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Relatives: Son of William Perratt and Christina Patrick Wear Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 0.9 Breadth: 0.51 Depth: 0.2 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

IN MEMORY
OF
CHRISTINA PATRICK WEAR
BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM PERRATT
NORTH HILLHEAD FARM
DIED 17TH NOVEMBER 1928
AGED 67 YEARS
AND THEIR SON
JOHN 8TH BATT C.E.F.
KILLED IN ACTION 14TH JUNE 1916
WILLIAM PERRATT
DIED 19TH JULY 1950
IN HIS 92ND YEAR

Family History

The farm at North Hillhead was to be found only a few miles south of the village of Newton Mearns and consisted of 40 acres of arable land bordering on moorland further to the south.

The farm would have carried a milk herd in common with many such establishments in the area. During the early years of the twentieth century this farm was in the stewardship of one William Perratt. William, a native of Cambusnethan in North Lanarkshire, had been born into the farming family of his father James and his wife Margaret Anderson. William was to marry Christina Patrick Wear, a woman from Cadder a village to the north of Glasgow. Christina’s parents were Robert Wear and wife Agnes Bankier. No official record of this marriage has been discovered in Scottish Records so it may have taken place outwith the jurisdiction of that authority.

Settling at North Hillhead Farm the couple raised their family, amongst who was a son John commemorated on this memorial as being killed in military action in 1916. John it would appear was a member of the 9th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Extensive searches of available records have failed to identify either the action at which John perished or any reference to his name.

William Perratt was to be predeceased by his wife Christina Wear and in due course remarried a lady called Elizabeth Stanfield. William was to live to the advanced age of ninety-one years before passing away. His death was registered by a son Robert who lived at Temples Farm in Eaglesham so continuing the family tradition of farming to yet another generation.

Until recent years there was a well-known milk distributor operating from Merrylee trading as Perratts Dairies, which perhaps was connected directly to this family.