Inchinnan
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 3 No 73
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1845:
Inchinnan pp 113-134, dated 1836
OPS I pp 78-80, Appendix p 507
RMS II (1136) 1473, (2212) 1494, (2960) 1506 on original of 1505, (3023) 1506-7, (3712) 1511-12
RMS III (1203) 1532, (3121) 1545, (3269) 1546
RMS IV (1149) 1556-7 on an original of 1556, (1623) 1565, (2042) 1572, (2134) 1573 on original of 1572, (2868) 1579
RMS VII (1327) 1615
RMS VIII (589) 1624 on original of 1610, (762) 1624
RMS X (94) 1653
RMS XI (560) 1664, on original of 1662, (561) 1664
RSS I (3963, 3983) 1528
RSS III (1491) 1545-6
RSS IV (2295) 1553
RSS VI (1663) 1572
RRS I (82) time of David I
GD124/5/1 1375
GD220/1/F/5/7/12 1505
GD220/1/F/6/1/1 1512
GD220/1/F/6/2/5 1511-12
GD220/1/F/6/4/1 1521
GD220/1/F/6/4/2 1522
GD220/1/G/2/1/1 1545
GD220/2/1/99 1496
GD220/2/1/108 1505 or GD220/1/F/5/7/10 1505 (old catalogue number)
GD220/6/1991/1&2 1567
ER XVIII p 499 1550, p 535 1551-2, p 545 1552
ER XIX pp 559-560 1567
ER XX p 437 1572-3
Renfrew Retours (94) 1635, (203, 208) 1608, (209) 1612
Laing Charters (232) 1497
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(1818)’). Table of Property p 384
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, compiled about 1710 by William Hamilton of Wishaw, Maitland Club, Glasgow, 1831 pp 86-88
Fraser, W., Lennox Vol II, No 45 1432, No 99 1496, No 108 1505, No 128 1514, No 130 1516, No 132 1520, No’s 143-5 1530, No 154 1565
Inchinnan, Transactions of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, 1921-22, pp 44-46.
(p 45 has a reference to a painting of the old church prior to 1828)
Cowan, I.B., Mackay, P.H.R. & Macquarrie, A. The Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1983.
Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections I, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1906 pp 423-425 for accounts of Inchenan and Ereskin parishes in 1725.
Maps
Pont (33)
Gordon (55)
Blaeu (Renfrew)
Roy (PC & FC)
Ainslie (1796)
Thomson(1826)
Roy’s maps give a number of small settlement names in Inchinnan.
Hamilton of Wishaw (c. 1710) p 87 wrote that ‘This parish did all belong to the Lord of Darnlay, afterwards the Earles of Lennox, … except the lands of Barns, Barnhill, Aldlands, Newlands, and Glenshinoch, which were given [away] … in the time of King Robert the First’ [1306-1329]. (Glenshinoch was in Erskine parish).
Assessing the total valuation of Inchinnan is made difficult by the patchiness of the dataset. We have a ‘global’ figure of £40 (60m) which probably did not include the £10 Barns, Barnhill and Aulands. When we add up the original assessments that have survived they only come to about half of the notional 60m.
I have settled on a figure of 80m for the total value of Inchinnan but I am lacking evidence to fully substantiate this.
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