reads -
"Erected by Jane Bell in memory of her beloved husband James Littlejohn who died 27th January 1876 aged 56 years.
Archibald their son died 15th February 1883 aged 20 years.
Martha Aitken their (only?) daughter died ? January 1887 aged 18 years.
Walter their youngest son died ?? July ?? aged 20 years".
The rest is probably the detail for Jane Bell but I can't read it.
If this is definitely the right family I have much more information I can give you. There is a headstone in the old churchyard that I have an inscription for (the stone may have gone by now). It is for Archibald Littlejohn & Marion Paterson, who were the parents of James.
Before I forget Jodie - Welcome to Rootschat!
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Thankyou for the welcome! My Littlejohn's are not these ones. I have Robert Littlejohn b1794 d1851 in the Parish of Cambusnethan, son of John Littlejohn & Janet Bell. Robert m Isabella Barr who's dates I don't have. Thanks though for your reply, will have to hunt around some more
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I found 2 entries for this family in the Cambusnethan burial records.
JAMES LITTLEJOHN, labourer, Wishaw, aged 82 years, married.
Parents - John Littlejohn & Janet Bell.
Buried in the old churchyard on 10th November 1871.
ARCHIBALD LITTLEJOHN, miner, Wishaw, aged 85 years, widower.
Parents - John Littlejohn & Janet Bell.
Buried in the old churchyard on 20th May 1878.
Where did you find the date of death for Robert who died 1851? The only one I could find was married to Margaret Lawrie.
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Hi the date I had for Robert Littlejohn has come from ancestry. I don't have paper work to confirm it, so it could be incorrect. I have been trying to go back from Robert Littlejohn b 1830 in Wishaw, d 1884 in Sydney. He is my direct relation. He married Mary Inglis 1851 before emigrating. James Littlejohn you have found has the same parents, I didn't have him my tree. I know the parents names are correct
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Hi Lodger,
I would be very interested to see what you have for the Duncan, and the Hamilton & Duncan families please.
Not sure either are ours but my grandfather called his house Lanark in Victoria, Australia, believing the family came from that shire. They would have been before 1800 in Scotland. - don't know if any fit the bill! I know it is a long shot, but it is one of my brickwalls! ;) Other info we've found would indicate otherwise - but it is a matter of covering all possibilities. :)
Thanks for the generous offer made at the head of this thread. :)
Wiggy
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Lodger, This is definitely the right family. I have been checking out census records to make sure that I am on the right track. Its really my first big search for records on this side on my tree, so wanted to double check. What a great thread for me that I found on good old google :)
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Hi Jodie,
The monumental inscription for Robert Littlejohn states he died 16th March 1851 aged 52 years. His wife is named as Margaret Lawrie, she died 30th January 1867 aged 64 years. Their son John died at Edinburgh 30th December 1927 aged 84 years. (He was married to Jessie A. Gilchrist).
If this is the same Robert, the only other solution would be if he was married more than once. There are other children of Robert with Margaret Lawrie, in the burial records.
Take anything you find on Ancestry with a large pinch of salt, one person enters the wrong information and before you know it, 100 people have copied it.
I did find this entry in the baptism register for the Relief Church in Wishaw, the register runs from 1831 to 1864.
JAMES LITTLEJOHN, 5th child of Robert Littlejohn, mason, Thorn Bush and Isabel Barr.
Born 19th August 1832 and baptised by Rev Peter Brown on 9th September 1832.
I'll keep digging ;)
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Hi Wiggy,
The Duncan stones are very difficult to read but they are late Victorian, way too late for you.
Lanarkshire is a big county, about 38 parishes, not counting the city of Glasgow.
You would have to supply specific names. There is nothing in the Cambusnethan records with a Duncan/Hamilton combination.
Hamilton and Brownlie are the two most common names in the records. Thousands of them!
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Thanks Lodger - it was a long shot, and as you say, way too late for mine.
(On your original list you have Hamilton & Duncan listed - just like that - that's why I asked for that lot. :))
Thanks for looking!
Wiggy ;)
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Hi Wiggy,
yes, you're right. I checked for Duncan & Hamilton but didn't check for Hamilton & Duncan.
It's another late Vicky one, Margaret Duncan died 1880 aged 39 years. Parents George Duncan & Margaret Rankin. The address on the burial record is Armadale, with is in the next county.
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Thanks very much Lodger.
Too late to be able to tell if it is connected - but thanks for looking!
Wiggy :)
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Hello, Lodger. William Dick and Marion Calderhead were my gg-grandparents. I would love any information you have on their family.
Marion Calderhead's mother, Cate McCarter/MacArthur died in 1859, just before this cemetery opened. Would you have any idea if she might be buried in the vicinity? Cate's husband was Peter Calderhead.
I am grateful for any help you can provide!
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Nothing else other than this one stone, sorry. The records begin 1861 for the Walled Burial Ground and for the ancient churchyard. No sign of Kate McCarter/McArthur in the list of monumental inscriptions.
The 3 girls seem to be the only occupants of plot No.8 in the Walled Ground. This is an early number and the plot is against the wall, so it would probably have been purchased before 1870, which is the date of the 1st interment. The records show the following - (all children of William Dick & Marion Calderhead)
MARION DICK, Stane, aged 2 months. Buried 25th February 1870.
JESSIE DICK, Edinburgh, aged 6 years. Buried 21st January 1880.
CATHERINE DICK, Portobello, aged 21 years. Buried 5th March 1882.
Stane is now part of the modern-day town of Shotts. Portobello is a lovely part of Edinburgh on the firth of Forth.
There was a William Calderhead, Inspector of Poor at Wishaw in 1907, I wonder if he is related to this family?
Good luck with your research.
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Just a thought about Kate McArthur - if she died in 1859 her place of burial should be entered on her death certificate.