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Monument Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
HUGH McCOLL
WATERFOOT
WHO DIED 30TH APRIL 1909
AGED 72
HIS DAUGHTER JULIE
DIED 29TH MAY 1901
AGED 35
ALSO HIS SON ANDREW
DIED 1ST MAY 1907
AGED 37
ALSO HIS SON
MATTHEW McCOLL
DIED 6TH APRIL 1921
AGED 42
ALSO HIS WIFE
JANET STEEL
DIED 21ST NOVEMBER 1925
AGED 87
AND HIS DAUGHTER
MARY
DIED 24TH DECEMBER 1958
AGED 84
AND HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER
JESSIE STEELE S.R.N.
DIED 9TH FEBRUARY 1982 AGED 91
ERECTED BY HIS WIFE
GOD IS LOVE
Family History
Hugh McColl was born in 1836 in the Loudoun District of Ayrshire. His parents, Hugh and Julia McColl, were originally crofters from Appin in Argyllshire, but were living in Avondale Parish, Lanarkshire when they married in 1829.
Following his apprenticeship with Struthers, the Joiners and Coachbuilders at Jackton, near East Kilbride, Hugh married Janet Steel, a farmer’s daughter, in May 1861. By 1868, Hugh, his wife and their family of three children, Elizabeth, Angus and Julia, had settled in Waterfoot where he set up a joiner’s business which, although no longer in family control, is still trading in 2008. The premises of his joiner’s shop were located at the cross roads at Waterfoot Row and are still in existence. The family originally lived adjacent to the premises. Diagonally opposite on the northwest aspect of the cross roads were the blacksmith’s premises (the smiddy) and the family house. Another six children, Janet, Andrew, Hugh, Mary, John and Matthew were born at Waterfoot between 1867 and 1879.
Janet McColl sold groceries and sweets from her house-shop, a common form of trading at the time.
Julia McColl worked as a cook in Kirkhill House, Newton Mearns, but later started a Dairy and Home Bakery in Rottenrow, Glasgow. She married a Glaswegian called John Steel (no relation) and died following the birth of her third daughter. As was not uncommon in those days of high maternal mortality, the families rallied round: John Steel took his eldest daughter to live with his mother, and the two younger ones came to live with the McColl family at Waterfoot.
Andrew McColl joined the Army and served in the Boer War. He contracted tuberculosis and died after a prolonged illness. His brother, Matthew, died in Canada.
Mary McColl took a great interest in the upbringing of her nieces, Jessie and Alison Steel, whose mother had died in childbirth. Mary had a reputation as a fine dress-maker and also took an interest in the house-shop initiated by her mother, supplying lemonade and ice cream for the walkers and cyclists who delighted in the countryside in their leisure time.
Jessie Steele, the daughter of Janet McColl (b.1867) and John Steele, trained as a nurse at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow and latterly was assistant matron at Philipshill Hospital, near East Kilbride.