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Hi Doolittle, sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

Here's a transcript of the plot book you asked for. Like all plots in the old churchyard at Cambusnethan, it is divided into 3 lairs/compartments. North, South & Centre.

Please remember that this Plot Book only begins in the mid-1870s. There will be many more in there before then. all dates are of interment.

In the South -
MARGARET HARRISON, aged 26 years. 28th December 1887.

In the Centre -
THOMAS STEEL, aged 60 years. 3rd December 1894.

In the North -
JOHN WYLIE, aged 44 years. 30th December 1881.
THOMAS HARRISON, aged 2 weeks. 14th September 1885.
ROBERT HARRISON, aged 2 months. 22nd October 1885.
THOMAS STEEL, aged 75 years. 14th September 1939.
RACHEL STEELE, aged 100 years. 5th August 1966.

The registered owners, in Victorian times, were Thomas Steel & Margaret Haddow.

Would Rachel's father have been John Hamilton, aged 32 years when he died in 1877? Parents names Andrew Hamilton & Smellie.

Also, do these couples fit into your family?
John Hamilton and Elizabeth B. Nisbet?
Peter Nisbet and Jane Melville?


As for Liddells and Binnies, they are my direct ancestors, mainly from Muiravonside, Polmont and Slamannan (all in Stirlingshire). PM me if you think you have a link to them.

Hi Turner,

71 Rose Street was a tenement building, my great-grandparents lived there for a couple of years in the 1880s. They then moved to South Shamrock Street and by 1900, when the plague arrived, poverty, not the plague had left my granny an orphan at the age of fourteen. Both her parents and all her 7 siblings had died. "The good old days" that Maggie Thatcher wanted us to go back to!

Don't waste time agonising about spelling. There was no such thing as 'correct' spelling of names until about the end of the 19th century.
Search for G*v*n* when wildcards are available in order to pick up all the possible variants.

Sound advice, as always, from Forfarian!

The burial records for Cambusnethan cemetery has the following entry, unfortunately, the interment was in Common Ground, so there is no other family member in the same grave, nor is there a headstone.

THOMAS McGURK, Wishaw, aged 23 months.
Parents - Alexander McGurk & Mary Ann Govan.
Interred in common ground on 27th January 1873.

The name Govan is not common in this cemetery, a few other entries are for children of Patrick Carroll & Helen Govan, also Patrick McKenna & mary Govan. There is also a David Govan residing at Binnie's Row, Newmains in 1915.

If you have a subscription to Ancestry UK you will have already found the poor relief applications from North Lanarkshire for Alexander McGurk. He is listed as being born in Barrhead, Neilson and his wife Mary Ann GAVIN as also born in Barrhead.
Their son Alexander has an excellent application in Bothwell parish which runs from 1899 until 1929. His parents are listed as being Alexander McGurk and Mary Ann GIVEN.

Hi Ard,

No Leggat's in South Dalziel or in the older, Old Manse Burial ground at Dalziel.
One Frew in south Dalziel, Catherine Frew, wife of John Liddell. She died 1865 aged 35 years.

There are a few Leggat's in Cambusnethan cemetery, also in the old burial ground adjoining the cemetery and in the small private burial ground there. Also in the ancient Cambusnethan churchyard at Kirkhill. But, the name Frew is very rarely mentioned in the Cambusnethan registers.
If you give me more information - including women's maiden surnames to match with male Leggat's it would help.

As for Halliday, there are a few in Cambusnethan, some related to my nephews. Carluke monumental inscriptions are in Sheila Scott's "The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855". (A very snappy title). However, she tended to skip post 1855 stones and there is only 1 mention of the name Halliday, it's only a marker stone (to mark their plot) and the inscription is  "Erected by Archibald Hallady & Marion Penman 1829". These were my nephews 6 x gt grandparents.