CAMBUSNETHAN PRIVATE BURIAL GROUND

[Lodger]

I have some photographs of headstones from this burial ground. It was opened in 1861 by a private company and lies between the old churchyard and the municipal cemetery (also opened about 1861).
Anyone wanting a copy of any of these pictures please send me a PM. there are good interment records for this ground and I have copies up until about 1917 with a few gaps.

ALLISON & HILL.
ANDERSON, CRAIG, CAMPBELL & BACHOP.
BALLANTYNE & SCOTT.
BINNE, SHANKS & PENDER.
BRAND & FYFE.
CALDERHEAD & WATSON.
COCHRANE & SCOTT.
DAVIDSON & LOUDON.
DICK, 3 sisters (children of Wm Dick & Marion Calderhead).
DICK, TODD & MAXWELL.
DONALDSON & DICK.
DUNCAN Family of Cairneyhead & Stane.
FRASER & THOMSON.
GRAY, RUSSELL & CARMICHAEL.
HAMILTON & DUNCAN.
HAMILTON, REID , SMITH & THOMSON.
HAMILTON Robert, surgeon of Bonkle
HENRY & MARTIN.
LINDSAY & RUSSELL.
LITTLEJOHN & BELL.
LITTLEJOHN, MILLIGAN, BELL, RUSSELL, McGREGOR & BRYCE.
MAIN & GIBB.
MARTIN, minister of RP Church.
McARTHUR & COUTTS.
McCALLUM, MCLEISH & YOUNG.
MILLER & WILSON of Ayrshire & East Kilbride.
MILLIGAN & NIMMO.
MORE, AITKEN & MILLER.
MUIR & JAMESON.
MUNRO, sisters, daughters of Rev Munro.
NISBET, YOUNG, RANKINE, RUSSELL & RICHMOND.
PATERSON, REID & MITCHELL.
PATERSON, RUSSELL & MORRISON.
PRENTICE, BLACK & SHANKS.
REID & CLARKSON.
REID & SIBBALD.
SCOTT, HALLIDAY & LOUDON.
SCOTT, McCOMB, LEES & YOOL.
SMITH & BLACK.
SOMMERVILLE & FRASER.
SOMMERVILLE, LINDSAY, STEEL & STORIE.
STEVENSON, MACAULAY, McIVOR, McNICOL & THOMSON.
STRAIN & LOUDON.
THOMSON, CLELAND & BROWN.
THOMSON & STEEL.
WILLIAMS & RICE.

[jodie1]

  :)Hi I would like the photographs of the littlejohn & Bell family from this cemetery. Do you still have them? Thanks ,Jodie

[Lodger]

Hi Jodie,
Yes, I still have the photographs. This is a double plot, numbers 6 & 7 and the gravestones are plaques pinned onto the perimeter wall. As you will see, one plaque is in excellent condition and the other is very difficult to read. If you are certain that this is the family you are looking for I will go back (as soon as it stops raining) and transcribe the illegible one. I can also give you the burial entries from the register but, until you confirm that you want them, I will hold off.

Lodger.

[jodie1]

hi , the top plaque looks like it could be the one I am after. I can vaguely read Archibald on their and that was one of their children. If you can transcribe it one day for me that would be great . thanks

[Lodger]

Hi Jodie, both plaques belong to the same family, Walter and James were probably brothers. father & son.

As far as I can make out, the first plaque reads -
"Erected by Jane Bell in memory of her beloved husband James Littlejohn who died 27th January 1876 aged 56 years.
Archibald their son died 15th February 1883 aged 20 years.
Martha Aitken their (only?) daughter died ? January 1887 aged 18 years.
Walter their youngest son died ?? July ?? aged 20 years".
The rest is probably the detail for Jane Bell but I can't read it.

If this is definitely the right family I have much more information I can give you. There is a headstone in the old churchyard that I have an inscription for (the stone may have gone by now). It is for Archibald Littlejohn & Marion Paterson, who were the parents of James.

Before I forget Jodie - Welcome to Rootschat!

[jodie1]

Thankyou for the welcome! My Littlejohn's are not these ones. I have Robert  Littlejohn b1794 d1851 in the Parish of Cambusnethan, son of John Littlejohn & Janet Bell. Robert m Isabella Barr who's dates I don't have. Thanks though for your reply, will have to hunt around some more

[Lodger]

I found 2 entries for this family in the Cambusnethan burial records.

JAMES LITTLEJOHN, labourer, Wishaw, aged 82 years, married.
Parents - John Littlejohn & Janet Bell.
Buried in the old churchyard on 10th November 1871.

ARCHIBALD LITTLEJOHN, miner, Wishaw, aged 85 years, widower.
Parents - John Littlejohn & Janet Bell.
Buried in the old churchyard on 20th May 1878.

Where did you find the date of death for Robert who died 1851? The only one I could find was married to Margaret Lawrie.

[jodie1]

Hi the date I had for Robert Littlejohn has come from ancestry. I don't have paper work to confirm it, so it could be incorrect. I have been trying to go back from Robert Littlejohn b 1830 in Wishaw, d 1884 in Sydney. He is my direct relation. He married Mary Inglis 1851 before emigrating. James Littlejohn you have found has the same parents, I didn't have him my tree. I know the parents names are correct

[Wiggy]

Hi Lodger,

I would be very interested to see what you have for the Duncan, and the Hamilton & Duncan families please.

Not sure either are ours but my grandfather called his house Lanark in Victoria, Australia,  believing the family came from that shire.    They would have been before 1800 in Scotland. - don't know if any fit the bill!  I know it is a long shot, but it is one of my brickwalls!      Other info we've found would indicate otherwise - but it is a matter of covering all possibilities.   

Thanks for the generous offer made at the head of this thread.   

Wiggy