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Relatives: Daughter of Matthew & Agnes Raeburn Stone Condition: Sound Material: Marble Height: 1.54 Breadth: 0.64 Depth: 0.51 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Applique Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

On the cross section of the monument

IN
LOVING
MEMORY
OF
ANNIE S. RAEBURN
DAUGHTER OF
MATTHEW & AGNES RAEBURN
WHO DIED 27TH MAY 1924
AGED
4 1/2
YEARS

SAFE
IN THE ARMS
OF JESUS


On the base section of the monument

THE ABOVE
MATTHEW RAEBURN
DIED 30TH DEC. 1956

Family History

Annie Raeburn died in 1924 at the age of four and a half years having developed acute endocarditis one month previously. Annie was the first child of Matthew and Agnes Raeburn nee Stewart who were married in 1919 in the United Free Church manse in Newton Mearns.
Her father Matthew whose name is inscribed on the base of this monument was the janitor Mearns school during the 1940’s and 50’s. A son of James and Agnes Raeburn (nee Roxburgh), he was born in 1887 in the village of Newton Mearns. On leaving school Matthew worked in the local bleachfield at Netherplace as did his father, two of his brothers and a sister. In 1901 his father James was employed as a labourer and his brother George as a starch maker. His brother James worked in the boiler house, his sister Maggie worked as an ‘airer’ and Matthew at the age of fourteen was employed as a storekeeper.

The cloth processing works were a major source of employment in Mearns from the late 1700’s into the 20th century, attracting many incomers from the Highlands and Islands. Seven such works dedicated to bleaching or to calico printing developed in the Parish over this period. These works were to be found at Netherplace, Tofts, Wellmeadow, Greenfield, Balgray, Broom and Hazelden. Hazelden latterly specialised in silk printing.

The cause of young Annie’s death, acute endocarditis, was most probably caused by rheumatic fever which sometimes followed the onset of scarlet fever – a common cause itself of much debility and death in the pre-antibiotic era.