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Monument Inscription
IN MEMORY OF
JAMES ALISON
WESTFIELD,
BORN 17TH AUGT 1798,
DIED AT GLASGOW, 25TH JANY 1879
ALSO OF
JANET CRAIG
HIS WIFE
BORN 25TH JANY 1809,
DIED AT GLASGOW, 3RD FEBY 1888
Family History
The farm at Westfield to the south-west of Hazleden in Mearns was the home of the Alison family between the 1830’s and 1850’s. The farm covered seventy acres of arable though hilly land, from which sufficient income could be generated to support this family.
James Alison the farmer came from farming stock, following his father, also named James, into this occupation. James married a woman from Stewarton named Janet Craig on 7th June, 1828 at Mearns. Three sons came from this marriage, James, John and Arthur.
At some time during the 1850’s the family left the farm, the parish and the country air and changed it for the polluted atmosphere of the metropolis of Glasgow. Taking residence in a tenement flat at 62 Hill Street in the Garnethill district would have been an extreme change of environment for both James and his wife Janet. Despite this lifestyle change both parties lived to great ages with James dying at eighty years and his spouse at seventy-nine years.
It was to Mearns Kirkyard that this couple were brought to lie below the soil in the parish where their association began. James’s death was reported by his son John who at the time of his father’s death was residing in Edinburgh.