Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW - Part 2

[ard]

Hi Lodger

Since my first posting on this subject way back in 2011, I have, over the succeeding years, gathered quite a few new pictures and, unfortunately, lost one or two as well!
Here are the new additions and, at the end, the ones I have managed to make disappear from the files![/b]

I am researching the HENDRY, GRAY & KING family group which is included in your list.

Has anyone already asked about this? (I did a search but was unable to locate it, if so) I have Robert Hendry as the son of Robert and Ann (King), married to Margaret Gray (I was thinking she may have been the daughter of James Gray and Helen Swan but I am unable to corroborate this).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks so much!

[Lodger]

Ard, here is the stone you asked for. Robert Hendry died 27th June 1879 aged 65 years. His wife Margaret Gray died 7th September 1892 aged 74 years. Their son John died 2nd December 1859 aged 2 years. Their daughter Ann King Hendry died 26th October 1942 aged 82 years.

Margaret Gray died in Edinburgh and is registered as Maggie Hendry, mother's maiden surname given as Swan. So you can have a look at the certificate. According to the free index on Scotlandspeople she died in the district of St Giles, so perhaps she was a patient at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh?

[ard]

Oh, that is excellent! Thanks so much. I didn't have any of that information.
So Margaret's parents must be James Gray and Helen Swan as I suspected. It's always fun when a hunch is confirmed ;-) Robert's parents Robert Hendry and Ann King. (in case anyone else is researching that family!)
Before John and Ann, Robert sr. and Margaret Gray had Robert King Hendry, James Gray Hendry, William Hendry (1853-1859), Helen S (Swan?) Hendry.

As always,
ard

PS I have now found Margaret's birth record - On Scotland's People, her mother's surname is transcribed as Levan!

[doolittle72]

Hi Lodger
Could I possibly trouble you for the Steel Muirie Parish Registrars one.  She was my fathers aunt.
Thank you and thank you for all the time you must spend just to help folks like me that are too far away to do it themselves.  We appreciate it
Doolittle

[Lodger]

Hi Doolittle,

Sadly, that stone has been vandalised and is unrecognisable now. I only identified it because it is on the same plot as an older stone which is still upright and in good condition. The plot is, of course, a Steel(e) family plot.
The transcription was done in 1983 and is as follows -

"Thomas Steele, Registrar of Cambusnethan died 30th November 1894 aged 60 years. His wife Agnes Scobie died 13th December 1878 aged 40 years. Their son Thomas, Registrar of Cambusnethan, died 12th September 1938. His wife Rachel Murie Hamilton died 3rd August 1966 aged 100 years".

According to the Plot register, Rachel was interred on 5th August. Her husband Thomas was aged 75 when he died. It was a busy plot, if you want any more info about who is in there, let me know.

Lodger.

[doolittle72]

Hi Lodger
I would be grateful for the contents of this grave,  Rachel Murie Hamilton later Steel was my grandfathers cousin.  As a child her father John was killed along with his brother-in-law, George Nisbet in the Blantyre Pit disaster of 1877.  She was the eldest child of the family and opted to stay in Lanarkshire whilst the rest of her family emigrated to USA.  She was a frequent visitor to USA until the death of her mother, Elizabeth Burt Nisbet later Hamilton in 1906.
 
I have quite a few names in common with you such as Binnie in Muiravonside, Liddle or Little in Polmont.
Doolittle

[Lodger]

Hi Doolittle, sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

Here's a transcript of the plot book you asked for. Like all plots in the old churchyard at Cambusnethan, it is divided into 3 lairs/compartments. North, South & Centre.

Please remember that this Plot Book only begins in the mid-1870s. There will be many more in there before then. all dates are of interment.

In the South -
MARGARET HARRISON, aged 26 years. 28th December 1887.

In the Centre -
THOMAS STEEL, aged 60 years. 3rd December 1894.

In the North -
JOHN WYLIE, aged 44 years. 30th December 1881.
THOMAS HARRISON, aged 2 weeks. 14th September 1885.
ROBERT HARRISON, aged 2 months. 22nd October 1885.
THOMAS STEEL, aged 75 years. 14th September 1939.
RACHEL STEELE, aged 100 years. 5th August 1966.

The registered owners, in Victorian times, were Thomas Steel & Margaret Haddow.

Would Rachel's father have been John Hamilton, aged 32 years when he died in 1877? Parents names Andrew Hamilton & Smellie.

Also, do these couples fit into your family?
John Hamilton and Elizabeth B. Nisbet?
Peter Nisbet and Jane Melville?


As for Liddells and Binnies, they are my direct ancestors, mainly from Muiravonside, Polmont and Slamannan (all in Stirlingshire). PM me if you think you have a link to them.

[Lodger]

Doolittle, just one more entry in the gravedigger's day book for that plot, probably not much use to you but, you never know, it may help someone else.

THOMAS STEELE, labourer, Wishaw, aged 66 years. Married.
Parents - Thomas Steele & Margaret Haddow.
Interred in the old churchyard on 12th January 1874.

It's good to find these entries as they are not in the Plot Register, which was only begun a couple of years after this.