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Relatives: Wife of John Dowe Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 2 Breadth: 0.82 Depth: 0.38 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: R. Gray, Glasgow Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED BY JANE BROWN
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
JOHN DOWE
WHO DIED AT WILLOWBANK
18TH SEPT. 1904, AGED 68
THE ABOVE
JANE BROWN OR ANDERSON
DIED 6TH OCTOBER 1946, AGED 84 YEARS


I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE

Family History

A very imposing granite stone stands testament to the affection felt between the donor Jane Brown and her first spouse John Dowe.

Jane Brown, daughter of James Brown, a mason to trade, and his wife Janet Dunbar, was born and raised in the then western extremities of the city of Glasgow in 1862. Her parents lived in tenement property at 9 Arlington Street in the Kelvin District of that city. Jane, like so many girls of her social class, went into domestic service probably when about thirteen or fourteen years of age, usually in a house belonging to a merchant or tradesperson.

How or where she met her husband is uncertain, but at age twenty years she was to marry a man twenty-two years her senior in the person of John Dowe. John, a forty-two years old widower, was employed as an ironfoundry warehouseman and resided at 113 West Graham St in the district of Cranstonhill, Glasgow.

The couple were married on 31st December, 1879 by Robert Blair, Minister of St Columba’s Church of Scotland, at the church manse at 97 Hill St, Glasgow. In due course of time John and his young bride set up home at Willowbank in Newton Mearns. John was to pass away at this address aged sixty-eight years in 1914.

Jane, being so much younger that her husband, remarried within seven years of his death. On this occasion she chose a commissionaire by the name of James Anderson who lived in Glasgow at 70 Kerr St. The marriage took place under the auspices of the United Free Church at Newton Mearns. Jane’s new husband was, as her first one, a widower some five years younger than her.

The couple remained at Willowbank until Jane died in 1946 aged eighty-four years and was placed alongside her first husband under this grand monument.