Hamilton Old Parish churchyard

[anne_p]

Lodger:

"If you can figure out when exactly the David Hamilton in this story was married I can pencil it into the margin of the book. The story is on the right-hand side of the scan, so you'll have to scroll over."

Appeared in Motherwell Times 5 Mar 1892
Deaths:
On Saturday morning at 8 Brandon Street, Mary Craig, widow of David Hamilton, late of Brandon Hotel.

Working back through censuses at Brandon Hotel
David Hamilton Married Mary Craig 11 Aug 1850 Hamilton

Further news info shows that Mary Craig's father was James Craig the owner of The Crown Bar in Muir Street and it also states that his daughter became Mrs David Hamilton of Brandon Hotel

[Lodger]

Hi RobStewart, welcome to Rootschat.

No Edgars or Huttons on any of the stones in the parish churchyard, sorry.
The Relief Congregation Church in Lower Auchengramont Road was founded in 1775. It may have had burials from that time but no records exist from then. I have a list of plot owners for that burial ground (now the town hall carpark) but it dates from the 1830s. I checked that plus the baptism register (1775 - 1800) and the list of subscribers to the building of the 1775 church but no Edgars or Huttons.

[Lodger]

Hi anne_p,

Thanks for that information. Spookily, I had just been having a conversation a couple of days ago with some old school friends, lamenting the fact that 50 years ago here in Motherwell, there were about 9 bakehouses. Now there is 1.
At Motherwell Cross, next to the Crown Bar in Muir St, there was a lovely bakers shop (Fraser's) with a large "tearoom" upstairs, it was quite a high-class place and it struck me as I was speaking about it that this must have previously been the Brandon Hotel from this thread.

[sancti]

High class place!

In Motherwell?






Never 

[RobStewart]

Thanks for your quick reply Lodger. Much appreciated

Given the date of the death it was a long shot. Found the burial place of the next Alexander Edgar of Auchingramont in St Cuthberts Edinburgh but no luck with his mother/ father yet: probably either Hamilton, Edinburgh or his Jamaican plantations. What a choice!

Priscilla Edgar (first husband Thomas Hutton) funnily enough did marry the Relief minister the Rev James Stewart of Anderston.

[Lodger]

High class place!

In Motherwell
Never 

Sancti, I'll hiv you ken that we're aw awffy pan-loaf in Murrerwell.

[Lodger]

RobStewart,

James Stewart baptised at least 4 of the children from the Hamilton Relief Congregation.

On 2nd May 1782 Mr Steuart, minister in Anderson baptised Cristianah Windfield.

In 1785 (no date given) Mr J. Stewart baptised Janet Duncan.

On 25th March 1787 Mr James Stewart baptised Margaret Cowper.

On 4th January 1789 Mr James Stewart baptised Arthur Frame.

Pity about the burials, a headstone may have given ages or even dates of birth. Have you found a will for Alexander Edgar?

[RobStewart]

I'll look for a will on SP Lodger. If its just an inventory though! Was looking for info on Priscilla Edgar - possibly may have been buried with her parents. A long shot but the Anderston Church graves were moved for the Kingston bridge - no records made.

Thanks for the RevJS material. PE was likely dead by 1789 after 2/3 more children because the RevJS remarried in 1790. His baptisms may indicate a timeline of contact with Hamilton that may have largely stopped after she died. Easy to speculate though...

 

[Rufous Treecreeper]

Hi RobStewart,

I've come across your Proscilla Edgar when researching my Huttons, (her first husband's father, also Thomas Hutton, is my 6 x great grandfather).

Anyway I looked in the Lanarkshire Family History Society's 'Hamilton 647 Death Records A-L' for Edgar burials/deaths.  The Edgar deaths listed are all un-named children of Thomas Edgar, writer between 1696-1713.

Lanarkshire Index to Particular Registers of Sasines vol 2 1721-1780 has the following Edgar information:
1) Edgar, of Nether Auchingraymont, Alexander, formerly of Netgherhouse and in Jamaica, his spouse Edgar, Margaret.
2) Edgar, Alexander, son of Alexander E. of Nether Auchingraymont
3) Edgar, Handyside, son of Alexander E. of Nether Auchingraymont
4) Edgar, James, son of Alexander E. of Nether Auchingraymont
5) Edgar, Margaret, spouse of Alexander E. of Nether Auchingraymont
6) Edgar, Marion, spouse of William Pollock, shoemaker, Hamilton
7) Edgar, Priscilla, daughter of Alexander E. of Nether Auchingraymont, relict of Thomas Hutton, wright, Hamilton, and spouse of James Stewart, minister at Anderston.

Have you got the baptism records for Priscilla and Thomas Hutton's sons?  If not I can give.

Hope this is of some use to you, Marlene