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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Mary Lindsay
Crombie
n/a
87
Arnold James
Henderson
n/a
37
Southfield House. Mearns
Morrice Pitcairn
Henderson
n/a
92

Relatives: Wife of Morrice Pitcairn Henderson. Stone Condition: Sound Material: Sandstone, Marble and other Height: 2 Breadth: 1.07 Depth: 0.3 Inscription Condition: Mint Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
ARNOLD JAMES HENDERSON
1876 – 1913
SHIPBUILDER, GLASGOW
OF SOUTHFIELD HOUSE, MEARNS
AND HIS ONLY SON

MORRICE PITCAIRN HENDERSON
1905 – 1997
MEMBER OF LLOYD’S OF LONDON
AND HIS BELOVED WIFE
MARY LINDSAY CROMBIE
1912 - 1999

Family History

Arnold James Henderson, son of engineer and ship builder John Henderson and Marjory Anderson, was born on 11th November 1876 at 4 Albion Crescent in Dowanhill, Glasgow. He married Mary Livingston Adam in Aberdeen on 3rd September 1903. Mary was the daughter of Thomas Adam (Jnr.), a ship builder, and Elizabeth McKinnon.

Arnold was able to trace his family’s connection with the sea back to his great grandfather John Henderson of Pittenweem (b.1791), who became a ship’s master, and Janet Shanks (b.1794) whom he married in September 1814. David and Janet Henderson had one daughter, Christian, and four sons David, Thomas, John and William.
These four sons, all master mariners, went on to build a shipping dynasty on the River Clyde. David commanded the troopship Clyde in the Crimean War and founded, with his brother William, the ship building and engineering firm of D. & W. Henderson & Co. of Finnieston. Thomas and John Henderson became the owners of the Anchor Shipping Line.

An elder in Mearns Parish Kirk, Arnold James Henderson died suddenly on 6th March 1913 at his home, Southfield House, having contracted pneumonia five days previously.

The Hendersons’ only son, Morrice Pitcairn Henderson, was born at Southfield House in 1905. A Lloyd’s insurance broker he married Mary Lindsay Crombie, daughter of John Crombie, an Aberdeen wool merchant, and Johanna Mitchell in September 1935. His paternal great-grandparents were David Henderson and Jane Pitcairn who married in June 1845 in Greenock.

The children of Arnold James Henderson’s second cousin, shipbuilder Wilfred Henderson, are commemorated in monument C09.