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Stone Condition: Sound Material: Marble Height: 1 Breadth: 0.52 Depth: 0.41 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Applique Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

IN MEMORY OF

MARGARET HOPE KIRKPATRICK MARSHALL
BORN 10th APRIL 1883, DIED 16th DECR 1884.

“AND JESUS CALLED A LITTLE CHILD UNTO HIM”
St Matt XVIII, 2

Family History

Against the ivy covered west wall of Mearns Kirkyard stands a monument to a life that was extinguished before it had hardly begun.

A Celtic cross stands above a plinth of granite on which are embedded the details of the small body that lies beneath it. Margaret Hope Kilpatrick Marshall, named after her maternal grandmother, came into this world on the 10th April, 1883 at 12 Bowmont Gardens, Kelvinside, in the parish of Partick. She was the child of John Charles Marshall and his wife Eleanor Susan Mackenzie. This couple had married at Dolphinton in Lanarkshire in 1876.

Baby Marshall’s father was a wine merchant to trade and although the extent of his business activities it is not known, he was obviously successful enough to allow him to purchase the house and policies of Crookfur in Mearns where the family remained for the remainder of their lives. The cause of the baby’s death is unclear as no trace of a death certificate has been found. It is recognised that in the period surrounding the date of her death the Mearns district was subject to an outbreak of scarlet fever which claimed many victims young and old. On the other hand taking into account her age, she may have succumbed to one of many of the infant ailments then prevalent.

No expense was spared by the grieving parents in the erection of this touching if proud monument to their infant daughter. When the time came for the parents of little Margaret to join her in the graveyard they chose to be buried alongside her under Monument. Z18.