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Relatives: Daughter of Robert & Margaret Craig Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 2.06 Breadth: 1.07 Depth: 0.44 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: W. Scott, Cathcart Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED
BY
ROBERT & MARGARET CRAIG
IN
AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
OF THEIR CHILDREN
ROBERT
WHO DIED 6TH JANY 1870
AGED 6 MONTHS
AGNES
DIED 28TH OCTR 1892
AGED 15 YEARS & 9 MONTHS
THE ABOVE
ROBERT CRAIG
DIED AT POLLOK HOUSE
17TH APRIL 1908 AGED 79 YEARS
ALSO HIS WIFE
MARGARET RESIDE
DIED 3RD NOVR 1915 AGED 74 YEARS


R & M CRAIG, ROBSHILL

Family History

This memorial, originally created as a mark of respect for the deaths of two of their children by grieving parents Robert and Margaret Craig, was through passage of time to mark their own resting place.

The Craig family enumerated on this stone were born into well known farming families in the district around Mearns. Robert Craig Snr. was the son of Robert Craig from Fenwick and his wife Agnes Muir from Eaglesham. His father had farmed at Kirkhill and Burnhouse Farms, both in the Mearns, over many years.

Robert married Margaret Reside, a farmer’s daughter, from Brownside Farm, Mearns, on 20th August, 1868. The couple took up residency at Robshill Farm situated in the northern extremity of the then village of Newton. The farm, eighty acres in extent, was over the coming years to be absorbed into the village.

The couple lost two of their children before adulthood. Son and namesake Robert, died at the tender age of six months, having suffered convulsions for three months of his short life. A viral infection of his brain was deemed the likely cause of this condition. Daughter Agnes lived only until short of her sixteenth birthday when she also joined her younger sibling in the family grave. She, it would appear, had a disease of the hip joint which caused her to suffer from suppurative exhaustion.

Eventually the farm closed down and the family were to be found residing in Pollok House in Kilmarnock Road on the then outskirts of the village of Newton. It was there that both Robert and his wife died, having each entered their eighth decade.