Kilbarchan
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 15 No 23 1795
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1845:
Kilbarchan pp 353-382, dated 1838
OPS I pp 83-85
RMS I Appendix 2, Index A No 1873 (dated 1399), Index B No 27; Index A No 1975 (dated 1413), Index B No 8.
RMS II (259) 1440-1 on original of 1440, (1166) 1474, (1406) 1478 on original of 1458, (1579) 1483-4, (1901) 1489, (3020) 1506, (3247) 1508
RMS III (828) 1529, (928) 1530 on original of 1529-30, (2124) 1539-40, (2991) 1543-4
RMS IV (586) 1550-1, (1600) 1565 on original of 1564, (2104) 1572, (2411-2412) 1575 on originals of 1568.
RMS V (260) 1581 on original of 1580, (1822) 1590-1 on original of 1589, (2070) 1591-2
RMS VI (230) 1594-5 on original of 1593, (231) 1594-5, (605) 1597 on original of 1558
RMS VII (672) 1612 on original of 1611, (1841) 1618
RMS VIII (732) 1621, (1046) 1627
RMS IX (41) 1634, (640.1) 1637 on original of 1622, (640.2) 1637, (2081) 1649
RMS X (326) 1654
RMS XI (538) 1663, (1152) 1668
RSS I (2013) 1509-10
RSS II (2190) 1536, (2586) 1538, (3467, 3676) 1540
RSS III (534) 1543, (854) 1544, (1229) 1545
RSS IV (2251, 2271) 1553
RSS V Part I (574) 1558-9
RSS VI (1788, 1790) 1572
RSS VII (2634) 1580
ER XVII p 735 1537
ER XIX p 494 1562
ER XX pp 469-70 1574, p 480 1575, pp 488-9 1575
ER XXI p 433 1580, p 498 1583-4, p 505 1584-5
ER XXII pp 503-4 1594
ER XXIII p 422 1598-9
GD3/1/3/16/1 1572
GD39/1/14 1399
GD39/1/93 1577
GD39/1/316 1671
GD39/5/60 1572
GD39/5/104 1635
GD86/347 1602
GD148/1 c. 1309
GD148/16-18 1477
GD148/19 1478-1479
GD148/22 1479
GD148/24 1480-1481
GD148/34 1488
GD148/61 1503
GD148/81 1509-10
GD148/95 1514
GD148/100 1520
GD148/114 1527-1528
GD148/117 1529
GD148/119 & 120 1531-1532
GD148/121 1531-1532 to 1627 (Inventory of Writs)
GD148/122 1531-1532
GD148/123 1532
GD148/124 1533
GD148/125-128 1533
GD148/130-131 1533
GD148/134 1534
GD148/135 1534-1535
GD148/136-141 1535
GD148/148 1538
GD148/154-156 1540
GD148/157-158 1540-1541
GD148/160 1541
GD148/161 1543
GD148/165 1544
GD148/166-167 1547
GD148/168-170 1547-1548
GD148/175-177 1550-1551
GD148/181 1552
GD148/185 1556
GD148/186 1556
GD148/189 1558-1559
GD148/192 1564
GD148/193 1566
GD148/194 1567
GD148/197 1573
GD148/198 1574
GD148/199 1574
GD148/200 1575
GD148/201 1575
GD148/202 1575-6
GD148/204 1577
GD148/210 1582
GD148/212 1583
GD148/213 1583
GD148/221 1585
GD148/222 1585
GD148/223 & 224 1585
GD148/227 1586
GD148/228 1586
GD148/244 1593
GD148/245 1594
GD148/247 1594-1595
GD148/255 1595-1596
GD148/257 1596
GD148/280 1598
GD148/281 1598
GD148/294 1568
GD148/295 1568
GD148/296-297 1568
GD148/298 1568
GD148/300 & 301 1570
GD148/303 1575
GD148/304 1575
GD148/305 1575
GD148/312 1583
GD148/313 1586
GD148/316 1591-2
GD148/317 1591-1592
GD148/321 1597-1598
GD148/322 & 323 1598
GD148/325-326 1598-9
GD148/402 1886/7
GD237/12/34/6 1750
GD237/12/34/19 1803
GD437/158 1791
Renfrew Retours (8) 1600, (14) 1603, (26) 1608, (34) 1614, (38) 1616, (48) 1617, (63) 1624, (65) 1625, (96) 1635, (100) 1637, (111) 1641, (123-4) 1646, (140) 1649, (143) 1653, (150) 1656, (165) 1666, (168) 1668, (169) 1670, (174-5) 1676, (179) 1678, (180) 1679, (183) 1680, (189, 191-3) 1690, (197) 1695
RS53 ff 5r-5v 1642
RS53 ff 16r-17v 1642
RS53 ff 44r-45r 1642
RS53 ff 49v-50r 1642
RS53 ff 52v-53r 1642
