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Relatives: Husband of Margaret Ritchie. Father of Robert Allison Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 2.07 Breadth: 1.04 Depth: 0.66 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: W.Buchanan, s.s Glasgow Pre 1855 no. 49 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED
BY
ROBERT ALLISON, MALLETSHEUGH
IN MEMORY OF HIS PARENTS.
JAMES ALLISON
WHO DIED 9TH JANY 1865, AGED 83 YEARS.
MARGARET RITCHIE,
WHO DIED 31ST OCTR 1858, AGED 66 YEARS.
AND JAMES, HIS BROTHER,
WHO DIED 9TH MAY 1853, AGED 31 YEARS.
ALSO HIS FAMILY
JANET
BORN 31ST JAN 1865, DIED 29TH JULY, 1874
ROBERT, WILLIAM,MARY & WILLIAM
WHO DIED IN INFANCY.
MARY,
DIED 7TH JULY 1884, AGED 10 YEARS & 11 MONTHS.
ALSO THEIR FATHER
ROBERT ALLISON
WHO DIED 17TH APRIL 1888, aged 76.
ALSO HIS DAUGHTER
MARGARET RITCHIE ALLISON
WHO DIED 18TH JULY 1890 AGED 21 YEARS
ALSO HIS SON ROBERT
WHO DIED 22ND NOVEMBER 1903 AGED 36 YEARS
ALSO HIS WIFE
MARY ANN HOPKINS
DIED 27H JANUARY 1912 AGED 80 YEARS.

Family History

This fine granite monument was erected by Robert Allison in memory of his parents, James Allison and Margaret Ritchie who had eight children - Robert, Jean, Agnes, Margaret, James, William, Janet and Elizabeth. All of these lived to adulthood and two of them, William and Janet lived to the age of ninety-one. Janet survived until 1917.

James and Margaret’s second son James is also commemorated here. Robert’s own name and that of his wife and their children were later recorded on the memorial.

Robert married Mary Ann Hopkins from Monkton in Ayrshire in 1862. The marriage for some reason took place not in either of the parties’ home parishes but in Hutchesontown in Glasgow. Mary Ann who died in 1912 was to outlive all her children. Four died in infancy and two died before reaching the age of eleven years. Only two survived till adulthood; Margaret Ritchie Allison died at the age of twenty-one and a ‘replacement’ Robert at thirty-six years.

When James Allison died in 1865, he left substantial property. The farm at Malletsheugh and other property was left to his eldest son. The second son surviving at the time of his father’s death (William) inherited Malletsheugh Inn and several neighbouring houses. There is no valuation from this date of the ‘other property’ in Mearns which went with the farm. However, on Robert’s death in 1888 this property provided a rental of £134 per annum.

The farm at Malletsheugh occupied by the Allison family for over one hundred years carried the title of Mid Malletsheugh. At one period there were three farms all carrying the name Malletsheugh as well as the hamlet of Malletsheugh.