Anyone know anything about Eaglesham?

[Hibee]

The Swan is at 23 Polnoon Street (which has houses on only one side), so number 30 would be 7 houses away, up the hill.

Hibee

[steiner]

Thanks for the information about John Currie and the Swan Inn.

Andy

[jennyblain]

I'll now be humming 'The Soor Mulk Cairt' all this evening. My father used to sing it, with my mother playing piano for it, so it's one of the songs I grew up with..

There's another version of the words at http://www.scotsindependent.org/feature ... g/soor.htm . I'd been going to post the 'planned village' link but see Anne already did so! The second line from this version reads better and is what I remember being sung.

Jenny

[David Hamilton]

Hi David and a warm welcome to TalkingScot!

Thanks for sharing the diary entry with all of us...what a treasure to have! Hopefully one of the posters who are familiar with the Eaglesham area will be able to come up with something on Lochlin for you.

Regards,
Anne H

Hello Anne,
Thanks for the welcome. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Regards, David.

[Currie]

Hello David,

If Lochlin is one of the words that are hard to decipher perhaps you could scan part of the document and place it on PhotoBucket or something similar so that others can view the handwriting and give an opinion as to what it is.

There’s a waterfall 3km from Eaglesham called Enoch Linn. Maybe Lochlin, or whatever, was named after part of the geography. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/110364

Seems there was a mill there at some time. http://www.google.com.au/webhp?complete ... f39b46a337

This Scottish dictionary from 1867 has definitions for Lin etc on page 330. You could check for other possibilities. Whatever it is perhaps it would have to make some sort of sense, maybe. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=y_s ... J&pg=PA330

All the best,
Alan

[kennethm]

Hi All,

Renumbering took place sometime later (after 1831) in the 19th century so have to be careful when looking at the location of properties in Polnoon and Montgomery Streets. Hibee is certainly right about the Swan Inn being at what is now 23 Polnoon Street. The Swan Inn was tacked as a two storey house in 1774 and later converted to an inn in 1832. John Currie is mentioned on page 697 of Pigot & Co.'s National and Commercial Directory of Scotland (1837) as being an innkeeper/vitner in Eaglesham.

Regards,

Kenneth

[kennethm]

Hi All,

I haven't heard of Lochlin but from what David says, it sounds as if it's a property located at Townhead of Eaglesham in either Polnoon or Montgomery Street.

Regards,

Kenneth

[kennethm]

A great source for finding out information about ancestors as well as the history and agricultural development of the farms of Eaglesham is from the archaeological farm surveys produced by the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists (Glasgow University).

ACFA have surveyed the majority of Eaglesham farms and produced a series of reports that contain a wealth of information. The reports contain asstracts from enumerators' schedules, valuation rolls, birth/baptismal records, farm horse tax and poll tax records (1695).

I'm not sure how widely available the reports are; they are available in Glasgow University Library and probably other academic libraries too. Copies can be purchased from ACFA too at:

http://www.acfabaseline.info/

There are reports from other areas of Scotland too.

Regards,

Kenneth

Edit: p.s. There's a list of the surveys on the ACFA web-site.

[steiner]

Thank youfor the picture and info Kenneth.

Andy

[Alan SHARP]

A great source for finding out information about ancestors as well as the history and agricultural development of the farms of Eagelsham is from the archaeological farm surveys produced by the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists (Glasgow University)...........................................................

There are reports from other areas of Scotland too.

Regards,

Kenneth

Hi Kenneth.

Is Cathcart included in one of those areas, or are the reports about areas that are still farmed ?

Alan SHARP.