New Monkland Burials 1600 - 1700s Where are they??

[samalexander]

This may not help your search, but my fathers family are Shanks farmers from New Monkland. The family has very strong roots in New Monkland Parish especially with agriculture. When researching my tree I looked through the family bibles and came across old newspaper cuttings that make mention of the Shanks family and it’s connection to farming going back hundreds of years. I’m sorry I can’t help much other than confirm that the family does indeed have very strong roots in this parish and in the farming industry.

[Nooster]

I have came across your thread whilst researching names in New Monkland myself.  There is a list now available online which is taken from the graves in the Churchyard and a lair plan of some kind.  See https://www.treehousegenealogy.co.uk/post/new-monkland-parish-churchyard
I found some of my relatives within it  😁

[Skoosh]

Thanks for that Nooster, great site, a lot of work! Welcome to Rootschat.

Skoosh.

[Nooster]

Thank you just finding my way around, lol

[hemmy]

Treehouse Genealogy has recently produced a cd of New Monkland cemetery. https://www.treehousegenealogy.co.uk/

I have ancestors who were buried in Chapel (of Rest?) cemetery in Airdrie, now a car park!
The bodies from this cemetery (along with headstones) were exhumed, I think 1938, and moved to New Monkland cemetery. Most of the stones were quite worn, so not a lot of information on a lot of the bodies exhumed.

[Lodger]

Hello Hemmy,

The church you refer to was not a "Chapel of Rest" but in fact a "Chapel of Ease". It was built around 1789 - 1790 to ease the burden of overcrowding in the parish church at Glenmavis.
It later became the East Parish Church (following the Chapels/Quoad Sacra Act of 1834) but was always known as the "Old Chapel" by the good folk of Airdrie. The building had a very short life and certainly by 1855 it had been abandoned because of mine workings underneath and it was demolished soon afterwards.
The burial ground or kirkyard (not a cemetery) remained in use into the 20th century but as the years went on interments became few and far between. The last known burial was in 1904 and in December 1934 the Town Council took the decision to make half of the burial ground into a car park. 788 bodies were exhumed and re-interred at Ryden Mains cemetery next to New Monkland Parish Church. The other half of the burial ground was leveled out in 1963 and the gravestones were removed to Ryden Mains but no attempt was made to exhume the rest of the bodies. They are still there, under the grassy area in front of the Chapel Street flats.

[hemmy]

Thanks Lodger. I didn't think it was 'Rest', that's why I put a? at it.
I'll need copy your very informative information, most interesting.
I visited New Monkland and found the stone which once had my ancestors names inscribed on it, such a pity names were all worn, could've been lots of info there.

[Skoosh]

Hemmy, like your wee flag kid! 

Skoosh.

[Lodger]

Hemmy, what are the names you are looking for in the Chapel Street burial ground?
I do have some info taken from the exhumation records of 1935. I also have a sneeky feeling that monumental inscriptions for that ground are held in the Discovery Room at Airdrie Public Library.
Like Skoosh, (a man of impeccable taste) I too like your flag!

Alba gu bràth