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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Elizabeth
Rodger
04 September 1849
4
Robert
Rodger
05 April 1867
55
Crook
Elizabeth
Russell
29 September 1875
56

Relatives: Daughter of Robert Rodger and Elizabeth Russell. Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 2.07 Breadth: 1.07 Depth: 0.38 Inscription Condition: Mint Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: W. Buchan, Glasgow Pre 1855 no. NI ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

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Erected
To the memory of
ROBERT RODGER, of CROOK
WHO DIED 5TH APRIL, 1867, AGED 55.

ELIZABETH RUSSELL, HIS WIFE
DIED 29TH SEPT 1875, AGED 56.

ELIZABETH ,THEIR CHILD,
DIED 4TH SEPT 1849, AGED 4 YEARS.

Family History

Robert Rodger was born in the Mearns in 1812 shortly before the cessation of the Napoleonic Wars. He married a girl named Elizabeth Russell, also from the parish. Elizabeth was the daughter of William Russell and Elizabeth Herbertson. Her grandfather Andrew Herbertson was the farmer at Crook Farm when Robert Rodger and his wife took over the running of the farm.

Crook Farm, sometimes known as Crooks, was to be found on the old road from Mearns to Kilmarnock. Extending to ninety-seven acres in size, mostly arable land, and the site being on a high position, well drained, it favoured the growing of early potatoes. During winter snowfalls the farm would be cut off from contact with the remainder of the community for lengthy periods.

Five children blessed this family, three sons and two daughters. In common with many families of the time, the family were to lose their firstborn daughter Elizabeth at the tender age of four years. As a means of compensating emotionally from this event, a child born after such an event was given the name of its deceased sibling by the parents. This occurred in this family.

Robert Rodger, the father of the family, died aged fifty-five years having suffered from a disease of the lung for some time. His spouse Elizabeth died of typhus fever aged fifty-six years, having endured this condition for only eight days prior to her demise.

Son William was the person to continue the family connection with Crooks, taking over the running of the farm on the death of his father in 1867.