Cambusnethan churchyard headstone pictures

[Rodeo]

Hi Mary Ellen

Eureka! Your great grandmother is interred in Bent Cemetery, Hamilton. I don't know how I missed this entry.

Thomson, Margaret, age 52, date of burial 27 January 1904, Calderwood Castle

Cheers,

Rodeo

[marypryde]

Rodeo - I cannot tell you how thrilled I am with your discovery!  It has been a frustrating search with me being so far away from Scotland.  A lot of people have tried to help, with no success.

No only have you found her, but her presence in Bent Cemetery validates the connection with the others you mentioned.  I'll have a busy time ahead filling in a lot of blanks in my Steel(e)/Barclay/Thomson branch.

Thank you so very much,  Mary Ellen

[sancti]

Rodeo I have a lair plan for Bent cemetery do you have a lair and section number?

[Rodeo]

Hi Sancti

I just knew that YOU would be the one kind enough to send Mary Ellen a photo of her great grandmother's grave. You're such a treasure!

Unfortunately, however, there are no lair numbers included in the Bent Cemetery burial records I have. She'll have to contact South Lanarkshire Council. In the past, I've corresponded with Ellen Millar, who has been extremely helpful, at the following email address:

Ellen.Millar[replace with 'at' symbol]southlanarkshire.gsx.gov.uk

Many thanks, Sancti.

All the best,

Rodeo

[sancti]

Sadly many of the older headstones in Bent cemetery are lying face down but if Mary gets a lair location I will check it out

[Rodeo]

Hi Mary Ellen

If you contact South Lanarkshire Council to obtain the lair number of your great grandmother's grave, Sancti will very kindly send you a photo of the headstone.

It will facilitate your further genealogical research, as you say, knowing that your relations resided in Hamilton and environs. Please let me know if I can help you with further Bent Cemetery look-ups.

Cheers,

Rodeo

[marypryde]

Rodeo and Sancti - I'm on it!  Will advise if I come up with a lair number from Lanarkshire Council.  Being the weekend it may take some time.  You are both being incredibly helpful.
Best regards, Mary Ellen

[marypryde]

Rodeo (I'm getting greedy now!)  Since you have found Margaret Thomson and her mother Margaret Steel Barclay, would you please check your Bent Cemetery records for the latter's parents -James Steel and Margaret Clark.

I assume since you didn't mention him that William Barclay, (husband of Margaret Steel Barclay and father of Margaret, Samuel and Mary) is not listed in the Bent Cemetery records, but if there are any more Barclay's or Steel's, or Clarks for that matter, I'd like to have them also.  My tree is growing quickly.
Gratefully, Mary Ellen

[Rodeo]

Hi Mary Ellen

I had another look for your Barclays and found the following:

Barclay, William, age 66, interred 7 Sept 1889, Old Farm, Lowwaters
Barclay, William, age 64, interred 14 Dec 1912, Hamilton Combination Poorhouse
Barclay, William, age 65, interred 18 Feb 1920, 9 Saffronhall Crescent
Barclay, Grace, age 7, died 16 Dec, interred 19 Dec 1871, Daughter of William Barclay,
  Ferniegair

More to follow

Cheers,

Rodeo