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Monument Inscription
ANN HEARTY
BYRNE
1898 – 1927 AGED 29 YEARS
CLOSE BYE
Family History
This small monument consists simply of a marble square set upon a horizontal slab of local stone. It commemorates Ann Hearty Byrne, the daughter of Edward Hearty and Mary Ann Ellwood. Her father was a coal miner who is thought to have come originally from Ireland and to have settled in Lesmahagow where Ann was born. Her mother’s origins have not been discovered: the surname Ellwood is extremely common in the north of England.
Ann (known as Annie) married Herbert Byrne in 1924 and set up house at 115 Main Street, Newton Mearns. Herbert, who worked as a postman, seems to have come from the Falmouth district in the south of England but how he came to be living in Newton Mearns is not known.
In the early hours of 9th June 1927, just three years after her marriage, Annie died from pulmonary tuberculosis which was so prevalent and for which there was then no medical cure.
Leaving behind her husband and parents, Annie lies alone beneath this simple memorial, the only reminder of a short and unfulfilled life.
Prior to the days of motor transport the village postmen walked or cycled up to twenty miles a day, delivering the mail and the local news. Newspapers were a relative luxury for many in the days of financial stringency, and not uncommonly a weekly newspaper would be bought rather than a daily paper.