Cambusnethan Cemetery Grave Search - Part 1

[albagubrath]

It took me three days of searching but I eventually found Daniel MacFarlane's grave in Cambusnethan.  His wife, his father and six of his childern are in with him.  As well as two people I don't know yet.
The gravestone is almost completely worn away and it was overgrown but so pleased to have found it and made all the effort worthwhile. 

[Lodger]

That's great news, which part of Cambusnethan? the churchyard or the cemetery?

[albagubrath]

It was in the low public section.  Think thats the cemetery but really not sure where the churyard stops and the cemetery starts

[mcghee67]

Lodger,

Do you have any records for female O'Neil deaths on the day book for Cambusnethan, my Greatgrandfather James O'Neil married twice I do not know the first name of his first wife.

Thanks Jane

[Lodger]

Sorry Jane, I need a maiden surname to cross-check with.

Lodger

[mcghee67]

Ho Lodger

On my ggrandmothers death record her mother is named as Mary Ann O'Neil (Ms Donnelly)

Thanks Lodger

[Lodger]

Jane,

Is Mary Ann Donnelly the 2nd wife?  If so, then I'm sorry but I can't help you. It is impossible to find someone when I don't know either the name, the date of death or the plot number.
The death certificate of your gt-grandfather, if he died in Scotland, should provide the names of his spouses.
Lodger.

[mcghee67]

Thanks for taking the time to look Lodger, but I don't know if she is 1st or 2nd

Kind regards Jane

[davanel]

Forsythe/Taylor

Hi Lodger,

My Canadian friends & I visited Cambusnethan Cemetery today. We found several of the tombstones you had inscriptions for. Sadly some were in the fenced off area but a kindly gravedigger went & looked for us but to no avail. I guess like many other sandstone tombstones they have eroded or  fallen down. However my friends were very moved by their experience.

I would suggest that other folk looking for old tombstones do so quickly as many are so badly eroded that they will be illegible soon especially in the private part as the ivy is growing over the stones in the wall.

Thanks for all your help. Have to do the same at Stonehouse & Lesmahagow now.
Davanel