Cathcart
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 5 No 22 1793
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1845:
Cathcart pp 495-511, nd
OPS I p 65, Appendix p 505
RMS II (2817) 1504-5, (3118) 1507, (3484) 1510
RMS III (482) 1527, (998) 1530-1, (2982) 1543, (3074, 3076) 1544-5, (3251) 1546
RMS IV (587) 1550-1, (632) 1551, (1444) 1562-3 on original of 1562, (1674) 1565, (2338) 1574,
RMS VI (174) 1594, (853) 1598-9 on original of 1589, (1689) 1606,
RMS VII (900) 1613, (1130) 1614, (1315) 1615, (1997) 1619 on original of 1618
RMS VIII (732) 1621
RMS IX (638) 1637, (640.1) 1637 on original of 1622, (1647) 1646 on original of 1617, (1701) 1646
RMS X (422) 1655 on original of 1653
RMS XI (314) 1662, (529) 1663, (1055) 1667, (1173) 1668
RSS III (654) 1543-4, (1381) 1545, (1906, 1910) 1546, (2957) 1548
RSS IV (994, 997) 1550
RRS II (220) 1177 x 1185
Renfrew Retours (6) 1597, (9) 1600, (18) 1604, (30) 1610, (37) 1615, (38) 1616, (50) 1619, (58) 1621, (88) 1633, (107) 1639, (121) 1645, (124) 1646, (142) 1649, (159) 1661, (164) 1664, (203) 1596, (205) 1591, (212) 1614
Volume II of the Retours, published 1811, has a section titled ‘Inquisitiones de possessione quinquennali ad capellam domini regis retornatae’.
No 4 of 1676 refers to Newlands. (Hereafter ‘Renfrew Retours Q (No 4) 1676’).
No 19 of 1688 refers to several properties in Cathcart. (Hereafter ‘Renfrew Retours Q (No 19) 1688’).
GD1/178/3 1543-4
GD3/1/1/42/9 1512
GD3/1/1/48/1 1503
GD3/1/1/74 1562
GD3/1/2/4/14 1811
GD25/1/470 1545
GD148/6 1401
GD148/7 no date
GD148/8 1437
GD148/9 1437
GD148/41 1491
GD148/42 1491
GD148/43 1491
GD148/45 1494
GD148/63-66 1504-5
GD148/75-77 1508
GD148/79-80 1509
GD148/82 1510
GD148/83-84 1510
GD148/89 1512
GD148/90-92 1512
GD148/106 1524
GD148/203 [1576]
GD148/239 1590
GD148/306 1576
GD148/400 1863-1898
ER XV p 619 1524
ER XVI p 528 1530, p 611 1536
ER XVIII pp 390-1 1545, pp 509-10 1550
ER XIX p 564 1567
ER XX p 388 1568, p 498 1576
ER XXI pp 482-3 1583
ER XXIII p 396 1597, p 411 1598
Fraser, W., The Cartulary of Pollok-Maxwell, p 30 No 1 1732, p 33 No 6 1753, p 34 No 10 1760, p 36 No 2 1760, p 78 No 18 1832, p 107 No 8 1816, p 154 No 1 1625, p 155 No 6 1639, p 156 No 7 1646, p 157 No 9 1658, No 11 1658, pp 157-8 No 13 1720, p 158 No 1 1658, p 158 No 2 1658, p 166 No 4 1723, p 175 No 8 1740, p 176 No’s 9-11 1740, p 181 No 1 1726, p 184 No 13 1804, p 185 No 18 1749, p 204 No 1 1606, p 205 No’s 3 & 4, 1668, p 230 No 7 1635, p 342 No 1 1615, p 378 No 11, 1739, pp 380-1 No 15 1764
Liber protocollorum M. Cuthberti Simonis Vols I & II (204-213, 220)
Laing Charters (2382) 1647
Crawfurd, G., A Genealogical History of the Royal and Illustrious Family of the Stewarts, from the year 1034 to the Year 1710 …, Edinburgh, 1710. (Hereafter ‘Crawfurd’).
Robertson, G., A general description of the Shire of Renfrew …, Paisley, 1818 (Hereafter ‘Robertson’). Table of Property p 265
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, compiled about 1710 by William Hamilton of Wishaw, Maitland Club, Glasgow, 1831 pp 116-118
Neilson, G., Birkenside and the Stewardship of Scotland, History of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, Vol XXIV, pp 126-147, (1919-1922) Edinburgh, 1923.
Liber Collegii Nostre Domine/Munimenta Fratrum Predicatorum de Glasgu, ed., Joseph Robertson, Maitland Club, Glasgow, 1846.
Fraser, W., Memorials of the Montgomeries, Vol II No’s 31-4 1425
Fraser, W., Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok Vol I, Edinburgh, 1863
Fraser, W., The Cartulary of Pollok-Maxwell, p 392, mentions a plan of the lands of Cathcart. (I have not seen this).
Maps (available via the National Library of Scotland digital Map Library – online)
Pont (33)
Gordon (55)
Blaeu (Renfrew)
Roy (PC & FC)
Richardson, Map of the town of Glasgow & country seven miles around (1795)
Ainslie (1796)
Thomson (1826)
EMS.s.374 (under Estate Maps on the NLS website) – Feuing plan of the Estate of Braehead, 1881
RMP pp 5-6, WW Scott No 8 1165 x 1173, is the founding charter of Paisley by Walter, son of Alan. One of the donations was the church of ‘Katkert’ (Cathcart) with all its pertinents.
RRS II (220) 1177 x 1185 is William I’s confirmation to Paisley priory of the church of ‘Catkert’ (Cathcart). The document actually says ‘to God and the church of Saint Mirin of Paisley and the monks there serving God’. It is interesting that Mirin was the only Paisley saint mentioned. Also printed in RMP p 106, WW Scott No 103 which he dates 1179 x 1185.
One of the difficulties with Cathcart is that not all of the parish was in Renfrew – part was in Lanark. Furthermore, there are differences in the drawing of the parish boundaries. This leaves room for debate as to what should properly be included. Readers will need to take these considerations into account when viewing the parish table. (For example Polmadie is not included, although maps by Ainslie(1796) and Thomson(1826) place it just inside Cathcart. Robertson(1818), p 265, gives it in Govan parish, but in Renfrewshire).
Both Purves and Stewart show figures of £40 (60m) for Cathcart but it is not clear precisely what this included. They also show figures of £7 (10½m) for the part of Lee owned by Cuningham of Cuninghamhead. The total comes to £47 or 70½m.
The table shows just over 75m but may not have captured the full value of Lee.
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