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Relatives: Son of William and Margaret McLean. Stone Condition: Sound, Tilted Material: Sandstone Height: 1.65 Breadth: 0.83 Depth: 0.36 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: W. Scott, Cathcart Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

Erected by

WILLIAM MCLEAN,
IN MEMORY OF
HIS BROTHERS AND SISTER,

THOMAS, BORN 1857, DIED 1861.
ROBERT, BORN 1863, DIED IN INFANCY.
ANNIE, BORN 1865, DIED 1875.
JOHN, BORN 1854, DIED 1881.

ALSO HIS FATHER
WILLIAM MCLEAN,
BORN 1830 DIED 1898

AND HIS MOTHER
MARGARET PATON
BORN 1829, DIED 1904

Family History

One of many of the children of William McLean and Margaret Paton from the village of Newton was responsible for the erection of this memorial. William McLean Snr. was a joiner to trade and operated a business in the district employing others. He had found his future wife Margaret Paton in the village of Eaglesham and it was in that village on Christmas Day, 1853 that they were married.

Eldest son William took it upon himself to raise a memorial to his parents and upon which the siblings who pre-deceased him are also listed.

Unfortunately, as was not uncommon in the times pertinent to the events displayed on this memorial, child mortality was common and widespread. Some families were affected more often than others. Such was the case in this instance where the McLean family lost three of their offspring before reaching adulthood.

Son Thomas was first to perish aged four years of age in 1861 having suffered from croup for a short time. Within two years of burying infant Thomas another son named Robert was born. Tragedy followed hard on the heels of this happy event when baby Robert failed to survive and joined his older brother in this grave.

Despite these losses the couple produced another child within a year of Robert’s death in the form of daughter Annie. Although Annie survived the early years of childhood she was to die at the tender age of ten years in 1875. She had apparently contracted some form of gastric upset which resulted in severe diarrhoea which after five days sapped the strength from this young body.

Brother John who died in 1881 was also remembered by his brother before the parents of the afore listed appear on the memorial.