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Monument Inscription
ERECTED
BY
JOHN & MARGARET GLASSFORD
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THEIR CHILDREN
JANET,
WHO DIED 8TH AUGT 1888, AGED 1 YEAR
JANET
WHO DIED 12TH JANY 1899, AGED 9 YEARS
THE ABOVE
JOHN GLASSFORD
WHO DIED 1ST AUGT 1931, AGED 79 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE
MARGARET GRAY,
WHO DIED 1ST OCT. 1934, AGED 81 YEARS
Family History
One of very few in the kirkyard made from red granite, elaborate in its decoration, this monument was erected initially to commemorate two little children by their loving parents who in passage of time were to join them in this plot.
Little if anything is known about the early lives of their parents John and Margaret Glassford nee Gray. No record can be found of their marriage or birth in Scotland, nor can such records pertaining to the death of their two infant children be discovered. This omission may be because they came from outside Scotland, and only their own demise has been registered.
John Glassford is a bit of an enigma insofar as his death certificate shows a person named Henry Templeton as being his reputed father, while his mother is listed as being Janet Miller or Glassford. It would appear that John Glassford was born out of wedlock and given his step-fathers name in due course. Henry Templeton is described as a farmer by occupation as is John Glassford.
When and where he married Margaret Gray his spouse is again not known but it appears likely that it was around 1875. The loss of two children within ten years of each other especially when the second child had been given the first child’s name, must have been a blow to the family although where this occurred and the cause of their deaths are not to be found in available records.
At the time of his death John Glassford was residing at Kirkhouse, at Mearnskirk. The cause of death was described as gallstone colic. His wife expired within three years of her husband’s death and was laid to rest alongside him.