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Relatives: Father of Daniel Caldow Stone Condition: Damaged Material: Sandstone Height: 0.62 Breadth: 0.46 Depth: 0.17 Inscription Condition: Mostly decipherable Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

DANIEL CALDOW
IN MEMORY
OF HIS FATHER
ADAM CALDOW WHO DIE
D 18 MARCH 1876 AGED [52]
YEARS

Family History

Daniel Caldow, the person responsible for the erection of this stone, was not a native of Mearns, being born to Adam Caldow and Mary Bell in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, in 1857.

The stone, whilst showing a degree of sophistication in its design, displays a remarkably poor quality of workmanship by the person adding the inscription. The stone is missing an embellishment from its top surface which has been lost through time. Dedicated to Adam Caldow, father of the above sponsor, only he is shown as being interred here.

Adam Caldow, also a native of Kilwinning, had married his spouse Mary Bell in Eastwood Parish on 6th December, 1851. The couple set up home in the hamlet of Gateside in Mearns after 1857. Gateside was a short row of houses north of the Mearns Kirk on the Mearns Road. This group of dwellings attracted the local name of Thumba’ Ha’ (Thimble Hall), a name caused allegedly by the concentration of tailors who resided there.

Adam was a quarryman to trade and would have worked at one of the nearby quarries such as Kirkhouse or Pilmuir. It may have been as a result of the harsh conditions such persons had to work in, that while only fifty-two years of age Adam died of a lung condition which ended with pneumonia on 18th March, 1876.