Erskine
Principal Sources
OSA, Erskine, Vol 9 No 5 by Rev. Walter Young
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1845:
Erskine pp 500*-526* dated 1840, revised 1842.
OPS I pp 80-1
RMS II (1612) 1484-5, (2062) 1491
RMS IV (1149) 1556-7, (1361) 1559, (1445) 1562-3
RMS V (712) 1584
RMS VI (179) 1594, (2168) 1608
RMS VIII (718) 1620, (727) 1621 on original of 1614, (767) 1624
RMS IX (773) 1637, (872) 1638, (1112) 1642 on original of 1638, (1303) 1643, (1667) 1646
RMS X (94) 1653
RMS XI (1012) 1667 on original of 1666, (1157) 1668
RSS I (213) 1498
RSS IV (3112) 1555-6
RSS VIII (1816) 1583-4, (2279) 1584
ER XVIII pp 501-2 1550, p 564 1553, p 608 1556
ER XIX p 515 1563
ER XX p 438 1572-3
ER XXIII p 422 1598-9
Renfrew Retours (31) 1610, (34) 1614, (78) 1629, (94, 97) 1635, (116-117) 1642, (148) 1656, (154) 1658, (187) 1686, (188) 1688
Laing Charters (236) 1498
GD1/129/3/3 1535
GD1/129/3/18 1626
GD1/129/3/23 1630
GD1/129/3/24 1632
GD39/5/104 1635
GD124/1/406 c. 1350
GD124/1/407 c. 1350
GD124/5/1 1375
GD148/4 1386-1387
GD148/28 1483
GD148/85-87 1510
GD148/104-105 1523
GD148/109-110 1526-1527
GD148/111-112 1527
GD148/144 1536
GD148/149-150 1539
GD148/173 1549-1550
GD148/291 1564
GD148/292 1565
GD148/309 1581-1582
GD437/158 1791
In the National Records of Scotland, GD86 refers to the Sir William Fraser Charters and GD 86/1002 includes ‘Collection of Inventories of Writs’. Within these No 18 deals with The lands of Dargavells alias Lochermoss, “from 1633 downward” and No 19 has “Remarks upon the progress of Dargavells in the persone of Craigs”. I have not yet seen either of these and the absence of a land-assessment for Dargavel leaves a big hole in the record for Erskine parish.
NRAS3058/1 1599, NRAS3058/2 & 3 1604, NRAS3058/4 1636
NRAS3058/6, 7 & 8 1640, NRAS3058/9 1662, NRAS3058/10 1672
NRAS3058/12 & 13 1679, NRAS3058/14 1690, NRAS3058/15 1696,
NRAS3058/17 1714, NRAS3058/18 1733
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, p 389. (Hereafter ‘Robertson(1818)’).
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, compiled about 1710 by William Hamilton of Wishaw, Maitland Club, Glasgow, 1831 pp 88-91
Fraser, W., The Cartulary of Pollok-Maxwell, Edinburgh, 1875
Mackinlay, The Pre-Reformation Church in Scottish Place-Names, Edinburgh, 1904
Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections I, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1906 pp 423-425 for accounts of Inchenan and Ereskin parishes in 1725. (Burn of Finlastoun is western boundary).
Dodds, J. (ed.), The Diary and General Expenditure Book of William Cunningham of Craigends, kept chiefly from 1673 to 1680, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1887; (hereafter ‘Craigends’). It includes a ‘Scheme of Rental’ drawn up c. 1690, which refers to Park-Erskine (pp 144-147).
Maps
Pont (33)
Gordon (55)
Blaeu (Renfrew)
Roy (PC & FC)
Ainslie (1796)
Thomson(1826)
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, compiled about 1710 by William Hamilton of Wishaw (p 89), claims Erskine extended to 100 merklands.
The table gives a total of 97m and a figure of 100m AE comes from Renfrew Retours (94) 1635. The data is consistent so we can be confident of a 100m total. The only caveat is that Purves and Stewart give Barscube, Drums and Freeland as extra – so Erskine may have been a little more than 100m.
The NSA p 516* gives 5121 acres of arable land in Erskine. If we assume 104 acres to a carucate that would give us 49 carucates in the parish.
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