Inverkip
Principal Sources
OSA, Innerkip, Rev. Mr Thomas Brown, Vol 9, No VII
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1845:
Innerkip pp 525-527 dated 1842
RMS I (673) 1379
RMS I App. 2 Index A No 1798, Index B No 52
RMS II (285) 1443-4, (2649) 1502, (3651) 1511
RMS III (584) 1528, (670) 1528, (817, 831) 1529, (2124, 2125) 1539-40, (2300) 1540-1, (2991) 1543-4, (3068) 1544-5)
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 1, Paisley 1885, No 77 = RMS III (831) 1529 above.
RMS IV (537) 1550, (2104) 1572, (2884) 1579, (2941-4) 1579, (2985) 1579-80 on original of 1574
RMS V (2051) 1591-2
RMS VIII (725) 1621, (1126) 1627
RMS IX (41) 1634, (107) 1634, (1854) 1647 on original of 1638
RMS XI (538) 1663
RSS I (400) 1499, (624, 644) 1500-1501, (1892) 1509, (2459) 1512
RSS II (359) 1529, (3371) 1539-40, (3883) 1540-1, (4627) 1542, (4781) 1542, (4867) 1542
RSS III (165) 1542-3, (350, 462) 1543, (1741) 1546, (2998) 1548
RSS IV (407) 1549, (2271) 1553, (2974) 1555
RSS V, Part II, (2837) 1566
RSS VII (204) 1575
RRS IV Part I (19) 1253
GD3/1/3/16/1 1572
GD3/1/10/92/1 1502
GD3/1/10/92/2 1502
GD3/2/2/23 1509
GD220/1/A/1/2/9 1253
ER XV p 606 1523
ER XVI pp 563-4 1533
ER XVIII pp 386-7 1545, p 412 1547, pp 494, 496 1550, pp 556, 558 1553
ER XX p 402 1569, pp 410-11 1570, p 530 1578
ER XXI p 539 1587
ER XXII p 441 1590, p 452 1591
Laing Charters (342) 1522-3, (500-503) 1545, (523) 1546, (810-811) 1566, (1004) 1580, (1294) 1595, (1307) 1596, (1918) 1623, (2025) 1629, (2102) 1632, (2297-8) 1641
AS II (92) 1620
Renfrew Retours (1-4) 1545, (10) 1600, (12) 1602, (15) 1603, (21) 1606, (24) 1607, (33) 1610, (46) 1617, (55-6) 1620, (74) 1628, (77) 1629, (85) 1631, (95) 1635, (152-3) 1658, (157-158) 1659, (160) 1661, (173) 1675, (202) 1594, (204) 1591
RS53 ff 4r-4v 1641
NRAS1847 (held by Glasgow City Archives) is the catalogue entry in the National Register of Archives (maintained by the National Records of Scotland) for the Ardgowan Estate Papers.
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 424. (Hereafter ‘Robertson(1818)’). (This is a continuation of Crawfurd above).
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, compiled about 1710 by William Hamilton of Wishaw, Maitland Club, Glasgow, 1831 pp 104-6
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 1, Paisley 1885; Volume 2, Paisley 1890.
Reports on the State of Certain Parishes in Scotland, 1627, Maitland Club, Edinburgh, 1835 – Parish of Houstone pp 193-194.
Registrum Monasterii de Passelet pp 112-113
OPS I, pp 87-88, 507
- Macdonald Crawford, Innerkip 1798-1858, Greenock, 1946
Maps
Pont (33)
Gordon (55)
Blaeu (Renfrew)
Roy (PC & FC)
Ainslie (1796)
NLS Acc.10086, 103 1845 – Plan of the Lands of Kelly, High and Low Finnock and Wemys Bay in the County of Renfrew, and Oakfield in the County of Ayr.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 2, pp 165-168 gives the Innerkip properties contained in the Semple Rental of 1644. These contain some valuations, but possibly not all of them. The two principal holdings were Lavin (total £7 10s 4d) and Auchinfour (total £9 13s 5d).
Inverkip lost some 63 merklands after the foundation of Greenock parish at the end of the sixteenth century. This took place in two stages – See Greenock Text Summary for details. Finnart, which was divided in this process, must once have been a very important property of some 60 merklands.
What was left in Inverkip comes to just over 142m. If we add what was taken to Greenock the original parish was about 205m.
It is striking how many of the assessments in Inverkip are £5 or multiples thereof.
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