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Redgauntlet Road, HELENSBURGH, G84 7TZ

Against the wall of the cemetery close to the entrance. IN MEMORY OF THE REVD JOHN ANDERSON. FORTY YEARS MINISTER IN HELENSBURGH, DIED 10TH JANY 1867, IN THE SIXTY-SECOND YEAR OF HIS AGE. “UNTIL THE DAY BREAK, AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY.”

On Old Luss Road. The cemetery, which is Category B listed https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB34824 contains 41 Commonwealth War Graves and many other notable memorials. The lodge house that used to be beside the gates was demolished after this photograph Image was taken in 2013.

This section of Redgauntlet Road leads to Colgrain Primary School at the far end.

This is the eastern boundary of the cemetery. At the far end of the path on the right, a memorial for the Kidstons of Ferniegair is visible (I have not depicted it separately, since several of the names on it are recent). Helensburgh's Image is named after a member of that family; see that link for further details. See also Image Click on the end-note title for other views of the cemetery.

For context, see Image The present view is from the other side. This former gate-lodge was in poor condition; it was set to be demolished, its situation making a conversion to residential use impractical. By 2014, the building had been cleared away.

This entrance is on Old Luss Road. The building just to the left of the entrance is the old gate lodge, which was in poor condition: Image By 2014, it had been demolished.

This finely carved memorial was "erected by Thomas Weir, writer, Glasgow, and Jeanie MacIndoe, his wife, in memory of their daughter, Janet Walker, (Nettie), born 3rd September 1876, died 1[4th July 1881?]" (part of the inscription has flaked off). The parents, and other members of the family, are also commemorated. "Writer", as Thomas Weir is described in the inscription, was then the usual term for a lawyer, notary, or solicitor. This is one of the memorials that is specifically mentioned in the cemetery's listing text (see the end-note for a link). The memorial, which is located near the eastern edge of the cemetery (Image), is described there as a composite column entwined with bay leaf garland. The sculptor was T F Hunter of Glasgow. He was one of the founders of Hunter & Clark, a firm that was in existence until recently, and he had previously been one of the partners of the firm Arnott & Hunter.

On the left is the eastern boundary wall of Image Not far ahead, the name Kirkmichael appears on the signs. This is an old name, long pre-dating the name Helensburgh: for example, the lands of Kirkmichael Stirling were, in the middle of the fifteenth century, the subject of a dispute between William Stirling, Laird of Cadder, and Gilbert Stirling. Rather earlier, the Lennox Cartulary contains a charter confirming to Walter of Fosselane (Faslane) various lands, including those of "Keppach (Keppoch Image), de Culgrayane (Colgrain Image), de Camceskanys (Camis Eskan Image), de Kirkmychell, etc.", that had earlier been granted by Malcolm Earl of Lennox (d.1333) to Avileth* of Fosselane. (The grid references given here simply indicate where the modern equivalents of those names appear on present-day maps; they are not intended to give the exact location of the original lands.) (*) Or "Aulay". This Avileth or Aulay of Faslane was the grandson of an Earl of Lennox. The name was held by several members of the family, and charters variously spell it Auleth, Ameleth, Amelech, Amhlew, Hamelen, and so on, but all of those forms can be thought of as essentially being the name "Aulay" (as in Clan MacAulay).

The stone commemorates several descendants of Arthur Oughterson and of his wife Janet Robertson. Some of them were interred here, and others in South America. (The structure has some near twins in the same cemetery: a memorial to the builder James McKinnon, signed "J Craig", and a memorial to "Robert Hendry, Esq, chemist and druggist", signed "D Garland".)