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Relatives: Wife of James Strang . Stone Condition: Sound Material: Marble Height: 2 Breadth: 1 Depth: 0.42 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: C. Mellon, Hawkhead Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
JAMES STRANG, SHAW
WHO DIED 24TH NOVR 1874 IN HIS 55TH YEAR
HIS WIFE ANN CRAIG
DIED 16TH JUNE 1899 IN HER 74TH YEAR
THEIR SON ROBERT
DIED 11TH FEBY 1874 IN HIS 8TH YEAR
THEIR DAUGHTER MARION
DIED 10TH JANY 1905 IN HER 40TH YEAR
THEIR SON WILLIAM
DIED 8TH DECR 1908 IN HIS 40TH YEAR
THEIR DAUGHTER HELEN
DIED 3RD JULY 1936 IN HER 74TH YEAR
THEIR DAUGHTER ANN
DIED 8TH FEBY 1940 IN HER 86TH YEAR
THEIR DAUGHTER JANE
DIED 10TH DECR 1940 IN HER 81ST YEAR
THEIR DAUGHTER MARGARET
DIED 11TH FEBY 1942 IN HER 84TH YEAR


“THY WILL BE DONE”

Family History

The family listed on this memorial were over the greater part of the 19th century well known farmers within the Mearns district.
James Strang, the father of this group, was the child of James Strang and Elizabeth Jamieson who farmed at Bonnyton in Eaglesham Parish. James was born at that farm in 1820. The family by 1840 had moved west to the farm of Hazeldenhead within the Parish of Mearns.

On 14th July 1848, James married Ann Craig who came from a large farming family based at Burnhouse Farm not far from Hazeldenhead. Before long the family started arriving and James acquired the farm of Shaw. This sixty-two acre farm was situated to the north of Townhead Farm and south-east of Ayr Road.
The farm became renowned for its milk and dairy products to the extent that a local historian wrote of the Strang sisters being the last people to churn their own butter which James Lambie a neighbour, had sold from a cart in Glasgow.

The Strang sisters were part of a family of seven children born to this couple. One of the girls Ann was intending to marry another farmer Arthur Gilmour of nearby Townhead Farm. Unfortunately her mother Ann Craig, who was described as a redoubtable lady, was against the marriage and on a visit to Townhead Farm had noted its poorly maintained condition and so forbade the marriage.

On the death of her husband in 1874 Ann took on the running of the farm with the aid of her large family. James had suffered from pleurisy for ten days before his death aged fifty-five years. Ann continued managing the farm with the aid of four unmarried daughters and bachelor son William, until her death from a cerebral haemorrhage in 1899 aged seventy-four years.

William and his four sisters Annie, Margaret, Helen and Marion continued operating the farm until William tragically died in 1908 aged only thirty-nine years. He had suffered a perforated ulcer which developed into peritonitis which caused his death.