Unsurprisingly a great number of our ancestors are buried in this Cemetery. The Bent Cemetery was developed by a private company and opened in 1853. The local council acquired the cemetery in 1958 and developed various extensions - the latest extension was opened in 2005. 

It is the last resting place of Lord Hamilton, The 1st Marquis of Hamilton and the 8th, 9th and 10th Dukes of Hamilton and their families after subsidence and flooding from the River Clyde affected the Hamilton Mausoleum. The 10th Duke was interred in an Egyptian sarcophagus of the Ptolemaic period.

Other notable people interred here are entertainer Sir Harry Lauder, parents of explorer David Livingston and more recently, the footballer Davie Cooper. 

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Cremated remains may also be interred or scattered within a lair in the cemetery.

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Records dating back to 1853 are available. If any of our family were coming to Scotland to do any research a visit to the cemetery would be essential.

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Here is a list of many of our relatives buried in the cemetery - There will no doubt be more that have yet to be recorded on our family tree.

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Mary Gardiner (born Waterston) 1858

Jane Waterston Gardiner on 10th June 1858

John Haddow on 7 November 1863.

Catherine Haddow on 31 December 1869.

John Frame on 28 September 1870.

Alexander Harris on 21 November 1878.

Jane Buchan Cameron on 17 July 1879.

John Cunningham on 17 March 1889.

Margaret (Maggie) McCardle Trainer on 29 June 1891.

Richard Marshall in 1892.

Martha McCallum on 9 March 1893

Mary McNoy on 26 September 1893.

Mary Summers on 11 May 1895

Samuel McCallum on 2 May 1896.

Agnes Paterson on 16 October 1896.

Grace Wardrope Harris on 16 July 1898.

Mary Callaghan Heaney on 14 January 1901.

Elizabeth McCarroll on 16 January 1901.

Archibald McCallum

Phyllis McCallum 29 August 1901

Jane (Jean) Waterston on 12 September 1901.

Jeanie Waterston (Jessie) Strachan on 26 July 1902.

Peter Strachan on 18 January 1904.

John McCarroll on 20 August 1908

Elizabeth McCallum on 2 October 1908

Margaret McCallum on 18 May 1908.

Mary Napier2743.

William Waterston Strachan on 4 July 1908.

Ann Newton McMunn on 4 August 1908.

John McCarroll on 20 August 1908.

Agnes Hendry Craig on 23 April 1909.

Martha Peacock McCallum on 10 April 1909.

Catherine McCarron Strachan on 29 March 1910.

Janet Lindsay Harris on 9 June 1910.

John Telford on 3 September 1912.

Matthew Inglis on 17 November 1913.

Patrick Burns on 27 July 1915

James Trainer on 13 October 1915

Grace Brown on 17 March 1923.

Mary McGarry on 25 July 1924.

Peter Cunningham on 12 February 1927.

Grace Harris in 1927.

Mary Mackie Cunningham on 18 August 1928.

Archibald McEwan McCallum Strachan on 15 April 1929.

Andrew Trainer 11 February 1933

Susan Strachan Begg on 8 July 1933.

Hugh Heaney on 9 March 1936.

John Strachan on 2 June 1936.

Norman Alexander Begg on 30 June 1937.

Mary (Maureen) Strachan McCarroll on 15 March 1938.

Mary Early on 12 September 1938.

James McCarroll (Formerly McCardle) in October 1938.

James Strachan on 18 February 1939.

Rose McCarroll on 23 December 1940

Alexander Craig Begg on 24 January 1944.

Edward Strachan (Remains buried in Burma)

David Paul Telford on 7 January 1948.

Margaret McCarroll Brown in March 1948

Catherine Nelson McCarroll on 4 January 1949.

Margaret Strachan Black 1949

Samuel McCallum on 17 February 1955

Mary Heaney2873 in 1958.

Elizabeth McCarroll on 2 July 1960

Isabella Morrison Strachan in 1988

James (Pud) McCarroll on 10 December 1990

Martha McCarroll June 1991

Peter Strachan in July 1994

James (Jim) McCarroll July 1997

Rena McCarroll Creechan 2019

Margaret McCarroll Allan 2019

Frank Allan 2019

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Due to privacy rules, burials from 1949 onwards aren’t in the public domain so from 1949 onwards people have been added to the list simply because I know they are there. Some haven’t actually been buried there, as the current family tradition in Hamilton favors cremation over burial, however their ashes are there or they have been mentioned on a headstone in remembrance.

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Also its worth noting that the original cemetery in Hamilton, at the old Relief Congregation Church (Next to the Town Hall) which existed in the early 1800’s was excavated in 1964 and all of the bodies exhumed and reburied on common ground at the Bent Cemetery – 2 known relatives who were reburied were Margaret Harris Strachan Martin and her second husband Robert Martin.

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There are several specific graves of interest here. They are detailed in the plans below. I've also provided information on each head stone and who is buried in each layer.