Cambusnethan Cemetery Grave Search - Part 1

[MoragC]

Hi Lodger,

Last year you provided some excellent information re Catherine Donald, buried in Grave No 519 at Airbles cemetery.

I forgot to ask at the time how I would locate the plot (no headstone, according to a later message from you).

Is there a plot plan I can buy?

I haven't made it there yet to get a photo for her relative in Australia, but will need to get organised and go soon. I thought a general photo of the graveyard might do, but I think she would like a photo of the exact spot - if I can find it!

I've been sidetracked by the plethora of info I've been finding on Ancestry and scotlandspeople without even leaving the house - but the footwork has to begin soon!

MoragC

[Lodger]

Hi Morag,

If you go there during working hours the superintendant will find it for you. His name is Ian Goldie and he is most helpful.
Try and take a note of the section as well as the lair number, it will save him a lot of work looking it up. Telling him it is 519 wont be enough, there will be about 10 519s.

Good luck,

Lodger

[MoragC]

Hi Lodger,

Thanks again for the advice - but I got the Lair number from you, so where do I look up the section number? I know there is a Heritage Centre in Motherwell - would I be able to check it out there?

Sorry to be a perpetual question mark! Hopefully my last on this topic.

MoragC

[Lodger]

Hi Morag,

It isn't Airbles, it's Cambusnethan!

519 in the old "private" walled burial ground next to the old churchyard.
I have a feeling that area is fenced off now, for safety reasons but it's been a while since I've been there.

Lodger.

[vossen]

Back in the spring you gave me information on a number of Laurie family members, including       
Agnes Kennedy Laurie    b. October 26, 1904  Craigneuk, Dalziel   d.  November 23, 1974


Now I am finding out there is a Kennedy ( and Douglas)  connection to the Laurie Family.

William James LAWRIE b. circa 1846, Ireland

Agnes KENNEDY  b.            d.

William James LAWRIE married Agnes KENNEDY on    23, 1865   

There is a record for his marriage as follows: 

Record for 1865 on the 23rd day of            at 34 Sunnyside Rows Wishaw
After banns according to the Forms of the United Presbyterian Church

William James Laurie ( writing appears to have a “w” in the name)
(signed)
Coalminer Bachelor 21   184? Main Street Wishaw

Agnes Kennedy ( signed) Her + mark spinster (Domestic Servant) 20  32 Sunnyside Rows, Wishaw

Father William Laurie - Coalminer
Mother Elizabeth Laurie MS Porter  Deceased

Father James Kennedy Coalminer
Mother Agnes Kennedy M.S. Douglas (deceased)

Minister R. S. Barnes? 
Witnesses Edward Hunter
                 Mary Kennedy (Her + mark)

Registered June 28, 1865 at Wishaw
Thomas Allen Register - Parish of Cambusnethan,


The 1881 Census for the Parish of Cambusnethan and the county of Lanark shows this family living at:

8 Sunnyside Rows in Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scotland
William was 35 as was his wife Agnes at that time. The next census has another woman named Margaret in her place. Can you find me burial information for Agnes and possibly any children she may have had and lost in that time. thank you. Any information on her paretns would also be welcome.

[vossen]

Looking for death certificate or burial info on the following ancestors-
James Little - deceased before 1857
wife Helen Thomson b. circa1800 deceased before 1857

William Nicol (1803?-1869)
Isabella Little Nicol (1800-1857)
1851 Census for the County of Lanark in the Parish and Village of Cambusnethan
March 30, 1851 (birth years extrapolated)
1804     William Nicols     Head   Mar.    49   Collector of Ironworks    b.  Lanark, Crawford?
1806-08 Isabella Nicols   Wife   Mar.   43-45?               b. Dumfries, Sanquhar
1831    Hugh Nicols      Son      20?   Coal Miner  b. Dumfries, Sanquhar
1833    Isabella Nicols      Dau.      18      b. Ayr, Tarbolton
1835   Arch. Nicols      Son      16   Coal Miner b. Ayr, Tarbolton
1839   Alex Nicols      Son      12   Coal Miner b.Ayr, Tarbolton
1843   George Nicols      Son       8   Scholar   b. Ayr, Tarbolton
1846   Ann Nicols      Dau.       5      b. Ayr, Tarbolton
1848    William Rodger   Grand Son    3      b. Lanark, Cambusnethan

[vossen]

Looking for death or burial information on the following family:
George Nicol
Locomotive Foreman,
married to Ann Maertins,

