Kirkhill burial ground - Cambusnethan parish

[broofer]

Ta again, if its really important to anyone, there were two Thomas Beatie/Beatties, both b Girvan -1813 and 1819. Lodger's date gives an approx. birth date in between. But the 1813 model has mother Esther, which clinches it for him.

[doolittle72]

Hamilton/McAlpine sounds familiar to me, if you please.
Very grateful, Thank you.

[Lodger]

This should be easy enough to read.

[broofer]

I was amazed to find that in 1851 there were 305 tambourers in Cambusnethan,(  but I'm only a man ). The youngest was 7. One of mine was one of the few 9-y-olds.
And 1859 map of Wishaw / Cambusnethan area on https://maps.nls.uk/view/74427707

[broofer]

Answering my own question -
Mary Nicol/Bell/Beattie went to U.S. In their 1880 census she was 60 in Pennsylvania living with one of her Beattie sons, James 19 now spelt Beatty, a coal miner.
The other Beattie son Thomas 22 now spelt Beaty, also a miner, was in the same state, married in US to Ella 19, and they have a baby daughter Mary 0.
When they emigrated I can't find, but if Lodger is correct about old Thomas Beattie having died in 1879, they ( including Thomas ! ) appear to have moved pretty fast.
Already in Pennsylvania was one of Mary's Bell children, Margaret, who had married Robert McDill ( Middle/Medill ) before she emigrated in 1866 along with their young family.
Also in that party was her brother Duncan Bell who had been born after his father Duncan was killed in the Wishaw mine. And Duncan jnr became ......a miner.

[broofer]

   Back to Mary Nicol / Bell / Beattie - What I reckon happened was that her husband Thomas Beattie died in 1879, Mary crossed the Atlantic in May 1880, arriving on SS Ethiopia on 11th May in time to be reunited with one of her Beattie sons in time to be censused with him in June 1880. She eventually died in 1900 in La Salle, Illinois. The best help that I had was from the married name of her daughter Margaret. Margaret married Thomas McDill in Scotland, crossed the Atlantic as 'Middle' and appeared in US as 'Medill', and this family name has been used in US since then in that branch.

[broofer]

OR - Mary crossed the Atlantic on SS State of Nevada, arriving 4 Sep 1879. This followed the death of her 2nd husband Thomas Beattie on 4 Jan 1879. On this ship's list this Mary is "Mrs Nichol" or it might be "Nichols"

[JudyR]

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I recently published, with the original author's kind permission, the 1972 Brownlie transcription of the Old Cambusnethan Kirkyard Monumental transcriptions and included what i could find of additional transcriptions and lists of tombstones. It has name and place indices for 250 names.  The work will be available this summer online at the Allen County Public Library, at familysearch.org, and at various libraries and family history centers.  In the meantime, for those of you who are researching the area currently I would be glad to send the pdf, 88 pages.

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[JudyR]

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