Kilmacolm
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 4 No 36 Rev Mr John Brown, plus Appendix p 579
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1845:
Kilmacolm pp 56-62, dated 1836
RMS I (867) 1392-3
RMS II (404) 1450, (871) 1466, (1612) 1484-5, (1868-9) 1489, (2062) 1491
RMS III (2073) 1539-40 on original of 1539, (2429) 1541, (2981) 1543 (3262) 1546 on original of 1545, (3277) 1546
RMS IV (153) 1547, (629) 1551, (1160) 1556-7
RMS V (1822) 1590-1
RMS VI (179) 1594
RMS VIII (732) 1621
RMS IX (640.1) 1637 on original of 1622, (773) 1637, (1854) 1647 on original of 1638, (1975) 1648
RSS I (213) 1498
RSS II (3302, 3359) 1539-40, (3584) 1540, (3966) 1541
RSS III (938) 1544, (2647) 1547-8
RSS IV (364) 1549, (685) 1550, (2271) 1553
RSS VII (204) 1575
GD3/1/3/12/1 1498
GD39/1/15 1505
GD39/1/69 1569
GD39/1/192 1619
GD39/1/250 1629
GD39/1/316 1671
GD39/5/7 1498
GD39/5/34 1541
GD39/5/36 1542
GD39/5/38 1545
GD39/5/49 1563
GD39/5/55 1566
GD39/5/57 1567
GD39/5/63 1574
GD39/5/85 1613
GD39/5/104 1635
GD77/311/1 1539
GD77/311/2 1545
GD112/25/27 1564
GD148/25 1480-1481
GD148/164 1544
GD148/174 1550
GD148/178 1551
GD148/314 1589
RH6/2101 1567
ER XIII p 664 1512
ER XVIII p 379 1543, p 384 1546, p 444 1548, pp 485-7 1549, p 523 1551
ER XX pp 478-9, 484 1575
ER XXI pp 460-1 1581, p 518 1586
Renfrew Retours (34-5) 1614, (38) 1616, (70-71) 1627, (96) 1635, (124) 1646, (129) 1647, (165) 1666, (169) 1670, (175) 1676, (177) 1678, (184) 1683, (190-1, 193) 1690, (196) 1694, (201) 1700, (211) 1614
RS 53 ff 1r-1v 1641
Laing Charters (236) 1498, (520) 1546, (525) 1546-7 (583, 586) 1551, (593) 1552, (636) 1555, (714) 1560, (916) 1575, (937) 1576, (2197) c. 1636, (2387-8) 1649, (2437) 1653, (2672) 1671, (2986) 1700, (3324) 1747
REG I No 315, pp 289-292, 1378
NRAS859/Box 203/Bundle 2 (Great seal charter of confirmation of 20s AE Ladymure) 1588
NRAS1209/1111/49 1489
NRAS4366/1 1496
NRAS4366/2 1497
RHP 141546 Plan of boundaries between estates of Brisbane (Ayrshire) and Duchal (Renfrewshire)
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 397. (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 91-96
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 Ladymuir and Craigends-Dennistoun.
OPS I pp 85-87
Maps
Pont (33)
Gordon (55)
Blaeu (Renfrew)
Roy (PC & FC)
Ainslie (1796)
The table gives a minimum of 146m for Kilmacolm.

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