Easby Abbey. Easby Abbey North Yorkshire. Leyburn North Yorkshire. Leyburn Hall - Leyburn - North Yorkshire - England. Seniors Network - Genealogy _ Scotland and International Sites. Monklands Online -Introduction to Genealogy. An Introduction To Family History or Genealogy The study of Family History Help with finding your Ancestors When you look around at our present comfortable existence it makes you think that, in comparison, our ancestors had quite a hard life.
You may find your ancestors were forced out of their homes during the Highland Clearances (or the Irish equivalent), the Irish Famine, or died during the many epidemics of Cholera, Scarlet Fever, Consumption - even the Plague etc However you will also find stories of happiness and realise that in times of hardship there can be fun and laughter. Look on the web As you're reading this page, then you're already on the web looking for information about local history. Visit your local studies library "When you first become interested in a subject it is natural to find out what has already been written.
Local studies libraries are likely to have a comprehensive collection of books about the locality, including street directories. Website Happy Hunting!! SCT-LKS-SHOTTS-L Archives. SCT-LKS-SHOTTS-L Re: [SCT-LKS-SHOTTS] SCT-LKS-SHOTTS Digest, Vol 1, Issue 4. Historical perspective for Parish of Shotts. A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H.
Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885. Shotts, originally Bertramshotts, a parish on the E border of the Middle Ward of Lanarkshire. It is bounded N by the parish of New Monkland and by Linlithgowshire, NE and E by Linlithgowshire, SE and S by the parish of Cambusnethan, for ½ mile at the SW corner by the parish of Dalziel, and W by the parishes of Bothwell and New Monkland. The boundary is largely natural. The church of Bertramshotts is mentioned in a Bull of Pope Sixtus IV. in 1476, and the name was afterwards applied to the whole parish, but the first part of the name dropped off during the following century. Afore the King in order studeThe stout Laird of Muirhcad,Wi that sam twa hand muckle swordThat Bartram fell'd stark dead.'
Shotts Parish Church. Five hundred years ago Bothwell and Shotts formed one parish which stretched from the Clyde to Linlithgowshire, and from the North to the South Calder.
In this extensive district there were only four places to worship.. .St. Bride’s Collegiate Church Bothwell founded by Archibald, Earl of Douglas surnamed the Grim; a Chapel at Orbiston near Bellshill; another at Chapelhall from which the village took its name and a fourth in the middle of Bothwellmuir at a desert place called St.
Catherine’s. This chapel was founded in the year 1450 and dedicated to St. Catherine of Sienna who was born in 1347. Shortly after the Reformation St. A congregation was formed at Calderhead in 1860, another at Benhar in 1877. a third in Cleland in 1878 and a fourth in Caldercruix in 1893. (from ‘A short history of Sbotts Parish Church’ by Wm. Salsburgh heritage group. Home. Shotts History Group. Monklands Online - Story of Shotts. Shotts - the Shotts A Village Built on Coal and Iron with thanks to Shotts History Group SHOTTS HISTORY GROUP - web site Shotts is situated half way between Glasgow and Edinburgh and was reputedly called after the legendary giant "BERTRAM de SHOTTS".
Although adjacent to many of the traditional coach roads of bye-gone days it originally consisted of five villages – Dykehead,Calderside, Stane, Springhill and Torbothie with the main interest then around the works area of Calderside. Allanton, Hartwood and Eastfield are now regarded as being "Shotts". Shotts really "took off" when the Iron Works started in 1802, ironstone having been mined on Muldron moor near Shotts. Pig iron was made and distributed world-wide. Shotts. Shotts was known for its mining and ironworks.
In the years leading up to World War II there were 22 coal mines in the area, but the last of these (Northfield Colliery) closed in the 1960s. Timeline of Glasgow history. Salsburgh. Coordinates: Salsburgh is a semi rural former coal mining village in greenbelt farmland within the district of North Lanarkshire, Scotland, the closest major town to the village is Shotts 3 miles to the South East and Airdrie, North Lanarkshire 6 miles to the North West.
Salsburgh is perhaps best known for the Kirk O' Shott's Church (affectionately known as "The M8 Church") which sits on a hillock and is fairly visible as visitors enter the village from the east on the B7066 Whitburn to Newhouse road. There has been a community in the area for over 600 years, although the present village dates back to 1729. At that time only a row of four houses existed, named "Muirhall, Girdhimstrait, Merchanthall and Craighead". Craighead was home to a Mr. Kirk O' Shott's (Shottskirk) Public / Primary School[edit] Kirk O' Shott's (Shottskirk) Parish Church[edit] LINKS.