Gorbals Burial Ground (1715)
On my way to the Southern Necropolis I took a slight detour by way of the Gorbals Churchyard in Old Rutherglen Road. 
For more information regarding the Gorbals Burial Ground have a look at the New Glasgow Society site.

  Gorbals Churchyard



Above are some of the few remaining headstones.


The very poignant inscription above reads:

Sacred to the memory of Rachel Clark, daughter of William Clark, Printer, in Glasgow. Who died on the IX of October, MDCCCXXII, in the ninth year of her age. She was a child gifted with the most endearing sensibility and goodness of heart, and departed this life at a period when those amiciable qualifications were beginning to develope themselves, which had it pleased GOD to spare her, would have rendered her a blessing  to her parents and an ornament to society, leaving her afflicted Father and Mother  inconsolable for her loss.

 

All images copyright © 2001 Alan Wilson