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Lanarkshire Towns & Parishes |
a village and a parish on the Renfrewshire border of Lanarkshire. The village ..... is a pleasant little place, inhabited chiefly by hand-loom weavers, with several shops, and a post office ..... . Population (1861) 360, (1871) 376, (1881) 486.
Castlemilk House ..... is a stately old mansion. with massive battlemented walls; it's owner, Capt. Jas. Stirling Stewart (b.1825), a lineal descendent of the royal house, holds 2137 acres in the shire, .... . Queen Mary is said to have lodged at Castlemilk the night before the battle of Langside (13 May 1568).
Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland 1884
The Museum of Scottish Country Life is located at Kittochside.
Kirk Life in Old Carmunnock (1177 to mid-19th
century)
by Henry Hutchison
published by the Kirk Session of Carmunnock Parish Church 1978
Carmunnock Church 1854-1947
by Dr Henry Hutchison (1979)
The Incomplete History of Castlemilk
by the Castlemilk Local History Group with Catriona Burness
published by the Workers Educational Association 1993
ISBN 1 870140 15 X
available from Alison Miller, WEA, St. Margaret Mary's Secondary School, 65
Dougrie Road, Castlemilk, GLASGOW G45 9NJ - telephone 0141-634 0292
(international +44 141 634 0292)
The Story of Carmunnock
by Mrs B W H Herbert, Carmunnock Preservation Society
originally published 1989
revised and updated 2000
printed by John McCormick & Co. Ltd December 2000
Pictorial Record of Carmunnock
complied and produced by Douglas Low M.MP.A.
published by the 1977 Silver Jubilee Committee
The Parish church is surrounded by the old village graveyard. Within the structure of the church is a vault where some members of the Stirling-Stewart family (Lairds of Castlemilk) are buried.
On the grapevine, we heard that a booklet had been prepared documenting the burials in this graveyard; we are not, however, aware that this document has received any wide publication. We are given to understand that the burials records are not comprehensive and that many of the old headstones have vanished over the decades, with the evidence of who is buried there probably lost for ever.
More recent burials will have been at Netherton Cemetery and some very recent ones at Phillipshill Cemetery. Cremations take place at the Linn Crematorium.
Dates of Old Parish Registers
b.1654-1854
m.1653-1854
d.1783-1790
Carmunnock is in the presbytery of Glasgow and synod of Glasgow and Ayr ..... . The parish Church, standing in the middle of the village, was built in 1767, and contains 470 sittings.
Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland 1884
For well documented histories of Carmunnock church see bibliography above.
The parish church is surrounded by the old village graveyard.
The church windows include some of the finest examples of stained glass by the Glasgow artist Norman M. MacDougall
See Glasgow
Based on pages created by Robert Dixon.