According to ‘suekington’ (McConnell/ Bottomley Ancestry Public Tree), David Campbell McCreath is buried at Kirkmichael Churchyard. The stone reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF AGNES HUNTER
WHO DIED IN CROSSHILL 13th OCT 1884 AGED 80 YEARS
WIDOW OF JOHN ANDREW WHO DIED IN CROSSHILL MARCH 1829
AND OF HER SECOND HUSBAND
DAVID McCREATH WHO DIED IN CROSSHILL 31st DEC 1849 AGED 36 YEARS
David’s birth entry in Ayr Parish: ‘David Campbell McCreath son. Lawful of Robert McCreath Wright at Glengall and Agnes Campbell his spouse born 30 Sept 1807, baptd 2 Octr. by Robert Auld’.
The 1841 Census records a David McCreath, a grocer – aged 34 living at King Street Crosshill:
David McCreath (34) Grocer born Ayrshire c1807
Agnes McCreath (35) born Kirkmichael c1806
John McCreath (1) born Kirkmichael c1840
This seems to confirm that the age at death is wrongly recorded on the headstone
There is no record of David in the 1851 Census, consistent with the gravestone inscription
Agnes McCreath (46) Grocer born Kirkmichael c1805
John McCreath (11) Scholar born Kirkmichael c1840
Mary McCreath (9) Scholar born Kirkmichael c 1842
Agnes McCreath (7) Scholar born Kirkmichael c1844
Margaret McCreath (4) born Kirkmichael c 1847
Again additional circumstantial confirmation that this is David Campbell McCreath, son of Robert McCreath and Agnes Campbell.
In 1861 there is also a Jeanie McCreath born about 1849. The year of David’s death; and also a visitor, John McLure.
In 1881 the mother Agnes (75) is listed as the Postmistress, Agnes (36), the daughter, as a Grocer and Assistant Postmistress, Jane (Jeanie) (30) as a grocer. There is also listed a niece, Agnes Anderson (2).