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Relatives: Daughter of Alexander Thomson Stone Condition: Sound, Tilted Material: Sandstone Height: 1.25 Breadth: 0.78 Depth: 0.14 Inscription Condition: Mostly decipherable Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED
BY

ALEXANDER THOMSON
IN MEMORY OF HIS DAUGHTER,
ANNIE
WHO DIED 10TH DEC. 1878, AGED 3 YEARS

“ It is well with the Child”

Family History

Little Annie Thomson survived this life for only three years. She was the first-born child of Alexander Thomson and his wife Annie Lauder. The couple married on 26th June 1874 in Milngavie in the Parish of New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire where Annie’s father had been a tailor and clothier. The couple met whilst in service to the Hamilton family at Greenbank House in Mearns Parish where Alexander was employed as a private coachman, and Annie as a domestic servant.

Annie Thomson’s death was attributed to croup, a condition to which young children are especially vulnerable. The condition which often occurs in epidemics is characterized by a hoarse cough and laboured breathing resulting from inflammation and obstruction of the larynx.

Annie developed the condition ten days prior to her death at Greenbank Cottage on 12th December 1878.