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Relatives: Father of Janet and John Stone Condition: Damaged, Tilted Material: Sandstone Height: 1.1 Breadth: 0.74 Depth: 0.17 Inscription Condition: Mostly decipherable Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. 31 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

PETER ANDERSON
CUMMOCK HOUSE


ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF
HIS MOTHER
JEAN DUNLOP,
WHO DIED 8TH DECR 1846.
AND HIS FATHER
JOHN ANDERSON
WHO DIED 16TH FEBR 1859
JAMES ANDERSON,
FARMER LOFTS,
DIED 10TH MAY 1871.
HIS DAUGHTER
JANET,
DIED 23RD DECR 1885
HIS SON
JOHN,
DIED 4TH SEPT. 1897

Family History

This memorial was erected by the occupant of the adjoining grave (Monument P04) Peter Anderson. Peter’s parents John Anderson and Jean Dunlop were the residents and tenants of Cumnock House Farm. John, the son of a farm labourer, was born in the Mearns in 1770, while his wife Jean Dunlop was born in Fenwick in 1773. John was to live to the advanced age of ninety years surviving his wife by thirteen years.

The greater part of this couple’s married life was spent at Cumnock House Farm and it was there that they raised their children. Cumnock House, sometimes referred to as Cummock House is shown spelt as such on this tombstone. Cumnock House Farm is described on the notes shown on Monument P04.

Amongst the family raised by this couple was a son named James born in 1803 at Mearns. James was to take tenancy at Lofts Farm where, until he married in 1852, he farmed his fifty acre holding as a bachelor. Aided by only one labourer and two servants, it was not until he was forty-eight years of age that he took himself a wife.

His wife Agnes Clark was the daughter of the farmer at Nether Malletsheugh Farm, William Clark and his wife Agnes Pollok. Young Agnes was a mere nineteen years of age when she married James Anderson. The couple went on to raise five children, four daughters and one son. Two of their issue, son John and daughter Janet, were to die at thirty-five and twenty-five years of age respectively and are buried alongside their father and grandparents. Janet died of tuberculosis, whilst no cause of death could be established for John as he had no record of medical problems.

After James died in 1871 his wife Agnes continued to farm at Lofts for another thirty years with the help of her son John and two general labourers, until John’s untimely death in 1897, when the farm transferred into the stewardship of John Barr.