The west of Scotland in historyРипол Классик, 2012 - History "Originally written as a series of independently standing articles, these essays present studies of families or events which took place in "the west of Scotland." Among the families are: Corehouse and the Cranstouns, Auchinleck and the Boswells, the Mures of Caldwell, Cathcart and Its Earls, the Steuarts of Coltness and Allanton, Andrew Stuart of Torrance and Castlemilk, Carnwath and the Lockharts of Lee, Dalrymple and the Stairs, Kelburne, Hawkhead, and the Earls of Glasgow (Boyle), Dundonald and Its Earls, Coilsfield and the Montgomerys, the Lockharts of Milton-Lockhart, Ardgowan: the Stewarts and Shaw-Stewarts, Pollok and the Maxwells, the MacGregors and the Colquhouns, the Grahams of Montrose, Cumbernauld House and the Flemings, the Spreulls of Glasgow, and the Fullartons of Fullarton. There are a wide range of articles included as well on such topics as Queen Mary, Renfrewshire witches, Galloway, the Herries peerage case, St. Columba, and the Scots."--Container insert. |
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Page vii
... MONTROSE FAMILY DESCENT AND POSSESSIONS, . . . . . . 167 MONTROSE PEERAGE CONTEST, . . . . . . . . . . 176 CUMBERNAULD HOUSE AND THE FLEMINGS, . . . . . . . 18| PAGE CUMBERHAULD Hovsn AND THE ELPHINSTONES, . . . .
... MONTROSE FAMILY DESCENT AND POSSESSIONS, . . . . . . 167 MONTROSE PEERAGE CONTEST, . . . . . . . . . . 176 CUMBERNAULD HOUSE AND THE FLEMINGS, . . . . . . . 18| PAGE CUMBERHAULD Hovsn AND THE ELPHINSTONES, . . . .
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... Montrose family, by purchase, from the Duke of Lennon and Richmond, and then about fifty years later, or in 1757, to Sir John Maxwell of Nether Pollok, whose descendants are still in possession. COREHOUSE' AND THE CRAN-S'TOUNS. Serums ...
... Montrose family, by purchase, from the Duke of Lennon and Richmond, and then about fifty years later, or in 1757, to Sir John Maxwell of Nether Pollok, whose descendants are still in possession. COREHOUSE' AND THE CRAN-S'TOUNS. Serums ...
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... Montrose Family owned the western suburb of Grahamston, extending from what is now the south-west cOrner of Union Street west to a little past Hope Street, and backward to a line slightly north of Gordon Street. (See paper on Grahamsth ...
... Montrose Family owned the western suburb of Grahamston, extending from what is now the south-west cOrner of Union Street west to a little past Hope Street, and backward to a line slightly north of Gordon Street. (See paper on Grahamsth ...
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... Montrose. He is said by the family genealogist to have treated the illustrious victim with personal courtesy and decorum, rebuking even “the grim Geneva ministers" for their savage rudeness on the scaffold. All this, however, did not ...
... Montrose. He is said by the family genealogist to have treated the illustrious victim with personal courtesy and decorum, rebuking even “the grim Geneva ministers" for their savage rudeness on the scaffold. All this, however, did not ...
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Contents
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CUMBERHAULD Hovsn AND THE ELPHINSTONES | 195 |
GLASGOW CHAMBER or COMMERCE | 206 |
OLD GLASGOW HOUSES | 213 |
THE SPREULLS 0F GLASGOW | 221 |
ANDREW MELVILLE IN Gmscow | 227 |
GRAHAM OF THE MINT | 238 |
THE RENFREWSHIRE WITCHES | 278 |
PAISLEY ABBEY _ | 284 |
PAISLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL | 290 |
ALEXANDER WILSON ORNITHOLOGIST | 299 |
TIIII BARNS or AYR | 306 |
THE HERRIES PEERAGE | 315 |
DRUMLANRIG AND THE DOUGLASBS | 324 |
ST COLUMBA I I | 335 |
GENERAL ROY or CARLUKE | 250 |
KILMARNOCK | 256 |
DUMFRIES ROOD FAIR | 265 |
LEADHILLS AND WANLOCK | 343 |
INVERKIP ro Wasr KILBRIDE | 353 |
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