Cambusnethan Cemetery Grave Search - Part 1

[Lodger]

Hi Crookedtail, you will not be able to find the exact location of the grave, sorry. Common ground was allocated to paupers, 4 to a plot, once that grave was full they just moved on to the next one. No stones or markers of any kind, and by now the exact location will probably not be known.  The gravediggers may or may not be knowledgeable enough about the lair plan to point you in the general direction, depends on how long they have been working there. Common ground isn't in use any more.
Click on the link to find the cemetery and keep clicking the red star until the street names come up.
http://www.mapquest.co.uk/mq/maps/linkToMap.do?Postcode=ML2+8NP&country=GB&cid=lfmaplink

Lodger.

[Lodger]

Sorry, I should've said to click on the little blue + sign on the left of the map

[crookedtail]

Thanks Lodger,

You have been a angel.....I can't thank you enough for
all you help.....Breaking down that stone all...Crookedtail

[grandma]

Hi Jen. Are you still with us?  . Have just been reading all this and wondering if by any chance you are related to my Fulton.
My ggrandmother was Mary Fulton b.1832, in Kilwinning, Ayr. daughter of William Fulton and Margaret Dickie.
Grandma.

[JenClark]

Hi Grandma,

Yep I am still here 

I have had a look at my family tree and unfortunately the only William Fulton I have is a fellow born in Methven, Perthshire in 1830 who married Isabella Leslie in 1860.....so not your fellow 

Let me know if any of your Fulton's end up in Methven area further back and I can have another look.

Good luck with the search

Jenny

[crookedtail]

Hi,

Could you search for me the following.....

Agnes Merrilees..MN Smith
Died: July 31,1893
Buried: Cambusnethan Parish Church Yard
Lived: @ Thotter Bank,Wishaw
Husband: William
Occurpation: Orchard Tender
don't have his death but probably buried with her....

Thanks...Crooketail

[Lodger]

Agnes Merrilees, housewife, Trotterbank, aged 65 years, married.
Parents - Alexander Smyth and Helen Hamilton.
Interred 3rd Aug 1893 Section C. No 316.

William Merrilees, orchard keeper, Trotterbank, aged 78 years, widower.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and Agnes rodger.
Interred 10th April 1900 Section C. No 316.

Just in case you need this one -
Agnes Merrilees, housewife, Erskinebank, aged 78 years, widow.
Parents - William Rodger and Agnes Kilpatrick.
Interred in Old graveyard at Carbarns, 15 June 1865.

[crookedtail]

Lodger Hi,

You just blew my mind away....I am so happy to make sure
Agnes was there and also William....BUT also her parents and

the second Agnes that you sent me is the Mother of William
I had NO information on her except her name ....
Agnes Rodgers .....Not at all her parents.....THANK YOU
Her husband should be there somewhere...
Name: Robert
I believe a Orchard Keeper also....
WOOOO...Thank you so very much...Your a hero....
Crookedtail

[Lodger]

Robert Merrilees, farmer, Erskinebank, aged 82 years, married.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and Margaret Fleming.
Interred 4th Sept 1861 at Carbarns.

Robert Merrilees, carter, Gowkthrapple, aged 49 years, married.
Father - Robert Merrilees.
Interred 16th Oct 1861 at Carbarns.

David Merrilees, wagon driver, Wishaw, aged 45 years, married.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and ? Ann?
(transcriber was unsure of the name)
Interred 10th April 1878 at Carbarns.

Alexander Merrilees, labourer, Glasgow, aged 53 years, married.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and Agnes Rodger.
Interred 14th Feb 1879 Old Churchyard.

Agnes Merrilees, housekeeper, Wishaw, aged 64 years, single.
Parents - Robert Merrilees and Agnes Rodger.
Interred 18th Dec 1879 at Carbarns.

John T Merrilees, child, Coltness Mains, aged 2 years.
Parents - John S Merrilees and Catherine Thomson.
Interred 26th April 1877 at Carbarns.

Still Born Female Child, Sneddons Rows.
Parents - David Merrilees and Agnes Prentice.
Interred 20th Sept 1864.

John Merrilees, child, Cambusnethan Colliery, aged 3 years.
Parents - David Merrilees and Agnes Prentice.
Interred 29th Oct 1874 at Carbarns.

Elizabeth C Walls, housewife, Wishaw, aged 21 years, married.
Parents - David Merrilees and Agnes Prentice.
Interred 18th Jan 1881 at Carbarns.

Marion Merrilees aged 68 years.
Interred 10th July 1929 at Carbarns.

No parents given for Marion, sorry. The fact that they are all buried at Carbarns is a strong indication that they are all from the one family. It is such an out of the way place, not even a proper road and although it was the original parish churchyard it wasn't classed as such after the church there was abandoned in the mid 17th century. The new church, built around 1645 - 50, was situated at Cambusnethan village and it is that churchyard (what I now refer to as Old Churchyard) that adjoins the new cemetery.
Carbarns was used less and less as time went on and in the end it was only estate workers of Lord Belhaven who were buried there, also local farmers from the area along the river Clyde. Erskinebank would fall into the latter category but I have no idea where Trotterbank was, although the whole area from Carbarns to Garrion Bridge was dotted with orchards, many of them still there.