Charter Chest of the Earldom of Dundonald (115) 1640, (227) 1537, (230) 1578, (234) 1582, (235) 1614, (238) 1631, (239) 1632, (240) 1631 & 1632, (241) 1632, (245) 1665, (307) 1560, (309) 1564, (311) 1581, (313) 1519, (314) 1607, (319) 1619, (320) 1620, (321) 1637, (338) 1569, (339) 1584, (341) 1605, (344) 1606
Laing Charters (94) 1413, (685) 1558, (2456, 2458) 1654, (2515) 1657, (2659) 1670
NRAS4366/1 1496
NRAS4366/2 1497
RHP 20145 Plan of Craigends policies, mostly north of the River Gryfe, early 19th century.
RHP 20153 Plan of the estate of Milliken, 1886
Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections Vol. II, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1907, pp 201-210, ‘A Description of Renfrewshyre from some loose unbound sheets’. (No author, no date, but from internal evidence not too long after 1695).
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 363.
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, compiled about 1710 by William Hamilton of Wishaw, Maitland Club, Glasgow, 1831 pp 101-104, p 125, pp 140-141. (Hereafter Hamilton).
Mackinlay, The Pre-Reformation Church in Scottish Place-Names, Edinburgh, 1904
Nisbet, S., ‘A Map which changed History: Milliken Estate’, Renfrewshire Local History Forum Journal Vol. 18 (2016) pp 54-59.
Calcluth, H., ‘The Barony of Auchinames’, Renfrewshire Local History Forum Journal Vol. 19, 2021, pp 4-12.
Nisbet, A., A System of Heraldry, Vol II, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1804, Appendix p 88 ff , ‘Crawfurds of Auchinames’.
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’). Although late this diary is an invaluable source for a number of properties in Kilbarchan. It includes a ‘Scheme of Rental’ drawn up c. 1690.
MacKenzie, R.D., Kilbarchan – A Parish History, Paisley, 1902; (hereafter ‘MacKenzie’). This, too, is an invaluable source for Kilbarchan. It gives the Poll Tax Records for Kilbarchan in 1695. Chapter XIII (pp 243-265) covers ‘Places and Place Names’. We do not have to agree with all Reverend MacKenzie’s derivations to be grateful to him for preserving so much local history.
Maps
Pont (33)
Gordon (55)
Blaeu (Renfrew)
Roy (PC)
Ainslie (1796)
Thomson(1826)
Castle Semple Estate Plans
An important source for Castle Semple Estate Plans is available via the online National Library of Scotland Digital Map Library. Within this, researchers should navigate to the Estate Maps section and then to Renfrewshire. Under Lochwinnoch parish three estate plans for Castle Semple lands are provided. These give information about many farms in Lochwinnoch parish, as well as some in Kilbarchan parish. In the tables I have coded them as follows:
CSEP = Castle Semple Estate Plan
CSEP(1) = An estate plan probably made up by John Ainslie c. 1782. This comes from Renfrewshire Museums – Shelfmark 2019.095. See Stuart Nisbet’s article in Cairt, Issue 44, (January 2024) for supporting evidence. (Cairt is the Newsletter of the Scottish Maps Forum, published by the National Library of Scotland).
CSEP(2) = Reduced Plan of Castlesemple by Thomas Richardson, 1808.
CSEP(3) = Plan of Castle Semple Estate, 1907 by W. & A.K. Johnston Limited. This comes from Renfrewshire Museums – Shelfmark 941.441 LO PC16017.
There are other copies of CSEP(2) held under RHP3609/1 & 2 in the National Records of Scotland.
The table gives 170½m.
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