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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Jane
Mitchell
17 January 1914
91
Margaret
Reside
n/a
n/a
James
Reside
18 February 1895
82
Floak
Jane
Reside
n/a
n/a
John
Reside
n/a
n/a
John ( 2 )
Reside
05 September 1915
60
Robert
Reside
30 July 1891
30
Jane Mitchell
Reside
28 March 1920
67

Relatives: Wife of James Reside. Mother of Jane, John, Margaret, John ( 2 ) and Jane MiItchell Reside. Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 2.27 Breadth: 1.01 Depth: 0.44 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Scott and Rae, Glasgow Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
JAMES RESIDE
WHO DIED AT FLOAK 18TH FEBY 1895
IN HIS 83RD YEAR
AND HIS FAMILY
ROBERT
DIED 30TH JULY 1891 AGED 30 YEARS
JANE JOHN & MARGARET
WHO ALL DIED IN INFANCY.
HIS WIFE
JANE MITCHELL
DIED 17TH JANY 1914, AGED 91 YEARS
JOHN RESIDE
DIED 5TH SEPT 1915 AGED 60 YEARS
JANE MITCHELL RESIDE
DIED 28TH MARCH 1920, AGED 67 YEARS

Family History

The family remembered on this memorial should not be mistaken for another Mearns family called Raeside. There was no connection between these two distinct groups.

The Resides were a long established farming family within the district, and several members of the clan farmed in various parts of the parish over several generations.

James Reside, the first named on this memorial, was born to James Reside and Agnes Ferguson in the hamlet of Uplawmoor near Neilston on 11th January, 1812. Eventually James Jnr. took himself a wife, a Mearns girl by the name of Jane Mitchell. The marriage took place in the Mearns on 19th June, 1846, the same year that a serious typhus epidemic swept through nearby Glasgow.

Within a period of twenty years after their marriage this couple produced a total of ten children, several of whom were to die at a young age. The family consisted of James (b.1849), Jane Mitchell (b.1852), John (b.1854), Marion, (b.1859), Robert (b.1860), Margaret Picken (b.1862), William (b.1864) and Andrew (b.1869). A daughter named Jane appears to have perished as a child and been replaced by another daughter given her name, as did a son named John.

By 1881 the family were settled in the farm of South Floak on the south-western boundary of the parish. This farm although some two hundred acres in extent, was not easy land to work as it verged on rough moorland, and required a lot of work to install drainage and remove stone whereby some of the land could produce limited crops such as oats and potatoes. Despite the undoubted hard life the family had to endure, they remained at Floak until well into the 20th Century.

During their residence at South Floak or Floakside as it latterly became known, several of the children of the family died. Mentioned on the monument were Jane, John and Margaret as well as son Robert who succumbed to pleurisy and peritonitis at the age of only thirty years.

Both parents lived to very advanced ages, father James living to his eighty-third year, while his wife Jane Mitchell lived another twenty-three years before expiring aged ninety-one years.

On the death of his father, son John took over the running of the farm along with his sister Jane and brother Andrew, none of whom had married. Their aged mother stayed with these remaining children at the farm until her death in 1914.