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Relatives: Husband of Jessie Robertson Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 0.63 Breadth: 0.48 Depth: 0.14 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Applique Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

SACRED
TO
THE MEMORY OF

JOHN LAVELLE, J.P.
WHO DIED
26TH JAN. 1948, AGED 82 YEARS
HIS WIFE
JESSIE ROBERTSON
WHO DIED
24TH JAN. 1909, AGED 37 YEARS


R.I.P

Family History

John Lavelle, the person commemorated initially on this monument, was to marry his first wife Jessie Robertson, also listed on this stone, at Alexandria Roman Catholic Church on 15th July, 1898. John was a thirty-two year old printfield-hand whilst his bride was a twenty-four year old domestic servant. John, who resided in the village of Newton Mearns, was the child of Peter Lavelle, a gardener to trade, and Mary Brown. Jessie Robertson resided at 20 Burn St, Bonhill, Dunbartonshire with her parents Angus, a general labourer, and his wife Jessie McPhie.

The couple settled in the Mearns living initially at 2 Ashview Terrace. John eventually rose within his workplace to become a bleach works foreman. Tragically John lost his first wife Jessie Robertson at the early age of thirty-seven years in 1909. Jessie had been admitted to the Victoria Infirmary for an operation for peritonitis and it was discovered she had stomach cancer and died four days later. John Lavelle was later to remarry a person named Mary Morrison. It is possible that this monument was commissioned by this lady.

Although John was within the category often described as ‘a working man’, he would appear to have made his mark within the community at Mearns as he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, an honour given only to persons of good standing and worth to their community.

John Lavelle survived life until his eighty-second year, when he passed away while resident at Moorhill House, Newton Mearns.