Lennox General Resources

Lennox: General Resources

 

There are a number of general resources for the Lennox area which I have listed here rather than repeat them many times under individual parishes.

 

 

Nimmo, Stirlingshire, 1777 (particularly the map based on Edgar’s Survey of 1745)

 

The Accounts of the Great Chamberlains of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1817

 

Liber S. Marie de Calchou, (hereafter Book of Kelso), Edinburgh, 1846

 

Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, I, Edinburgh, 1843

 

Fraser, W., The Stirlings of Keir, Edinburgh, 1858 (Unfortunately the charters given in this volume have a number of minor anomalies which I have silently corrected on the grounds that they are probably just errors which were not picked up during proof-reading – for instance ‘u’ for ‘n’, ‘e’ for ‘c’).

 

Fraser, W., The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country, Vols I & II, Edinburgh, 1869

 

Fraser, W., The Book of Carlaverock, II, Edinburgh, 1873

 

Fraser, W., The Lennox, II, Edinburgh, 1874

 

Fraser, W., The Red Book of Menteith, II, Edinburgh, 1880

 

Irving, J., The History of Dumbartonshire, 1857

 

Irving, J., The Book of Dumbartonshire, Vols I-III, Edinburgh, 1879

 

Shennan, H., Boundaries of Counties and Parishes in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1892

 

Calendar of the Laing Charters, J Anderson (ed.), Edinburgh, 1899

 

Argyll Sasines Vol I, H Campbell, Edinburgh, 1933

 

Argyll Sasines Vol II, H Campbell, Edinburgh, 1934

 

Timperley, L.R., A Directory of landownership in Scotland c. 1770, Edinburgh, 1976

 

Lord Cooper, Select Scottish Cases of the Thirteenth Century, Edinburgh, 1944

 

Cowan, I.B., Mackay, P.H.R. & Macquarrie, A. The Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1983.

 

Neville, C.J., Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland, Dublin, 2005

 

Taylor, S., The Early History and Languages of West Dunbartonshire in Brown, I., (ed.) Changing Identities Ancient Roots, Edinburgh, 2006

 

Márkus, G., Saints and Boundaries: the pass of St Mocha and St Kessog’s Bell in Journal of Scottish Name Studies 2 (2008)

 

McNiven, P., Spittal place-names in Menteith and Strathndrick: evidence of crusading endowments? in The Innes Review, Vol 64, No 1, Spring 2013, pp 23-38

 

Drummond, P.J., An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin, PhD thesis, Glasgow University, 2014

 

 

 

The National Library of Scotland website offers a wonderful collection of early maps of Scotland in digital format. For the Lennox this includes maps by

Pont

Blaeu

Gordon

Roy (Fair Copy). The Protracted Copy is available at the British Library.

Ross – Dunbartonshire, 1777

Grassom – Map of (County of) Stirling 1817

Thomson

Ordnance Survey (particularly the 6″:1 mile 1st Series)