Person:Christopher Shearer (9)

After his marriage to Janet Hood, they lived on the Highflat farm. The 1881 census shows them, with their two sons and two of their daughters living on the farm. He died on 1st February 1901 aged 74 years and is buried in the parish churchyard where there is a tombstone in his memory. If the notation on his gravestone is correct, then Christopher's actual year of birth is 1827, not 1821 as noted in our records. I suspect that the inscription is incorrect since the both 1881 census and 1851 census give his year of birth as being 1821.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ada Jane Shearer and The Shearer Historians. Shearer Family History. (Created in Elma Township in 1938 and maintained by Shearer Reunion Historians. Information was reported by knowledgeable family members and was well maintained in the early years.).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Isa Cleland. Information that Isa researched on the Shearers. (This information was gathered by Isa until her death in 1999. Most is copied from the Shearer Family Tree.).
3.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. International Genealogical Index (R) (2). (Copyright (c) 1980, 2000, data as of January 2000).
4. ↑ The name of the Churchyard where Chistopher was buried was obtained from an employee of the East Kilbride library via email.