Burial records for Elvanfoot, South Lanarkshire

[Chudleigh]

There was an outbreak of typhus around July 1847 which brought a heavy death toll, including among the local population and Irish navvies in Elvanfoot.  I cannot find a record of any of the burials - parish records for Elvanfoot only seem to start in 1906.  Did parish records for the area ever exist and, if so, where can they be found?

[GR2]

Here's a link to a memorial.

https://canmore.org.uk/site/219835/elvanfoot-burial-ground

Elvanfoot is in the parish of Crawford, Lanarkshire.

[Lodger]

Elvanfoot is indeed, as GR2 has already said, in the parish of Crawford. It's actually the parish of Crawford and Leadhills, with the parish number of 635.
As far as I know, there are no mortcloths or burials recorded for this parish (pre - 1855) but there are monumental inscriptions for Crawford old churchyard and Leadhills cemetery in "The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855" book by Sheila A Scott.
 

[GR2]

Here's a link to a memorial.

https://canmore.org.uk/site/219835/elvanfoot-burial-ground

As the above link says, the Irish navvies were not buried in the parish kirkyard, but in a separate cemetery created for the purpose. They also all seem to have been Roman Catholic, so probably haven't made it into any Church of Scotland register.

[Lodger]

If they were Catholic, why would the ground have been consecrated by an Episcopalian bishop?

GR2 - You think they wouldn't have made it into any Church of Scotland register? As I said earlier, no parish register has survived for Crawford & Leadhills, so you can't be sure.
The rule was, anyone - no matter what denomination - who was living in the parish at the time of death, was allowed interment in that parish burial ground. Prior to the 1847 epidemic, at least a few of the Irishmen must have died there.

[idmmdi]

The following is from the Sheila Scott MI for the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire -

'A small railed enclosure beside the Clyde containing over 30 small rough stones which have no inscriptions on them.

Plaque- 'Erected in 1916 in memory of 37 workmen who died while engaged in the construction of the Caledonian Railway and were buried in this ground which was consecrated 12th August 1847 by Michael Russell, Bishop of Glasgow' '

[Lodger]

The following is from the Sheila Scott MI for the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire -

'A small railed enclosure beside the Clyde containing over 30 small rough stones which have no inscriptions on them.

Plaque- 'Erected in 1916 in memory of 37 workmen who died while engaged in the construction of the Caledonian Railway and were buried in this ground which was consecrated 12th August 1847 by Michael Russell, Bishop of Glasgow' '

Already mentioned by GR2 and a link provided to the site.

[Chudleigh]

It sounds as if the local people (even in the middle of a typhus outbreak) did the decent thing.  A site was bought for the burials, the ground consecrated and the graves marked.  It is sad but perhaps understandable that their names were not recorded.

[Lodger]

It sounds as if the local people (even in the middle of a typhus outbreak) did the decent thing.  A site was bought for the burials, the ground consecrated and the graves marked.  It is sad but perhaps understandable that their names were not recorded.

Their names almost certainly were recorded but sadly, the register has either been lost, destroyed or still in someone's attic!