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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #18 on: Monday 12 May 08 17:29 BST (UK) »
Bob,
to remove your email, enter the thread and scroll down to the post with your email in it.  Click on "modify" at the top right of the post, change your post and then click "save" at the bottom of the post.

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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 13 May 08 05:48 BST (UK) »
Thanks Dave,
I will see if I can get a plot number.

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Gunn, Cree, Reid,McNeice, Munro, McPhee
Jackson, Gillies,Gebbie. McCredie, nicolson, McAskill,
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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 24 July 08 19:27 BST (UK) »
Hello, I've just discovered this forum. 

Without wanting to step on anyone's toes, I'm also local to the Cathcart area and familiar with Cathcart Cemetery.  As daval says though , it is a huge cemetery so I thought you might appreciate a hand!  Also it's one of the most ill kept I've come across.  Many of the stones are face down, overgrown or in generally poor condition, particularly in the Cathcart section.  The Linn section (the more modern bit) is much better though.  If you have a section and grave reference I can also take pics since I'm there often walking the dog.

My dad is currently photographing the war graves (I believe apanderson is a member of the Scottish war graves forum too?) and as he goes he has started taking ex-pat graves for just this purpose.  I thought I'd post a list of those he has so far.  None of the names posted above are there yet, but it is a work in progress.  If you want pics let me know.

AUSTRALIA:

BENNIE, William Todd (d. 1888, Sydney)
COUGHTRIE, James (d. 1966 husband of GOVAN, Elizabeth)
CRAIG, Joseph Jackson (1903-1931, interred S. Australia)
FRASER, John (d. 1935, Perth)
GOVAN, Elizabeth (d. 1929, Newcastle.  Wife of COUGHTRIE, James)
HARRINGTON, Cecil Paxton (d. 1889, Albany)
LOCKHART, Blair (killed in AUstralia 1943)
MURRAY, James (d. 1934, Sydney, parents James Murray + Agnes Boyle)
NIVEN, John (late of Melbourne, died in Rothesay, Scotland 1900)
OLIVER, Cecil Archibald (served in Aust. Exp. Force d. Flanders 1917.  Also see OLIVER under Canada)


NEW ZEALAND:

ALLAN, James (d. 1908, Dunedin)
DUNCAN, Dr. John P. (d. 1955 also see DUNCAN under Canada)
FYFE, John Stalker (d. 1904, Auckland)
KERR, John (d. 1927, Hunterville)
MCLACHLAN, Charles Alexander (d. 1909, Hamilton)
TOD, Alfred Saxton (d. 1955, Timaru, cremated Christchurch) + wife YATES, Margaret
YATES, Margaret (d. Christchurch) + husband TOD, Alfred Saxton


CANADA:

BURGESS, James (d. 1933, Toronto)
CHRISTIE, David (d. 1952 married to Ethel Glover)
DUNCAN, Erskine + Wilfred E. P (d. 1939, Toronto. Also see DUNCAN under New Zealand)
FARWELL, Charles Bowers (b. Sherbrooke, Quebec 1868, d. Glasgow 1906)
GOODALL, William (d. 1932, Toronto. Husband of Agnes Mclaren)
HENDRY, Annie (d. 1921, Montreal)
LE SAGE, Helen Marie (married name NEWLANDS. d. 1933, Montreal)
MACKAY, Abigail (married name MCGOUN. b. 1861, Toronto, d. 1927, London)
MADDOCK, William (WW1 casualty, Newfoundlander)
MILLAR, William (d. 1913, Saskatoon [sic])
MITCHELL, Arrol (d. 1964)
MORTON, Archie + Davie (d. 1938. Presumably children, parents John + Helen Robertson)
OLIVER, Helen E. (d. 1962, Toronto.  Also see OLIVER under Australia)
SMITH, Alexander Davie (d. 1910)
THORNE, Mary (married to Alexander Neil FLEMING d. 1995)
WHYTE, Mary Stuart (d. 1906, Winnipeg, age 2, parents Alexander S. + Christina Rae)


U.S.A.

