Monument Details Q03

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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Jean
Allason
n/a
n/a
Robert
Gilmour
n/a
n/a
Robert Jnr
Gilmour
n/a
n/a
Annie
Pollock
n/a
n/a

Relatives: Wife of Robert Gilmour. Mother of Robert Gilmour. Stone Condition: Sound Material: Sandstone Length: 2.18 Breadth: 0.93 Depth: 0.15 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

This is the Burial place
Of Robert Gilmour of Cairn
& Jean Allason his Spouse
Also Robert Gilmour their
Son & Annie pollock his
Spouse Now the property
Of Robert Gilmour their
Nephew & Jean Allason
His Spouse and their Children

1788

Family History

This stone dated 1788 covers the remains of various members of three of the oldest established families in the parish of Mearns. The families concerned are the Gilmours, Allasons and Polloks. All the aforesaid dynasties started with small farms and through hard work, judicious trading and large families, were able to expand into land ownership, and in two cases world-wide business interests.

The Gilmour males and their spouses were part of the earlier group and still involved deeply in farming. The area Cairn, where they were centred, was to be found out in the moors between the village of Newton and the fermtoun of Floak. An entry in the Poll Tax Record of 1695 mentions the settlement of ‘Cairne’ having only three person’s resident there liable for this tax.

The same record shows members of the Gilmour family being heritors for lands at Hillhead, Walton, Malletsheugh, Middleton and Broom. The Allasons are listed as heritors for lands at Flenders while the Polloks are heritors for Craigton and Flender. Heritors were a new class of small landowners sometimes known as ‘gentlemen farmers’ who purchased parcels of land from the great landowners of the area. They in turn often rented out this same land to small tenant farmers, and in some cases placed family members on them.

It should be noted that the grave adjoining this stone (Monument Q01) is dedicated to R.G & J.A., probably the nephew and his wife mentioned on this stone. There may not have been enough room left in the original lair to allow all persons mentioned to occupy the same lair, thus causing the opening of another in near proximity.