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Monument Inscription
IN
MEMORY OF
JOHN CHARLES ROBSON MARSHALL
OF CROOKFUR
BORN 20th JUNE 1848, DIED 3rd AUGUST 1910
AND OF HIS WIFE
ELEANORA SUSAN MACKENZIE
BORN 8th NOV. 1852, DIED 18th DEC. 1925
THE LORD SHALL GIVE THEE REST FROM THY SORROW
Isaiah XIV 3.
“AS DYING, AND, BEHOLD WE LIVE”
2 Cor, VI.9
“KEPT BY A FATHER’S HAND,
LOVE CANNOT DIE”
Family History
This simple and unprepossessing monument belies the social status of the persons it stands above. Constructed of granite in the shape of an unadorned Christian cross standing on several reducing plinths it stands alongside the western boundary wall of the Kirkyard.
The memorial is dedicated to two persons who, although not originally from the district of Mearns, had made it their home for many years.
John Charles Robson Marshall was the child of John Marshall, a landed proprietor, and his wife Sarah Robson. This couple originated in Kelso in the Border region. John .C.R. Marshall involved himself in business and, although classed as a merchant, he was heavily involved in the wine trade. Obviously successful in business and apparently prosperous, he was able to take as his bride a young woman from the minor nobility /rural gentry by the name of Eleanora Susan Mackenzie.
Eleanora Mackenzie was the daughter of John Ord Mackenzie, a Writer to the Signet, and his wife Margaret Hope Kirkpatrick. This couple lived and raised their family in Dolphinton House in the North Lanarkshire village of the same name. John Ord Mackenzie came from a long lineage of persons involved in various capacities in the legal profession. His wife Margaret Kirkpatrick’s father was Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, another Lanarkshire village.
John and Eleanora were married in the Episcopalian Church in Dolphinton on 2nd August 1876, where no doubt the celebrations of this event at the “Big House” would have created a major event in the local scene.
Moving to Glasgow, the couple took up residence at 12 Bowmont Gardens in Kelvinside where they remained for some years. No doubt the business interests of John Marshall thrived to the extent that he was able to move his family out of the smoky environs of the city to the more pleasant rural surroundings of Mearns. Taking up residence at Crookfur House situated to the north of the village of Newton, the family would have enjoyed an idyllic setting in which to thrive. All was not well however as the couple lost their young daughter Margaret at the tender age of eighteen months in 1884.
In due course both John Marshall and his spouse Eleanora Mackenzie, were to be laid to rest alongside Monument Z19, the burying place of their little daughter. It appears that the family had a very strong Christian belief as is borne out by the number of biblical quotes adorning their monument.