ARCHIBALD, Ada (married name MCFARLANE, d. 1998 Scottsdale, Arizona)
BARRIE, William (d. 1939, interred Oakland, California, parents Allan Barrie + Mary McLuckie )
CRAIK, James Michie (d. 1869, Wisconsin)
MCFARLANE, James Stewart (d. 2001, Santa Clara, California, husband of ARCHIBALD, Ada)
NAISMITH, Thomas (d. 1938, Longbeach, California)
SHIRRIFFS, William (d. 1965, Austin, Texas)
WATT, John (d. 1912, New Orleans)
WHELAN, Margaret (married to John Whelan d. 1957, interred Washington Mem. Park, Paramus, New Jersey)
YOUNG, Robert (d. 1920, Denver)


SOUTH AFRICA

COWAN, David (d. 1907, Cape Town)
FORBES, Charles (d. 1924.  mother Elspeth Tillery Forbes)
HARRINGTON, Edward M. (d. 1897, Johannesburg)
HARVEY, John (d. 1867, Payta, age 27.  Parents Robert + Margaret Finlay)
KERR, Myrtle Dorothy (d. 1901, age 2.  Parents Alex. + Maggie Kerr of Naauwpoort, Cape Colony)
STEWART, Donald Campbell (d. 1903, Johannesburg)







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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 24 July 08 20:19 BST (UK) »
Hi damnonii,

Yes, it's me - here and on the Scottish War Graves Project- I pop up everywhere!

Is you dad Jim McG....... by any chance? (I had a wee sneaky peek to see who was doing Cathcart  ;) ) Tell him I said hello!!

Once Dave catches up with this thread I'm sure he'll be quite happy that someone else is joining in.

Anne

P.S. Welcome to Rootschat

P.P.S. I never did find any Houstons in New Monkland



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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 24 July 08 20:49 BST (UK) »
Hi Anne, thanks for your welcome.  Yes I'm a McG born and bred, been touring war memorials ever since I can remember (and inevitably I became a history student, got into genealogy and got roped into all the war stuff  ;D lol)
Thank you for having a go at looking for the Houstons, Dad said you had no luck.  Sent a letter to the Cemeteries department  but who knows how long that will take. Ah well, we'll get it eventually. 

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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 24 July 08 21:47 BST (UK) »
You'll probably have a long wait!

There are workers at New Monkland Monday - Friday so if you could manage over then, they're usually really helpful.

If that's not possible, send me what info you have by PM and I can pop over sometime during the week. I've been there that often that the guys know me so they'll know what to expect when they see me coming (and probably run in the opposite direction). I'm joking of course, I've always found them to be a really nice bunch.

I traipsed the length and breadth of New Monkland when I was doing the war graves but I could easily have overlooked a Houston stone.

Anne

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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #24 on: Friday 25 July 08 02:30 BST (UK) »
Hi damnonii.

Thanks for the offer - It IS a huge cemetery.

Your avatar - is it this at a different time of year?

 
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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #25 on: Friday 25 July 08 14:00 BST (UK) »
Indeed it is she, taken spring last year I think.  Cemeteries are great for photos aren't they?
Got some more here if you're interested: http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562712337TrqXCB
a bit amateur though, lol. 


p.s. could I get an update on who you've got and who you're still looking for for people, and I can keep my eyes peeled too? 

Cheers, Lora. 

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Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« Reply #26 on: Friday 25 July 08 20:57 BST (UK) »
todays dog walk got -

EDGAR, Douglas Hamilton (1898-1970) + wife Catherine (1902-1986)

POLLOCK, George Hill (1858-1936) + wife Jemima Simpson Lochhead (1859-1935)
also John Pollock McPhin J.P. (d. 1940)
and Mary Pollock (d. 1943), wife of David Lyons White

I'd be very surprised if I managed to get a right one, but you never know.

enough for today, I'm off to fry my brain watching big brother  :)