Tarbolton Churchyard

[revmother2]

Hi Maureen
Sorry no Hendren in Tarbolton Churchyard. henderson and Drennan are the nearest spellings. As I said before to someone else, there is another more modern cemetery in tarbolton, and I don't have a book for that one. (don't think there is a book for it). It is the cemetery still in use.
sorry I can't help this time
revmother

[hendren]

Thanks for looking

Maureen

[mcgregor123]

Hello - I'd be really grateful if you could check for a John McGregor who died 1858 age 87 and according to the DC is buried at Tarbolton.  He is listed as a widower but no wife's name mentioned and I am hoping that a MI may prove/disprove his wife to have been Alice or Alison Marshal(l)  Mention of any children on the MI may also help.

Thank you very much 

[revmother2]

hello mcgregor123
this is what i can find for you from the index:
lair 11    Hugh pearson died failford june 1839 aged 59 and his wife Janet McGregor died 18 oct 1870 aged 86.

lair13    george Bryan farmer in Benston d 6 dec 1849 aged 92 and his wife Mary McGregor d 22 nov 1849 aged 79

lair 250   John McGregor d at West Carngillan (a farm) 11 aug 1904 aged 58 also his wife MAry Shaw d at park Mill 9 aug 1916 in her 69th year.

doesn't appear to be an older one for the previous John McGregor, but these may help you trace folk a bit.
sorry no sign of any Marshalls at all. Many of the older graves have no memorials at all.
how have you got on with Scotlands People site looking for a marriage for him? or on a census return?

good hunting
revmother

[mcgregor123]

Thanks very much for checking for me.  I know that the John McGregor I am looking for was married to Alice/Alison Marshal(l) and that he died before 1859, probably in Ayrshire, and I have this Death Cert but I can't say if it is for the right JM or not.  It may be that he died before 1855, but if there had been a MI with the wife &/or children's details, I would have hit the jackpot! 

If family history was straightforward, we wouldn't do it!  Many thanks for taking the time to check.

McGregor

[fairlane]

Hello
I wonder if you could look up in the index for me. I have James Muir marrying Margaret McGrigour on 10 Nov 1797 at Tarbolton. Can you see anyone in the churchyard likely to belong to this couple?
many thanks,
Fairlane

[revmother2]

Hello Fairlane
McGregor there, not your spelling. the cemetery doesn't go abck as early as them.
there are 2 McGregors -
lair 11 - Hugh pearson, Mason, Failford d june 1839 aged 59 and his wife janet McGregor d 18 oct 1870 in her 86 year.

Lair 13
George Bryan late farmer in Dykes d 6 dec 1849 aged 80, his wife Mary McGregor d 22 nov 1849 aged 79.
there were McGregor's in Dykes Farm until a few years ago.

The only Muir is Marion Muir in lair 153 as wife of David Mackie d 1 aug 1893 aged 58.

Hope these help a bit
revmother

[fairlane]

Hello Revmother

Many thanks for your incredibly quick response. I'm just getting to grips with the variety of spelling of the same names - don't think the McGregors belong but I'll do some searching forward down the line to see if this is a branch off. I have baptisms for two of the children of this couple in Mauchline in 1798 and 1800 (unfortunately both girls - one of whom is my mother's line) and hoped to find either James or Margaret's parents in the graveyard!
Many thanks,

Fairlane

[revmother2]

hi
More likely to be in the Mauchline cemetery 8 miles up the road!
sorry
don't have the book for it.
revmother