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Monument Inscription
IN MEMORY OF
JAMES POLLOCK
WHO DIED 1ST FEBRUARY 1869,
AGED 60 YEARS
ALSO HIS WIFE
MARY HUTCHESON
WHO DIED 26TH MAY 1896
AGED 84 YEARS
AND THEIR SON
ROBERT POLLOCK
DIED 12TH JANUARY 1905
AGED 54 YEARS
JANET ALLISON MATHER
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
ROBERT POLLOCK
DIED 14TH DECEMBER 1929
AGED 83 YEARS
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
WHICH DIE IN THE LORD
Family History
This very handsome monument standing beside the west boundary wall of the kirkyard commemorates two generations of shoemakers.
The first named James Pollock was born in the village of Newton in the parish of Mearns on 14th October, 1809. The Napoleonic Wars were still taking place and life for many was affected by this event. James was born to William Pollock and his spouse Agnes Campbell. He trained as a shoemaker, a craft well represented in all the hamlets and fermtouns that dotted the landscape in those times.
On 8th August, 1834 James married Mary Hutcheson and together over the next few years, this couple provided the community with seven new members. Their family consisted of Agnes (b.1836), William (b.1838), Mary (b.1840), Elizabeth (B.1842), Jean (b.1844), Robert (b.1850) and Margaret (b.1854). Both the sons, William and Robert, although twelve years apart in age, were born on the same date namely 14th November, on the appropriate years.
James, the father, died of pneumonia aged sixty years in 1869, but it was not for another twenty-seven years that he was reunited with his spouse Mary when she died aged eighty-four years in 1896.
Son Robert through time had followed his father into the trade of shoemaking and had prospered sufficiently to be able to employ others. This gave him the right to call himself a Master Shoemaker. He was to take a local girl called Janet Allison Mather as his bride in a ceremony carried out under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Church in Newton Mearns. The event took place on 22nd March, 1877 and the officiating minister was the Rev. David Cameron.
Janet Mather had been the child of James Mather, a Master Baker to trade, deceased at the time of the wedding, and his wife Mary Renfrew. Janet had trained as a dressmaker and was thirty years of age when she married, her groom being four years younger.
Once again, as so often the case, the male partner pre-deceased his spouse, in this case by some fifteen years before they were laid to rest along with Robert’s parents under this monument, in the shade of the trees overhanging the western boundary of the kirkyard.
Robert’s sister Elizabeth is buried at Monument V06.