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Stonehouse Cemetery known locally as the  Manse road cemetery  or middle cemetery is , only a few yards from  St Ninians Kirkyard and the Glebe cemetery.

Opened in 1906, the cemetery  is rectangular in shape and  designed as a lawn cemetery bounded  by a decorative perimeter wall while the interior is laid out around a simple geometric  central feature focusing on the war memorial accessed from the main pathway with the  rest  of  the  site laid  out in  a  grid  formation.  It is landscaped with continuous borders and ever green trees.

The cemetery contains 1,495 lairs as they are known in Scotland  and the burial took p[lace on 17th August 1906. The cemetery is laid out in four  different sections (A,B, C and D) and is arranged around a central circular feature containing the Cenotaph dedicated to the men of Stonehouse who died in the two World Wars. (A searchable  index  of personnel who were killed in the Great War (WW1)  is listed under Village at war , however further details are available to paid members under the historical information drop down menu.

The group through its voluntary members commenced recording the gravestone inscriptions for the cemetery. Thanks go to late Harry Carty who commenced this work.  

It should be noted that the information recorded on the site is only a snapshot of when it was carried out and any burials, alterations to  gravestones or new gravestones will have to be added.  A layout plan can be viewed by clicking

here .  An index of interments was compiled by the late John Roger a member of the group for a number of years and whilst it is not 100 percent up to date it will give those researching family history a starting point for searching the cemetery.

War Memorial

Erected  and unveiled in 1921 costing £650 (information and extracts in members section)  and  re-dedicated on 6th November 2008 following the addition of further names the re-dedication service organised by William Mackie and attended by MP’s, MSP’s,  local councilors and military personnel.

Research on the war memorial  personnel was started by the late Jim Davidson of Aldersyde cottage on Side head road and subsequently picked up by William Mackie and then John Roger who are also no longer with us. Through their research a further twenty eight personnel from Stonehouse were identified as missing from the Cenotaph and with lottery funding  obtained in 2007  these names were added in 2008 along with the cleaning of the war memorial, pointing of the steps.