The 14 ‘Davachtis’ in Lennox This table allows us to add other evidence showing that the 14 davachtis of 1223 were in fact the same as arachors, carucates or £20 lands. 13 December 1223 Modern Name Parish Extent Date…
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£5 lands in Lennox
Table of £5 lands (£5) = derived or calculated sum; italicised = more doubtful; Ratio = carucates to merklands, so 1:30 means 1 carucate to 30m (£20). CCEW= Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown. GS, Strathendrick = Guthrie Smith,…
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£10 lands in Lennox
Table of £10 lands GS, Strathblane = Guthrie Smith, Strathblane. This table lists the £10 lands in Lennox. I think they all represent half-arachor or half-carucate (or half-davach?) units. However the only reason I have not included them with…
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Lennox General Resources
Lennox: General Resources There are a number of general resources for the Lennox area which I have listed here rather than repeat them many times under individual parishes. Nimmo, Stirlingshire, 1777 (particularly the map based on Edgar’s…
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Kilmaronock Teinds
Teinds in 1528 – From Register of Cambuskenneth pp 218-222 No 158 This is useful in allowing us to see the constituent farms of the parish in 1528 and compare their teinds against their nominal value. Name Modern Name Bolls…
Posted in Kilmaronock
Galbraith Estate
Galbraith holdings in the Lennox. We can glimpse the enormous Galbraith estate in the Lennox by the properties held by the Douglas, Logan and Hamilton families who married Galbraith heiresses. This table only deals with the lands held by…
Posted in New or East Kilpatrick
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