Dalziel Estate Mausoleum on the site of St Patrick’s Chapel. Demolished in the 1890s, the graveyard contains memorials dating much earlier. Excerpt from "Motherwell Memories": James and Robert Prentice, father and son, were gravediggers and sextons for nearly seventy years. James died in 1874 aged 84 and Robert 1900 aged 74 they are buried along with members of their families. In those early days, before the Parish Council took over the graveyards, the gravediggers were employed without wages, their remuneration being the fees paid for interments, usually from 2/6 to 3/- for a young person and 5/6 for an adult. During the time of the Resurrectionists, or the Burk and Hare scare, graves were sometimes constructed as safes. The coffin was built in with bricks, and a large stone laid on the top and covered over with earth. At that time the Prentices were armed with guns, and kept a sharp vigil during the night. During the Cholera epidemic in Motherwell many people died suddenly. Sometimes a person who seemed to be all right in the morning would be dead and buried before nightfall. Indeed it is said that many were buried before they were dead, as long years after when some of the graves were opened the bodies were faced downwards in the coffins. In some graveyards bodies remain in a good state of preservation for a long time, as in South Dalziel Churchyard Motherwell, where the soil is very moist, whereas in the Manse Graveyard the life of a corpse is less than five years, only the bones remaining owing to the dry and sandy nature of the soil In some of the headstones the only inscription is the intimation that This is the intended burial ground of and his wife and family. but no date is given. There are some interesting inscriptions on the tombstones. Here is one: This stone is erected to the memory of two honest servants and affectionate friends. Margaret Innes and Christian Gray, who after long and faithful service died at Dalziel House, and according to their mutual wishes, were buried in the same grave. 1800-(2). Near the mausoleum is a tombstone, which is said to mark the site of the pulpit in the Old St. Patricks Church. It is that of the Rev James Clason, who was a prominent figure and took a leading part in the Disruption. -This is a list of the owners of the lairs in the Old Burial Ground near the Manse on the Dalziel Estate, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. The survey was done on March 7, 1893 by Alexander Bryden, Assistant Inspector. This burial ground is now on Royal Society for the Protection of Birds property. There are 202 graves in this graveyard. Several people might be buried in each lair. The owners and lair numbers are: 1. John Sommerville 2. Jane Sommerville 3. Robert Barron 4. William Kerr 5. Robert Lindsay 6. James Smith 7. Alexander Falconner 8. Catherine Kay 9. Robertson 10. James Browlie 11. Mrs. James King 12. Archibald King 13. William King 14. Hugh Prentice 15. Archibald Prentice 16. John Forrest 17. Archibald Faulds 18. William Torrance 19. John Bett 20. Thomas Thomson 21. Unknown 22. Unknown 23. Robina McIntyre 24. John Ralston 25. David Stevenston 26. John Lawson 27. William Miller 28. James Ralston 29. William Ross 30. John Horn Junior 31. John Horn Senior 32. Robert Nielson 33. James Muirhead 34. James Bell 35. John Hinshaw 36. John Horn 37. Alexander Horn 38. James Bell 39. David Easson 40. David Ross 41. Daniel Falconner 42. Arthur Lowe 43. John Prentice 44. James Smellie 45. William Smellie 46. Robert Smellie 47. Alexander Allan 48. James Howieson 49. Robert Brown 50. John Loudon 51. William Loudon 52. Robert Brownlie 53. Mrs. Forrest 54. James Stewart 55. Unknown 56. Archibald Fergusson 57. Robert Hendry 58. George Rose or Robert Ruddoch 59. John Draffin 60. David Prentice 61. James Lightbody 62. Archibald Telford 63. James Currie 64. Thomas Wardrope 65. William King 66. John Loudon Purdon 67. Unknown 68. William Gilfillan 69. Alexander Kirkland 70. James Kirkland 71. William Smellie 72. William Smellie 73. Gavin Hamilton 74. Mary Smellie 75. John Gourlay 76. William Baillie 77. Samuel Baillie 78. William Russell 79. William Weir 80. Walter Gourlay 81. William Gourlay 82. Hugh Glassford 83. James King 84. William King 85. John and William Rose 86. John Lightbody 87. John Boyce 88. George Brownlie 89. Lord H. (Hamilton?) of Dalziel 90. James Hendry 91. John Sutty 92. Robert Prentice 93. James Smith 94. Richard Draffan 95. Marion King 96. Archibald Brownlie 97. John Walker 98. James Eadie 99. William Eadie 100 William King 101 James King 102 Alexander Ru.... 103 James Bain 104 - King 105 Unknown 106 John King 107 George Kirkland 108 John Williamson 109 Dan Baillie 110 James Purdie 111 William Wilson 112 Jeannie Hastie 113 William Horn 114 John Horn 115 Unknown 116 Unknown (Scotts) 117 James King 118 Alexander King 119 Alexander King 120 King 121 William Hamilton 122 Unknown 123 Rev. J. Classon 124 James Patterson 125 Thomas King 126 Unknown 127 Adam Galloway 128 Alexander King 129 William Cassels 130 Adam Dickson 131 James Rennie 132 William King 133 Thomas Gracie 134 John Hamilton 135 King 136 Joseph Roswell (?) 137 James King 138 William Muir 139 Thomas Prentice 140 Archibald Prentice 141 Joseph Prentice 142 James Calder 143 John Prentice 144 John Prentice 145 John Prentice 146 Daniel Stevenson 147 Janet Falconner 148 James Purdie 149 Walter Purdie 150 Andrew Reid 151 Unknown 152 William Brown 153 William Prentice 154 Nisbett 155 William McKenzie 156 John Ferguson 157 Unknown 158 James Paterson 159 Alexander Nielson 160 James Wilson 161 Archibald Ferguson 162 James Miller 163 John Baillie 164 James Baillie 165 James Falconer 166 Margaret Falconer 167 William Nielson 168 Charles Forrest 169 James Bell Watt 170 John Marshall 171 John Marshall 172 Unknown 173 John Sym 174 William Cullen 175 Alexander Sym 176 John Sym 177 James Black 178 John Ralston 179 John Ralston 180 Alexander Hendry 181 Unknown 182 Unknown 183 Thomas Lindsay 184 Alexander Johnstone (Lindsay) 185 Alexander Johnstone 186 Charles Forrest 187 Andrew Mitchell 188 Unknown 189 Andrew Scott 190 James Davidson 191 Margaret Young 192 Alexander Yuill Junior 193 Alexander Yuill Senior 194 David Christie 195 Thomas King 196 McKay 197 William Anderson 198 Hendry Fergusson 199 John Fergusson 200 David Fergusson 201 Mathers 202 John Barrie