Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW

[Lodger]

Hello Kallcoat and welcome to Rootschat.

The wife's maiden surname is really important to searching cemetery and other records but, I do think I have found your gt-grandfather and his family.
From the records of the Private Walled Burial Ground at Cambusnethan. (Situated between the old churchyard and the municipal cemetery).
I don't have a photograph of the headstone (if one ever existed) but here are the entries from the gravediggers Day Book, for plot 476 in the "Private".
All dates are of interment, so the death would have occurred a few days previously.

JEANIE PENDER, housewife, Cambusnethan, aged 20 years, married.
Parents - William Ross & Elizabeth Percival.
Interred in 476 on 8th December 1873.

WILLIAM PENDER, Cambusnethan, aged 2 months.
Parents - John Pender & Jeanie Ross.
476 on 1st January 1874.

JOHN PENDER, coal miner, Hamilton, aged 25 years, married.
Parents - William Pender & Elizabeth Dunbar.
476 on 7th December 1877.

What a very unfortunate family and December was a very unlucky month for them!
I wonder if John was involved in a mining accident? His name doesn't appear on the 1877 list on the Scottish Mining website.

Do you have a date of death for Elizabeth Dunbar? There is an Elizabeth Pender aged 71 years who died 1888, interred in the old churchyard in a family plot owned by a family named Allerdyce. Perhaps a married daughter?
Pender isn't a common name in these registers, no sign of William pre-1861.
It looks as if they were new to the parish, according to the 1851 census index William was born in Dumfriesshire, Elizabeth in Kilsyth and a son Alexander aged 13 years, also in Kilsyth.

If William did die before 1861 and is buried in Cambusnethan he will be in the old churchyard. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a headstone which has survived and there are no written records for the churchyard prior to about 1875, apart from the monumental inscriptions.
Percival is a very unusual name in this area, there are records for children of Hugh Percival & Mary Steel and also for Hugh Hamilton & Marion Percival.

Hope this has helped a little?

Good luck with your research,

Lodger

[kall]

Hi Lodger
Yes that is the correct family. John had a brain bleed whilst on his way home from work and agree that they were an unlucky family. John had a sister Janet or Jessie who married an Allardice so yes that would be my Elisabeth.
Thankyou ever so much for that
Karen

[JPF]

Hello again Lodger

Many thanks for the HUTTON, & WILLIAMS photos.  As well as the burial details & explanation. It is much appreciated.

JPF

[Lodger]

Hi Karen,

Here are the details from the Allardice plot, no Day Book exists for the period covering the interments, so no parents names. All Allardice family apart from Elizabeth but, it's always good to have some twigs on your branches.

Plot owner (In Victorian times) was A. Allardice.
In the South lair -
ALEXANDER ALLARDICE, aged 70 years. Interred on 26th January 1895.
JESSIE ALLARDICE, aged 79 years. 1st April 1932.
in the Centre lair -
ELIZABETH PENDER, aged 71 years. 19th October 1888.
JANE L. ALLARDICE, aged 13 months. 27th December 1892.
In the North lair -
ANN ALLARDICE, aged 70 years. 20th January 1895.
ANDREW ALLARDICE, aged 72 years. 7th April 1923.

There is a monumental inscription for this plot but I don't have a photograph of the stone, so it may not have survived from 1983 when the inscription was taken. I'll check it out.
The details are -
"Andrew Allardice died 5th April 1923 aged 72 years. His wife Jessie Pender died 30th March 1932 aged 79 years. Their son George Allardice, killed in Action 26th September 1916 aged 25 years".


There is one entry in the municipal cemetery (my records end at 1917).

ALEXANDER ALLARDICE, coal miner, Polmaise, Stirlingshire. Aged 40 years, married.
Parents - Andrew Allardice & Jessie Pinder. Interred in E532 on 23rd September 1912.

[kall]

Hi Lodger
Thanks for that.....can fill in some blanks now.....keep going off on a tangent though. I know you couldn't find anything on William Pender....Elizabeth's husband.....that man is driving me nuts haha..
Will just have to keep searching....it took me ages to find John so hoping that I will eventually find his father
Do you look at any other graveyards or stick to Cambusnethan
Thanks again for your time
Karen

[Lodger]

What other graveyards do you have in mind Karen?
I think William will be in Cambusnethan churchyard, possibly in Common Ground, that would explain why Elizabeth is in the Allardice plot. William may well be in that plot too, there's no way of knowing since no records exist for that time period. You see how many are in there since records commenced in the mid-1870s, at least 6 burials compared to 2 names on the stone.

[kall]

Didn't have any one in mind was just curious if you have covered any other..I have Hamilton family and Forrest family from Hamilton.

[Lodger]

I have the MIs for Hamilton parish churchyard, also some baptism records for the 1st Relief Congregation Church.

[kall]

I am looking for Abraham Hamilton born 1820 married to Margaret Forrest born 1819. My direct ancestor who I am struggling to find a record of her birth is Margaret Forest Hamilton born either 1852 or 1853 in Hamilton.  I know that she moved to America to live with her daughter Jeanie. Margaret was married to the earlier mentioned John Pender.....she remarried the year after John died to a chap called Lawrence Kemp
Thanks again
Karen