SCORES of tiny mounds and indentations punctuate the grass of a forlorn corner of St Mary’s cemetery in Lanark. They are the evidence of a
dark episode in recent Scottish history that saw children who had
already been robbed of their lives then robbed of their identities.
It is estimated that the bodies of as many as 100 children lie unmarked
and unmourned in St Mary’s - all of them former residents of the town’s
notorious Smyllum orphanage. The Catholic nuns who ran the institution until it shut in the 1980s
already stand accused of terrorising the living in their care. http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/27990