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10 October 2017

Smyllum orphans will be nameless no more.

Children who have lain in unmarked graves in Lanark’s St Mary’s Cemetery for up to 150 years are soon to be nameless no more. Although the order of nuns that ran Lanark’s Smyllum Orphanage from the 1860s to the 1980s, the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul, bowed to pressure several years ago to erect a memorial stone to children who died in their care in the vicinity of their unmarked final resting places, that stone carried no individual names.

http://www.carlukegazette.co.uk/news/smyllum-orphans-will-be-nameless-no-more-1-4580343