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Monument Inscription
ERECTED
BY
ANDREW MUIRHEAD.
IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE,
AGNES SCOTT,
WHO DIED 1845.
HIS WIFE AGNES ALLAN
Family History
Little is known as to the life of the persons named on this monument. Andrew Muirhead the person on whose behalf the stone was created does not appear to have been a native of the Mearns. Investigations have revealed that he came from the adjoining parish of Eaglesham where he was born on 11th July 1801. His parents were Robert Muirhead and Isobel Wilson.
Disturbingly Andrew appears not only to have commemorated his first deceased wife on this memorial but has already appended the name of his second wife before her death. Obviously this man preferred to be well prepared in advance for the certainty that such an inscription would be necessary some time in the future. What his wife thought of his preparations is lost in the mists of time.
Andrew was to marry his first wife Agnes Scott on 22nd November 1835 in East Kilbride parish. After only ten years of marriage she died and was buried in Mearns Kirkyard.
It appears likely that Andrew and family had by this time moved home to live in the Mearns Parish as it was there that he was to take his second spouse. This marriage to Agnes Allen took place in Mearns on 19th June, 1849. Tenuous information indicates that this wife remained alive until 1871, perhaps outliving her spouse so that no date of death was appended to the memorial inscription alongside her name.