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Relatives: Wife of James Osborne. Mother of Janet, Hugh, Walter, Alexander and James Jnr. and George. Stone Condition: Damaged Material: Sandstone Height: 2.67 Breadth: 0.92 Depth: 0.38 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: J. Wylie and Sons, Glasgow Pre 1855 no. 13 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
CHRISTINA COCHRANE
WIFE OF
JAMES OSBORNE FAULDS FARM
WHO DIED 30TH NOVR 1877 AGED 55 YEARS
ALSO THEIR CHILDREN
JANET
WHO DIED 2ND OCT R 1858 AGED 9 MONTHS
HUGH
WHO DIED 10TH NOV R 1860 AGED 8 MONTHS
WALTER
WHO DIED 17TH DEC R 1862 AGED 4 YEARS
AND ALEXANDER
WHO DIED 20TH FEB Y 1875 AGED 22 YEARS
JAMES OSBORNE (JUNIOR)
WHO DIED 3RD OCT R 1887 AGED 41 YEARS
GEORGE OSBORNE
WH[O] DIED 22ND JUNE 1898 AGED 34 YEARS
HIS SON GEORGE ALEXANDER OSBORNE
WHO DIED 4TH FEB Y 1897 AGED 2 YEARS 4 MOS
THE ABOVE JAMES OSBORNE
WHO DIED 13TH JAN Y 1903 AGED 84 YEARS

FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED [  ] BUT TO
OBTAIN SALVATION BY [   ] WHO
DIED FOR US[ THAT WE   ]
WE SHOULD LIVE TOGETHER WITH [ ]
[   ]

Family History

James Osborne, the patriarch of this family, was born in the Mearns in 1818, a year when epidemics of measles, whooping cough and typhus were sweeping the country. Despite these hazards, and perhaps as a result of living in a landward parish, young James survived to the ripe age of eighty-four years.

James married a Mearns girl by the name of Christina Cochrane on 28th May, 1843. About this date he also took occupancy of the farm known as North Faulds. This farm was in time to amalgamate with its near neighbour, South Faulds, becoming one unit known thereafter as Faulds Farm. The farm originally of one hundred and fifty acres extended to three hundred and sixty acres with the unification of the two farms. Situated as it was to the south-west of the village of Newton Mearns, its near neighbour being Pilmuir Farm and Quarry, only one hundred and fifty of these acres were classed as arable, the remainder being rough pasturage suitable only for sheep grazing.

Thirteen children were born to this couple, but as so commonly occurred in those times, infant mortality struck the family several times. Three of their children listed on this monument died as babies from causes varying from teething fever to croup. Unfortunately even surviving childhood did not avoid an early death for some others in the family as can be again seen enumerated on this gravestone.

Having been widowed in 1877, James continued to keep the family together despite all the aforementioned losses which by 1897 included one of his grandchildren, another infant death statistic. James died in 1903. None of his sons followed him into farming but took up occupations as diverse as mechanic, bank teller and drapery warehouseman.