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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 29 September 12 10:10 BST (UK) »
Sorry, My mind is mince today.  It's James Paterson (not Thomson)!  All the other information is the same.

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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #28 on: Saturday 29 September 12 10:18 BST (UK) »
Pics are
William Porteous and wife Margaret Ford
Adam Porteous and wife Marion Duncan

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Andrew Hamilton and wife Mary Paterson

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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #29 on: Saturday 29 September 12 20:49 BST (UK) »
Many thanks for that.  Unfortunately, it looks as though the family isn't buried in Bothwell Parish Churchyard so it's back to the drawing board.

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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #30 on: Saturday 29 September 12 22:08 BST (UK) »
They may be buried in Bothwell churchyard as there are a lot of illegible headstones but as they lived at Knowehead Farm which was in Uddingston they could be in Bothwellpark cemetery in Bellshill


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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #31 on: Sunday 30 September 12 09:01 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that information.  I'll give Bellshill a go.

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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #32 on: Sunday 30 September 12 09:36 BST (UK) »
Many thanks for that.  Unfortunately, it looks as though the family isn't buried in Bothwell Parish Churchyard so it's back to the drawing board.

They could easily be buried there but not commemorated on a stone.
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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #33 on: Sunday 30 September 12 11:17 BST (UK) »
I suspect that they would have had a stone as  James seems to have been a reasonably prosperous butcher but maybe not.

Mind you, I can't find him dying in Lanarkshire so maybe they moved away.

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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #34 on: Sunday 30 September 12 11:27 BST (UK) »
Have you checked the marriage records of his children to see when he was recorded as deceased?

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Re: Bothwell churchyard
« Reply #35 on: Sunday 30 September 12 12:19 BST (UK) »
I know he was alive in 1933 and his children were married by then.  I've looked at every likely death in Lanarkshire after that without success and hoped he might have been buried back near his old home and be on a tombstone.   I'll try North Lanarkshire burial adminstration to see if I can find his wife's grave and that might narrow the search.

Thanks for all the help and advice.  If I find him it'll be one more off the very long list!