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Relatives: Husband of Elizabeth Mather, Father of Margaret, John, Elizabeth & Mary Cameron Stone Condition: Sound Material: Sandstone Height: 2.5 Breadth: 1.22 Depth: 0.54 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: James McLashan, Glasgow Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED
BY
THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
CONGREGATION NEWTOWN MEARNS
IN MEMORY OF
THEIR LATE LAMENTED MINISTER
THE REVD HUGH STIRLING
WHO WAS ORDAINED 17TH JUNE 1817
DIED 2ND OCTOBER 1856
AGED 64 YEARS

“HE, BEING DEAD,YET SPEAKETH”

ALSO
THE REVD DAVID CAMERON
WHO WAS ORDAINED 27TH SEPT. 1859
DIED 1ST MAY 1884
AGED 54 YEARS

Family History

The Rev. Hugh Stirling was the third minister called to serve the Secession Congregation from, which the present Newton Mearns Church originated in 1739. His ministry in Mearns was to last almost twenty years during which time the Burgher/Antiburgher dispute, which had earlier caused so much dissension in the congregation, was resolved.

Mr Stirling’s death in 1856 in his sixty-forth year seems to have been sudden and unexpected.
There followed an interval of nearly three years before the congregation managed to agree on their choice of his successor, the Rev. David Cameron, whose name is also inscribed on this memorial and on Monument G06.

During Mr Stirling’s ministry the congregation’s third church was built on the Kilmarnock (Ayr) Road in 1836 near Mearns Cross. The previous two church buildings were situated in Main Street.

This new building, known as the Newton Church, had accommodation for four hundred persons. Due to the increase in population of the area in the 1930’s it was demolished and replaced by a larger building with accommodation for seven hundred in 1939. This building, now to some extent overshadowed by the Avenue Shopping Centre, remains the property of the congregation of Newton Mearns Paish Church.

This monument was erected by the United Presbyterian Congregation which was formed by the union of the Relief and Secession Churches in 1847. Further mergers were to follow and in 1900 the U.P. Church joined together with the Free Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland, which in turn merged with the Established Church to form the Church of Scotland in 1929.