Details of the monument you have selected are shown below. Click on the image(s) of the monument (at the bottom of the page) to view a larger version (opens in new window). Please allow a few moments for the larger version to load; although every effort has been made to ensure the large images download quickly, internet speeds may vary depending on connection speeds. Click here to go back to your search results.
Monument Inscription
ERECTED BY
JEAN LEGGAT.
IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
JOHN CARSLAW
OF HUMBY WHO DIED 13TH SEPT.
1854, AGED 81 YEARS.
THE ABOVE SPOUSE
JANE LEGGAT
DIED 13TH AUGUST 1876.
AGED 69 YEARS.
DAVID CARSLAW
WHO DIED 30TH JUNE. 1854
AGED 10 YEARS.
ALSO
WILLIAM CARSLAW
WHO DIED 27TH APRIL 1862.
AGED 23 YEARS
ALSO
MARY, THEIR DAUGHTER
WHO DIED 27TH MARCH 1881.
AGED 47 YEARS
ALSO
ANNIE, THEIR GRANDDAUGHTER
WHO DIED 14TH FEBRUARY 1880,
AGED 19 YEARS
Family History
John Carslaw farmer at Humbie in the Parish of Mearns was sixty years of age before he married Jean Leggat. Jean came from Neilston and was twenty-seven years her spouse’s junior. Despite his advanced years John was to sire a family of eight children between 1834 and 1851, by which time he was seventy-eight years of age.
The farm of Humbie, situated on the road between Mearns and Eaglesham, consisting of the traditional steading and farm buildings surrounded by thirty-six acres of arable land with the Earn Water running through its policies, supported this family for many years.
Unfortunately because of John Carslaw’s advanced age not many of his children were to enjoy his company into adulthood. John died aged eighty-one years on 13th September, 1854 when his youngest son Leggat was only three years of age.
As often found in farming families the death of the farmer did not always mean that his family vacated the farm. This was the case at Humbie where the mother of this extensive brood took upon herself the onerous task of not only raising her large family but also running the farm. This dual role was to be hers, aided latterly by two of her sons James and Leggat, until her own death in 1876. No doubt a strong and formidable woman, her resolve was further tested when her ten year old son David was to die only three months before her husband.
A few years later her son William was to succumb to the scourge of tuberculosis aged only twenty-three years. Daughter Mary is interred in the family grave as is son John’s daughter Annie.