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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Wednesday 10 September 25 08:11 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ajgemini on Wednesday 10 September 25 07:19 BST (UK)

John Guy has been missing since 1865. Would he have buried his mother close to him or is Dalziel just be a cheaper option.


No, South Dalziel was the parish burial ground, so it was the only option. There was an older, out of the way "Dalziel Parish" burial ground but, by the mid-19th century it was full and only old Motherwell families who already had plots there were allowed to use it. No one by the name of Guy listed in the monumental inscriptions there either.
What do you know about John Guy? Origins? Occupation? The family may have moved here for work, Motherwell was a "boom" town in those days.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Wednesday 10 September 25 00:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mandy, I have the transcriptions and a list of plot owners for South Dalziel churchyard but the stone for Sarah Guy has not survived, sorry. You are not having much luck with these stones!
John Guy is listed as being a plot owner but no other information is given and there are no burial records for South Dalziel.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Tuesday 09 September 25 22:39 BST (UK)  »
Lastly, plot G499

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Tuesday 09 September 25 22:38 BST (UK)  »
Next 2 are for plot E1715

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Tuesday 09 September 25 22:37 BST (UK)  »
2nd picture is plot D1419.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Tuesday 09 September 25 22:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mandy,

I haven't managed to check the records for these plots yet, I was in the cemetery a few days ago but the superintendent was too busy burying people to let me into the records!


As for Robina's marker, almost three-quarters of a century has passed, so there's no telling what has happened to this stone. It may have been a little marble one which, as soon as the rain gets into the smallest of cracks and freezes in the winter, gets split with the frost. It may have been vandalised or broken by the grass cutting machine and removed. Whatever happened, it's not there anymore.

Was William McIlwraith a Motherwell man by any chance?

Here are the plot pictures. I go back and get an entrance - gateway picture when I can.

First picture is plot B641.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Friday 05 September 25 15:20 BST (UK)  »
Hello again Mandy,

Just back from the cemetery and, unfortunately, after checking all 4 plots, I didn't find any stones.

G499. E1715. D1419. B641.

Next to E1715 there is a new stone, with the number E1715.5 and has a family called Donnelly on it, with the wife's maiden surname Corcoran. Could this be one of yours?

I have taken pictures of the plots, if you'd like to see them let me know.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW
« on: Friday 05 September 25 10:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mandy,

Just noticed your posting today, I'll check for the stones as soon as the rain eases-up!

Your Hector McKenzie who died at Berryhill in 1888 was a pauper and there are some excellent poor relief applications for him, his widow and his son James, plus other family, on Ancestry.
As a pauper Hector would most probably have been interred in common ground at Cambusnethan cemetery. Unfortunately, there is a huge gap of about 25 years in the paupers burial book but I'm 99% certain that he's buried there.
The cemetery records I have end at 1917 but I will try to check out the plot numbers over at the cemetery office.
The only record I have is this one -

MARION McLAUGHLIN, Wishaw, aged 55 years. Widow.
Parents - Peter Wilson & Ann Beveridge.
Interred in plot E1715 on 18th January 1910.
Plot owned by Alexander McKenzie, coal miner, Bute Crescent, Belhaven Road, Wishaw.

I'll get back to you as soon as I can about the rest of your enquiry.

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Lanarkshire / Re: mines in Airdrie
« on: Thursday 28 August 25 15:31 BST (UK)  »
This is an excellent little booklet by Robert Duncan (Anything by this man has been thoroughly researched). Unfortunately, I don't have a copy but I looked through this in my local library today and it is fascinating. 

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