Hi Doolittle,
Not much more I'm afraid but, every little helps! (I hope).
We've had the old churchyard, the new cemetery and the private walled burial ground.
Now we're at the ancient burial ground at the other end of Cambusnethan parish, at Kirkhill.
This was the site of the original parish church, founded in the 12th - 13th century. That church was abandoned about 1645 and a new one built at the village of Cambusnethan.
However, the burial ground surrounding the original church at Kirkhill was still used for interments of local farmers and workers from the estates of Lord Belhaven & Stenton at Wishaw House and Lockhart of Cambusnethan Priory.
Burials ceased there about 1955 and, although some medieval stones, as well as newer ones have survived, the place has been vandalised to the extreme. It is situated almost on the banks of the river Clyde and is only reached, on foot, by a dirt track.
JANET STRUTHERS, Wishaw, aged 74 years, widow.
Parents - Robert Nisbet & Rachel Murie.
Interred at Clyde burial ground, 10th May 1911.
WILLIAM STRUTHERS, Wishaw, aged 8 months.
Parents - James Struthers & Janet Nisbet.
clyde, 16th May 1878.
STILL BORN MALE STRUTHERS. Wishaw.
Parents - James Struthers & Janet Nisbet.
Clyde, 15th December 1879.
Struthers isn't too local to this area, more of a Borders name, from around Lockerbie, Ecclefechan and towards the English border. Perhaps he worked on one of the local estates or farms here?
Quite a few Nisbet burials in the Cambusnethan records who lived in Shotts, around Stane, Kingshill, Springhill and Torbothie.
Good luck!
Lodger
