Robert Merrilees, farmer, Erskinebank, aged 82 years, married.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and Margaret Fleming.
Interred 4th Sept 1861 at Carbarns.
Robert Merrilees, carter, Gowkthrapple, aged 49 years, married.
Father - Robert Merrilees.
Interred 16th Oct 1861 at Carbarns.
David Merrilees, wagon driver, Wishaw, aged 45 years, married.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and ? Ann?
(transcriber was unsure of the name)
Interred 10th April 1878 at Carbarns.
Alexander Merrilees, labourer, Glasgow, aged 53 years, married.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and Agnes Rodger.
Interred 14th Feb 1879 Old Churchyard.
Agnes Merrilees, housekeeper, Wishaw, aged 64 years, single.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and Agnes Rodger.
Interred 18th Dec 1879 at Carbarns.
John T Merrilees, child, Coltness Mains, aged 2 years.
Parents - John S Merrilees and Catherine Thomson.
Interred 26th April 1877 at Carbarns.
Still Born Female Child, Sneddons Rows.
Parents - David Merrilees and Agnes Prentice.
Interred 20th Sept 1864.
John Merrilees, child, Cambusnethan Colliery, aged 3 years.
Parents - David Merrilees and Agnes Prentice.
Interred 29th Oct 1874 at Carbarns.
Elizabeth C Walls, housewife, Wishaw, aged 21 years, married.
Parents - David Merrilees and Agnes Prentice.
Interred 18th Jan 1881 at Carbarns.
Marion Merrilees aged 68 years.
Interred 10th July 1929 at Carbarns.
No parents given for Marion, sorry. The fact that they are all buried at Carbarns is a strong indication that they are all from the one family. It is such an out of the way place, not even a proper road and although it was the original parish churchyard it wasn't classed as such after the church there was abandoned in the mid 17th century. The new church, built around 1645 - 50, was situated at Cambusnethan village and it is that churchyard (what I now refer to as Old Churchyard) that adjoins the new cemetery.
Carbarns was used less and less as time went on and in the end it was only estate workers of Lord Belhaven who were buried there, also local farmers from the area along the river Clyde. Erskinebank would fall into the latter category but I have no idea where Trotterbank was, although the whole area from Carbarns to Garrion Bridge was dotted with orchards, many of them still there.