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Monument Inscription
IN MEMORY OF
JAMES DOUGLAS STODART.
WHO DIED 18th AUGUST 1875,
IN THE 28th YEAR OF HIS AGE
WILLIAM DAVID STODART,
WHO DIED 24th MARCH 1877.
IN THE 17th YEAR OF HIS AGE
MARION DOUGLAS
WIFE OF GEORGE STODART,
WHO DIED 14th NOVR 1881
MARION STODART,
WHO DIED 11th AUGT 1894
GEORGE STODART,
WHO DIED 8th DECR 1896
Family History
The Stodart family commemorated on this monument were not natives of Mearns but originally came from the City of Glasgow. George, the patriarch of this clan, was a wine merchant by occupation and to all appearances a successful one at that. Raising his children within the confines of the city did not appear to satisfy George and his wife’s needs and ambitions for their family so they purchased the house of Netherton in Mearns and it was there they remained.
George had married Marion Douglas on 18th June in 1843 in the Parish of Gorbals. That district in those times still housed many of the elite of Glasgow, both in the social scene and the business world. With the onset of the railways and the inward migration of increasing numbers of people from the Highlands and Ireland into the city, things were rapidly changing in the Gorbals. Builders abandoned their earlier aspirations of creating homes for the wealthy into speedily raising tenements in an effort to house this mass influx of people. It became apparent to many residents that the area was changing, and many left for pastures new such as the Mearns.
The couple brought with them a family consisting of at least seven children, five sons and two daughters. Three of these children are commemorated on this stone along with their parents.
James Douglas Stodart had worked in his father’s business as a wine merchant and was still unmarried at the age of twenty-eight years when he contracted scarlatina. Despite his age and maturity this disease took his life after only eleven days. His death was reported by his brother Hugh Thomas Stodart.
Next to depart this life aged only seventeen years, was William David Stodart. This lad, who suffered from anaemia, was still a schoolboy when he died in March, 1877. His death was reported by his brother George John Stodart.
His sister Marion, next listed, died at the age of forty-one years in 1894. Marion was a single lady who had taken on the role of her mother after that person’s death in 1881 and remained in the family home at Netherton. She unfortunately succumbed to a cerebral disease. Her death was reported by her brother Archibald Stodart.
Mother to this family Marion Douglas had passed away in 1881 leaving her by then adult family to support her husband in his widowhood. Her spouse George Stodart was seventy-one years of age when he died in 1896.