Port Glasgow Text Summary

Port Glasgow

 

Principal Sources

 

OSA Vol 5 No 39 1793

 

The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1845:

Port-Glasgow pp 62-74, dated 1836

 

RMS II (1612) 1484-5, (2061) 1491, (2214) 1494 on original of 1492

RMS XI (1126) 1668

 

Robertson, G., A general description of the Shire of Renfrew …, Paisley, 1818 (Hereafter ‘Robertson(1818)’).

 

Maps

Pont (33)

Gordon (55)

Blaeu (Renfrew)

Roy (PC & FC)

Ainslie (1796)

Thomson(1826)

 

Port Glasgow is a very small parish. According to the report in the Old Statistical Account it was formerly part of Kilmacolm and separated in 1695. It consisted of 7 farms.

 

Robertson(1818) gives the following names within the Table of Property (p 410):

Easter & Wester Devols

Easter Douglahill

Wester Douglahill

Dubbs

Braehead

Newark Gardens (site of the Town & Feus etc)

 

The total value of this parish remains very uncertain. I doubt it was more than 15 merklands in total.