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Monument Inscription
REVD WILLIAM CARSWELL
IN MEMORY OF
MARY CUTHBERTSON,
WIFE OF REVD WM CARSWELL, EAGLESHAM,
DIED 8th MAY 1848, AGED 48 YEARS.
MARGARET BROWN,
RELICT OF THOMAS CUTHBERTSON, OF LYONCROSS,
DIED 26th OCTOBER 1852, AGED 79 YEARS.
WILLIAM CARSWELL,
MINISTER OF THE
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH EAGLESHAM,
DIED 24th JANUARY 1877, AGED 77 YEARS.
ANNIE CARSWELL,
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
ROBERT CARSWELL, DUNGARNOCK
DIED 7th JUNE 1939, AGED 78 YEARS
Family History
This imposing monument to members of the Carswell family consists of a large centre piece and one smaller section at each side, monuments Z28 and Z30. Z30 bears no inscription.
The Rev.William Carswell of Eaglesham was born in Duncarnock on the west of Mearns Parish about 1800. Warmly welcomed by the congregation with a call by some one hundred and fifty six members and eighty three adherents of the Associate Congregation of Eaglesham (originally formed by those dissenting from the patronage system), William Carswell was ordained on 26th June 1827. Five years later on 16th October 1832 he married Mary Cuthbertson.
He is described as ‘a man of parts, dignified and fretful’. The earlier part of his ministry, which was to last almost fifty years, coincided with a substantial increase in the population of Eaglesham (almost two and a half thousand in 1841) and with a period of intensive activity in the Church, both nationally and locally. At one time there were no fewer than five branches of the Christian Church in the village of Eaglesham (four of the Protestant and one of the Roman Catholic tradition). The subject of patronage was very much discussed culminating in the Disruption of 1843.
In 1847 the Associate Congregation joined with the Free Church to form the United Presbyterian Church. The U.P. Congregation, as it was known, met for worship in a building in Coo Lane until they built a fine new building in Montgomery Street in 1867 with seating for three hundred and fifty, at a cost of £1300. This became to be known as the Carswell Church and today is used as hall accommodation for Eaglesham Parish Church.
William Carswell served the congregation until 1875 when he was succeeded by the Rev. John Steedman of Stirling. Following his retirement William Carswell continued to be interested in both community and church affairs. The cause of his death at the age of seventy-three years was certified as ‘a fall of nine or ten feet - internal injuries ten days’. It is believed that he sustained this fall whilst attempting to repair the heating system in the church.