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Monument Inscription
Family History
This headstone bears no inscription but it seems probable that it was intended as a memorial to a member of the Hamilton family - perhaps the third son of John Hamilton and Susan Dunlop, William Dunlop Hamilton (1823-1906), who married Frances Murdoch of Langbank, Newton Mearns, in 1863.
William and Frances Hamilton lived for a time in Montreal where their four sons were born. Returning to Scotland following the death of his brother John, William rejoined the family law practice of J. & J. Hamilton in St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
On the death of his brother James he inherited Greenbank Estate and managed it until his death in 1906. William and his wife Frances are buried in Eastwood (Old) Cemetery.
His eldest son, John Laurence Hamilton (1863-1950), then managed the estate until his death when it passed to his nephew, Sheriff James Barclay Murdoch Young, who died in 1957. Sheriff Young was a descendant of James Barclay Murdoch (1831-1906) who owned Capelrig House, one of the 18th century ‘big houses’ in Mearns.
Capelrig House, which stands in the grounds of Eastwood High School, was built c.1769 for Robert Barclay, a Glasgow lawyer, and was described as a “neat handsome house, three storeys high, rustic cornered with eleven steps of a stone stair up to the front door”.