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Monument Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN GEALS ROBERTSON
DIED 21ST MARCH 1921 AGED 40 YEARS
ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW
AND THE OFFICERS AND CONSTABLES OF THE
RENFREWSHIRE CONSTABULARY
Family History
John Geals Robertson to whom this memorial is dedicated was the serving police officer for the township of Newton Mearns at the time of his death. Living with his wife Mary-Jane Adams in the Police House in Main Street, Mearns, he would have been on call twenty-four hours a day and an important member of the community.
Unfortunately he had reason to be admitted to the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow to be treated for a tumour on his spleen, and whilst being administered chloroform at the start of the procedure he died. Such deaths were not unknown during the early years of the use of anaesthesia.
Obviously this was a great shock for his family and colleagues in Renfrewshire Constabulary who erected this memorial in his honour.
John had been born into a police family as his father also named John had been a police constable before he retired. Both his parents John Robertson Snr. and his wife Christina Smith were still alive at the time of their son’s death.
It may be assumed that his wife left the area after this event as she would not have been able to retain residence in the police accommodation, and she is not shown as being buried with her husband.