William Laurie  1828 - 1891  -b. Ireland
D. 1891 Scotland
m. Elizabeth Porter 1820-1864
Son William James born in Ireland c 1845-46
 
Thomas Smellie and Ann Lynch (Great Great Grandparents)
Wedding record for Peter Smellie and Margaret Nicol indicated that Peter was born at Overtown.
Dad’s name Thomas Smellie is a roadman underground
Mother’s name is Ann Smellie M.S. Lynch . She is deceased by that time (1870)

Ann Lynch was deceased by 1870. Her son Peter was born in 1848 and was 22 when he was married to Margaret Nicol in 1870

The 1841 census shows Ann,  at 35,  married to Thomas who is also 35.
This would put their date of birth at 1806 for both of them.

1851 Census
James Kennedy Head 28  Coalminer                  b. Lanark Cambusnethan
Agnes  Douglas Kennedy Wife 26  Coalminer’s Wife    b. Lanark Cambusnethan
Agnes Kennedy Daug  6             b. Lanark Cambusnethan  (b. 1845?)    
John Kennedy      Son  4            b. Lanark Cambusnethan ( b. 1847?)   
Mary Kennedy    Daug 2                      b. Lanark Cambusnethan

1861 Census

The undermentionned houses are situated within the boundaries of the Parish of Motherwell/ Quod Sacra Parish of Holytown, Hamlet of Old Canbroe

It shows the following living at 5 Old Canbroe Row
James Kennedy    37 Coalminer          Born Stirling, Campion    (1824)
Margaret Kennedy    25 Coalminer’s Wife       Born Lanark, Cambusnethan (1836)

Agnes Douglas Kennedy - should have been born around 1825
James Kennedy  should be born about 1823





“Peter Kennedy Schoolmr and Helen Kirk Spouses at Hilltown had a lawful son born named James.”

[vossen]

Looking for death certificates or burial records for the following family:
Thomas Frame and Margaret Rickell ( Great Great Grandparents)
These are the parents of Jane Frame (Nicol) as shown on her death certificate in 1904. Thomas is listed as a gravedigger (deceased).

Found a marriage record in parish records of Lanark, Dalserf for a : “24th September, 1814 -Thomas Frame and Margaret Orr both of this parish”  - Dalserf keeps coming up for Jane Frame Nicol and James – but death certificate for Margaret indicates MS Rickell – was she a widow when she married Thomas Frame???   Also found a record for a Thomas Frame and Margaret Ruffhead – was there a spelling error or name change???


James Nicol and Jane Nicol (Frame)  Great Great Grandparents

James is listed as a coalminer on his daughter’s marriage certificate.
There is no record of baptism or birth for James in 1824-29 in any of the parishes.
There is no record of his parents in the 1841 census…

1841 Census
Indicates that James was born c 1827 at Lanark, Dalserf

Jane was still alive when her husband died in 1879 at 54 years of age.
Her daughter, Margaret Nicol married Peter Smellie.


1851 Census
Cambusnethan Household # 85

James Nicol (married)    Head    25       Coalminer       born in Dumfries
Sanquhar Died June 15 1879 9h15mPM Steel’s LandCaledonian Road

Jean Nicol                 wife     21       Muslin Sewer at home born Lanark Dalziel?
1861 Census (birth years estimated from ages)
Living at 9_ Cambusnethan, Village of Cambusnethan
b. 1826 James Nicole    M    Head       35    Coalminer    b. Dumfries
b, 1830 Jane Nicole    M    Wife       (34? 31?)       b. Dalziel?
b. 1852 Isabella Nicole    Daugh         9    scholar    Lanark Cambusnethan
b. 1853 Margaret Nicole    Daugh        8    scholar    Lanark Cambusnethan
b. 1857 William Nicole    Son           3    scholar    Lanark Cambusnethan
b. 1860 Thomas Nicole    Son        9 mos                  Lanark Cambusnethan

[vossen]

Is there any information on death cerrtificates or burials for the following family - other than Joseph...

1881 Census - information taken from census - birthdates extrapolated

Agnes  Kennedy Laurie    b, 1866    - 15
William James Laurie   b. 1872      - 9
Margaret   Laurie b, 1877      - 4
Joseph     Laurie b 1877      - 4 (likely twins) (buried in Airbles)
Elizabeth    Laurie b 1879        2
 
Thomas Laurie    b 1881        8 days