CAMBUSNETHAN PRIVATE BURIAL GROUND

[jodie1]

Lodger, This is definitely the right family. I have been checking out census records to make sure that I am on the right track. Its really my first big search for records on this side on my tree, so wanted to double check. What a great thread for me that I found on good old google

[Lodger]

Hi Jodie,
The monumental inscription for Robert Littlejohn states he died 16th March 1851 aged 52 years. His wife is named as Margaret Lawrie, she died 30th January 1867 aged 64 years. Their son John died at Edinburgh 30th December 1927 aged 84 years. (He was married to Jessie A. Gilchrist).
If this is the same Robert, the only other solution would be if he was married more than once. There are other children of Robert with Margaret Lawrie, in the burial records.
Take anything you find on Ancestry with a large pinch of salt, one person enters the wrong information and before you know it, 100 people have copied it.
I did find this entry in the baptism register for the Relief Church in Wishaw, the register runs from 1831 to 1864.

JAMES LITTLEJOHN, 5th child of Robert Littlejohn, mason, Thorn Bush and Isabel Barr.
Born 19th August 1832 and baptised by Rev Peter Brown on 9th September 1832.

I'll keep digging 

[Lodger]

Hi Wiggy,

The Duncan stones are very difficult to read but they are late Victorian, way too late for you.
Lanarkshire is a big county, about 38 parishes, not counting the city of Glasgow.
You would have to supply specific names. There is nothing in the Cambusnethan records with a Duncan/Hamilton combination.
Hamilton and Brownlie are the two most common names in the records. Thousands of them!

[Wiggy]

Thanks Lodger - it was a long shot, and as you say, way too late for mine.

(On your original list you have Hamilton & Duncan listed  - just like that  - that's why I asked for that lot.   

Thanks for looking! 

Wiggy   

[Lodger]

Hi Wiggy,

yes, you're right. I checked for Duncan & Hamilton but didn't check for Hamilton & Duncan.
It's another late Vicky one, Margaret Duncan died 1880 aged 39 years. Parents George Duncan & Margaret Rankin. The address on the burial record is Armadale, with is in the next county.

[Wiggy]

Thanks very much Lodger.     

Too late to be able to tell if it is connected - but thanks for looking!

Wiggy   

[the_granville]

Hello, Lodger.   William Dick and Marion Calderhead were my gg-grandparents.   I would love any information you have on their family. 

Marion Calderhead's mother, Cate McCarter/MacArthur died in 1859, just before this cemetery opened.   Would you have any idea if she might be buried in the vicinity?  Cate's husband was Peter Calderhead.

I am grateful for any help you can provide!

[Lodger]

Nothing else other than this one stone, sorry. The records begin 1861 for the Walled Burial Ground and for the ancient churchyard. No sign of Kate McCarter/McArthur in the list of monumental inscriptions.
The 3 girls seem to be the only occupants of plot No.8 in the Walled Ground. This is an early number and the plot is against the wall, so it would probably have been purchased before 1870, which is the date of the 1st interment. The records show the following - (all children of William Dick & Marion Calderhead)
MARION DICK, Stane, aged 2 months. Buried 25th February 1870.
JESSIE DICK, Edinburgh, aged 6 years. Buried 21st January 1880.
CATHERINE DICK, Portobello, aged 21 years. Buried 5th March 1882.

Stane is now part of the modern-day town of Shotts. Portobello is a lovely part of Edinburgh on the firth of Forth.
There was a William Calderhead, Inspector of Poor at Wishaw in 1907, I wonder if he is related to this family?

Good luck with your research.

[Lodger]

Just a thought about Kate McArthur - if she died in 1859 her place of burial should be entered on her death certificate.