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Stone Condition: Sound Material: Sandstone Length: 2.08 Breadth: 1.05 Depth: 0.22 Inscription Condition: Mostly decipherable Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. 41 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

G. S.
J.S.
1686
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ERECTED
To the
MEMORY
Of
Thomas Williamson
Who died 21st March 1826
And of
Janet Stevenson his wife
Who died 27th July 1832
By their affectionate son
John Williamson
Merchant in
GLASGOW

1833

Family History

This may have been a Stevenson family gravestone which John Williamson re-used. The editor of the pre-1855 recorded for the Scottish Genealogy Society in 1969 has written that the initials G.S. and J.S may be those of Gavin Steinsoune and his wife Jennet Syme in Mainhouse. These names together with those of their children Gavin, Robert and John Steinsoune are recorded in the Poll Tax record of 1695. It is possible therefore that John Williamson’s mother may have been a descendant of Gavin Steinsoune and Jennet Syme.

The date 1833 inscribed at the bottom of the inscription is given as 1873 in the pre-1855 recording.