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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Lodger on Thursday 31 May 12 11:20 BST (UK)
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I passed this beautiful country church and churchyard on Monday afternoon and just had to stop and take some photographs. The weather was wonderful but the sun was in the wrong position to take too many pictures (or, I should have arrived 4 hours earlier). Here is a list of surnames of the ones I managed to capture. Anyone who would like to have a copy of a particular stone(s) send me your email address by PM.
LIBBERTON & QUOTHQUAN CHURCHYARD.
Erskine-Hill & Colville.
Wilson & Dalglish.
Gibson & Sibbald.
Smith, Wilson & Newbigging.
McMorran & Smith.
Thomson & Brown (in Latin).
Gray, Thomson & Gardner.
Black & Tod.
Veitch & Gilbert.
Weir & Mathieson.
Allan, Newbigging & Anderson.
Rev Alexander Craik.
Walker, Graham, Henderson & Cossar.
Calder, Cossar & Murdoch.
Donaldson, Watson & Muir.
Stien & Forrest.
Brown, Inch, Rowat, Brown & White.
Logan, Wilkinson & Marshall.
Gladstone memorial plaque. (William Ewart Gladstone’s ancestors).
Thomson & Forrest.
Smith & Scott.
Aitken & Brown.
Alexander Brown died 1698, son Alexander died 1740 aged 64 years.
Pennie & Mathison.
Newbigging, Pennie, Prentice & Tweedie.
John Snipe (or Snepe) tenant in Arthurshields died 1751 aged 34 years.
Aitken, Stewart & Williamson.
Culbertson & Purdie.
Brown, Alson & White.
John Alson of Brownhill.
Scott & Gibson.
Scott & Graham.
Nicol, Brown & Copland.
Nicol & Barrie.
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Taken on Monday 28th May 2012.
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Hi Lodger
Just checking things as I was looking to add your post to the resources board here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,504605.0.html
There is this showing currently, under Burials and MIs:
Liberton Kirk Churchyard www.libertonkirk.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm (click on Ancestors button on the left) and plan of churchyard here www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=NAS&id=RHP140002
The first link for Liberton Kirk Churchyard looks to have gone now so needs to be edited...
Is your post on the Libberton & Quothquan Parish churchyard and the Liberton Kirk Churchyard one and the same?
Monica :)
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Hi Monica,
Liberton with one B is in Edinburgh, Libberton with double-B is in Lanarkshire (we're always one better than the east coast).
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;D I'll take myself to specsavers really quickly now :P and then go and fix that broken link in Midlothian...!
Monica
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LFHS recently transcribed and photographed all headstones in this cemetery so any that Lodger was unable to get due to the sun will be available from LFHS
http://www.lanarkshirefhs.org.uk/mideath-pubs.html
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Lodger, I would very much like a photo of Rev. Alexander Craik's headstone, please. Will PM you with my address.
Thanks.
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This is the best I can do, when you have a couple more posts you can PM me.
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2nd picture
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Hi
I'm new to this site but would appreciate details on the Scott & Graham headstone or any other Graham ones. My ancestors were Robert Graham (b abt 1785) and Helen Scott. Does this stone fit?
Thanks
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Hi Logcal,
Welcome to rootschat. I don't have a photograph of the headstone you speak of, sorry. That isn't to say that one doesn't exist, I only managed to take a few that day because of the very bright sunshine! (Never thought I'd tell anyone that about the Scottish weather).
The only information I can give is about the Scott - Graham stone and the Scott - Gibson one.
"Erected by James Scott late farmer in Moorhouse of Liberton in memory of Christian Graham his spouse who died January 1819 aged 72 years and 2 of their children interred here. Also the said James Scott who died 19th September 1839 aged 98 years".
"John Scott tenant in Libertoun died 13th March 1785 aged 75 years. His wife Susan Gibson died 6th May 1780 aged 74 years. Their grandson William Scott died 9th August 1783 aged 16 years".
Good luck with your research, sorry I couldn't be of any help.
Lodger
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Lodger
We do get some good days occasionally!. Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'll keep searching.
Logcal
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Hi there,
I'm very interested in any you have bearing the name Tweedie. I have been researching over on ancestry.com and have just signed up here.
I will PM your my email address.
Thanks in advance.
J :)
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Hi JanineB
Welcome to RootsChat :)
You need a couple of posts here on RC before your PM service is activated...
Monica
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Hi Monica.
I did wonder if that was the case as I couldn't see the option!
Thanks for letting me know.
Lodger - if you can upload it here even, that'd be great.
Thanks for the welcome!
Janine
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Hi Janine,
Welcome to Rootschat, here is the only stone I have a picture of with the name Tweedie. The last part reads "James Tweedie their grandson who died June 22nd 1866 aged 10 years".
There may very well be other stones but I don't have a picture of them, sorry.
Lodger
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No problem Lodger,
Many thanks anyway!
Janine
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Evening,
I've recently contact south Lancashire council trying to locate a grave-plot for a relative of mine who is buried in Libberton church yard. She has advised that they don't hold the records for 1911. Any help on how i could find the plot number please?
Thanks
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Hello,
If SLC doesn't have the plot number then no one else will. There is a cemetery next to the old churchyard, have you made it clear to the council which one your ancestor is buried in? There will probably be records for the newer cemetery extention, if I were you I'd go back and ask for it to be checked. It is properly laid out and it is bound to have sections and numbers.
The churchyard, like so many others in the county, doesn't, as far as I know, have burial records.
The sexton (gravedigger) kept it all in his head and it was passed down from father to son that way.
Generations of the same families were sextons in almost all of the churchyards.
This is what the cemetery extention looks like - organised and methodical. Unlike the jumble of 300 years worth of stones in the churchyard.