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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Elizabeth
Maver
21 November 1956
69
William
Maver
05 May 1928
70
Elizabeth
Watt
18 January 1939
80

Relatives: Daughter of William and Elizabeth Watt Stone Condition: Sound Material: Granite Height: 1.8 Breadth: 0.9 Depth: 0.41 Inscription Condition: Mint Inscription Technique: Applique Mason: J. Kirkland, Motherwell Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED BY
ELIZABETH WATT
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
HER HUSBAND
WILLIAM MAVER
WHO DIED 5th MAY 1928
AGED 70 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
ELIZABETH WATT
WHO DIED 18th JAN. 1939
AGED 80 YEARS
ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER
ELIZABETH
DIED 21st NOV 1956
AGED 69 YEARS

Family History

William Maver, the son of a silk dyer, was born in Edinburgh in 1858. His father died when he was about ten years old, leaving his widow with three boys to bring up. When he was about eighteen William was indentured to a slater in Glasgow, where he was later to meet his future wife, Elizabeth Watt from Dalry.

The couple married in 1882 and settled in Mearns after the birth of their second child, Elizabeth, in 1887. At first the family lived in Main Street near the Gospel Hall, moving later to the Kilmarnock (now Ayr Road), where William built Lilybank Cottage as the family home.

William founded the firm of William Maver & Son, Builders and Contractors in Newton Mearns. The firm, which traded until the 1960s, was responsible for building the bungalows in Arthurlie Drive, Gilmourton Crescent and Raeside Avenue in the 1930s.

Elizabeth, William and Elizabeth Maver’s second child, was a highly respected and loved teacher. Known by her pupils as Miss Bessie Maver, she taught in the little school at Loganswell, transferring in 1928 with the five remaining pupils there to Mearns School where she taught until her retirement in 1948.

The school building at Loganswell was originally a toll house on the ‘New Line’ (the Glasgow to Kilmarnock Road) which was completed in 1832.

Mary Ferguson Maver’s name was added to the family memorial in late 2007. The oldest child of William and Elizabeth Maver, Mary outlived her two sisters and five brothers.

The inscription reads:

AND THEIR DAUGHTER
MARY
DIED 10TH MAY 1973
AGED 89 YEARS.