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Relatives: Son of George Ballantine and Margaret Lambie Stone Condition: Sound Material: Sandstone Height: 1.46 Breadth: 0.8 Depth: 0.24 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

IN MEMORY OF

GEORGE BALLANTINE
LATE OF HOLM FARM
DIED 14TH DECEMBER, 1884,
AGED 80 YEARS.

ALSO HIS WIFE
MARGARET LAMBIE
DIED 20TH MARCH 1894,
AGED 86 YEARS.

MARGARET MUIRHEAD
WIFE OF JAMES BALLANTINE
BROADLEES
DIED 15TH NOVEMBER 1908 AGED 66 YEARS

ALSO THEIR SON ANDREW
DIED 11TH NOVEMBER 1911 AGED 34 YEARS

THE ABOVE
JAMES BALLANTINE
DIED 2ND FEBRUARY 1921 AGED 85 YEARS

Family History

George Ballantine was born in Netherton, East Kilbride on 25th July, 1804.His parents were Thomas Ballantine and Jean Park. At the age of twenty-six years he married a girl from the village of Eaglesham called Margaret Lambie. Taking tenancy of Holm Farm in the parish of Mearns at Capelrig, he and his successors were to remain there for six decades through two generations. Amongst the children born to this couple two of their sons, James and Thomas like their father, took up farming as an occupation. Thomas along with his sister Christina settled in nearby Craigend Farm, while James remained on the family farm at Holm. The memorial marking the grave of Thomas and his wife is to be found alongside this stone (Monument P13).

Son James married Margaret Muirhead at Eastwood in 1871 and his new bride joined the family at Holm. The farm, which had originally been sixty-seven acres in size, was added to over the years of James’s stewardship until by 1881 it was shown to extend to eighty-five acres a sure sign that it was a productive enterprise. Having to employ three farm servants to assist in its running further strengthens this image. Raising a family of eight children consisting of four girls and four boys must have been a daunting task for the couple but they seemed to survive as did their children.

It was surprising to find that despite having been born and raised at Holm Farm, James when in his mid fifties left the farm and moved to the opposite end of the parish to Broadlees Farm. The reason for this move is not known, but it may be assumed it was not through personal choice that such a move was made, with all the family connections and memories there were.
The family, still living with their parents, having moved to Broadlees Farm, soon settled into their new abode. Although the farm, situated to the south of Hazelden House, was ninety acres in size, only seventy were classed as arable. Son Andrew was engaged on the farm in the role of ploughman and gradually took over day to day control as his parents aged. His mother Margaret was to die at the farm in 1908 aged sixty-six years.

Andrew himself was to die at the young age of thirty-four years in 1911 while still living at Broadlees. He no longer farmed, having taken up the occupation of commercial traveller. Unfortunately Andrew was to suffer from one of the most common scourges of the time, namely tuberculosis, and after two years with this condition he succumbed to its ravages at home at Broadlees Farm. He was unmarried. James Ballantine, in common with the longevity of his parents, reached the advanced age of eighty-five years before arriving to rest beneath this headstone in 1925.