“Here lies the Smith—to wit—Tam Gouk,
His Faither and his Mither,
Wi’ Tam, and Jock, and Joan, and Noll,
And a’ the Gouks thegither.
When on the yird Tam and his wife
Gree’d desprate ill wi’ ither,
But noo, without e’en din or strife,
They tak’ their Nap thegither.”
In Bothwell there appears:—
“Erected by Margaret Scott in memory of her husband, Robert Stobo, late smith and farrier, Goukthrapple, who died, May 1834, in the 70th year of his age.