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Relatives: Father of Robert Young Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 0.4 Length: 2.77 Breadth: 0.16 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. 71 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

TOP FACE

ERECTED BY ROBERT YOUNG FARMER BOGTON EAST KILBRIDE 1839

EAST FACE
IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER
ROBERT YOUNG LATE OF KIRKHOUSE
OF MEARNS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 28TH AUG 1838 AGED 66 YEARS

Family History

Lack of information concerning the past history of the occupant and donor of this grave is more than made up for by the interest which surrounds the style of the monument.

The memorial is dedicated to a man named Robert Young of Kirkhouse of Mearns. The Young family had been long-time tenants of the farm at North Moorhouse in the Parish of Eaglesham. North Moorhouse was to be found to the east of Bonnyton and Bogton farms on the boundary of Mearns.

Robert born in 1792 may have had a very hard life trying to wrest a living from the soil at North Moorhouse as he was only to live to the age of forty-six years before being laid beneath this interesting memorial. His son Robert was responsible for its erection and perhaps its design, although it is not unique in the graveyard.

The monument is one of a very few similar shaped stones scattered around Mearns Kirkyard. Thin and linear in shape, the stones whilst extending to some six feet or so in length rarely amount to more that one foot in height. Along the face of this stone which is designed to have three distinct segments or faces, the inscription commemorating the deceased is to be found on the middle or centre segment.
The other two segments are unadorned. The details relating to son Robert responsible for its erection are inscribed along the slim edge at the top of the stone.

Experts are divided over why such peculiar stones should have been constructed to mark a grave and opinions differ between them being markers of territory assigned to that family not to be used by others to low wind resistance thus avoiding the stone being blown or pushed down. Whatever the reason it is an interesting monument to examine and compare with more traditional memorials.