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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Mary Dunlop
Hamilton
24 August 1907
93
John
Howie
20 June 1859
82
Hazelden
John
Howie
16 March 1895
84
Hazelden
Robert
Howie
22 June 1894
81
Burnhouse
William
Howie
08 September 1827
13
Hazelden
Martha
Wilson
31 July 1872
94
Hazelden

Relatives: Wife of John Howie (Jnr) Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 2 Breadth: 1 Depth: 0.47 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Scott & Rae, Glasgow Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

IN MEMORY OF

JOHN HOWIE OF HAZELDEN
WHO DIED 20TH JUNE 1859
AGED 82 YEARS
MARTHA WILSON HIS WIFE
WHO DIED 31ST JULY 1872
AGED 94 YEARS
THEIR SONS
WILLIAM HOWIE
WHO DIED 8TH SEPTEMBER 1827
AGED 13 YEARS
ROBERT HOWIE OF BURNHOUSE
WHO DIED 22ND JUNE 1894
AGED 81 YEARS
JOHN HOWIE OF HAZELDEN
WHO DIED 16TH MARCH 1895
AGED 84 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE
MARY DUNLOP HAMILTON
WHO DIED 24TH AUGUST 1907
AGED 93 YEARS

Family History

John Howie, the premier subject of this memorial, was not a native of Mearns. His parents John Howie and Agnes Craig were from North Ayrshire where they had been engaged in farming and inn-keeping.

Young John was to marry his spouse Martha Wilson in her home village of Dundonald in 1808 and the couple initially lived outwith the Mearns.

The family seem to have arrived in the parish sometime around the 1860’s. Three of their sons are commemorated on this stone, William who died as a child of thirteen years, Robert who farmed at Burnhouse Farm for a short period, and John Jnr.

John Jnr. was to marry his second wife, a daughter of the Hamilton’s of Greenbank, named Mary Dunlop Hamilton. This generation did not work the farm but sold off much of the ground to adjacent tenant farmers. One such, John and Jane Clark of Hazelden Mains Farm seemed to have such a close relationship with the Howie family that they included both the Howie and Dunlop names in those given to some of their children.

It is interesting to note that longevity seems to be a strong genetic element in the Howie family with few exceptions.