Place:Lanarkshire, Scotland

NameLanarkshire
Alt namesLanarksource: Family History Library Catalog
Siorrachd Lannraigsource: Wikipedia
Lanarkssource: abbreviation
LKSsource: Chapman code (GENUKI)
TypeTraditional county
Located inScotland     ( - 1975)
See alsoNorth Lanarkshire, Scotlandunitary council area
South Lanarkshire, Scotlandunitary council area
Contained Places
Ancient parish
Monklands
Former community
New Lanark ( 1786 - 1975 )
Former village
Greenrigg
Hamlet
Abington ( - 1975 )
Drumclog ( - 1975 )
Dungavel ( - 1975 )
Goodockhill ( - 1975 )
Thankerton ( - 1975 )
Inhabited place
Airdrie ( - 1975 )
Allanton ( - 1975 )
Bellshill ( - 1975 )
Biggar (town) ( - 1975 )
Bishopbriggs ( - 1975 )
Blackwood ( - 1975 )
Bothwell (town) ( - 1975 )
Burnbank ( 1500 - )
Calderbank ( - 1975 )
Carfin ( - 1975 )
Carluke (town) ( - 1975 )
Chapelhall ( - 1975 )
Coalburn ( - 1975 )
Coatbridge ( - 1975 )
Craigneuk
Dolphinton (village) ( - 1975 )
Douglas (village) ( - 1975 )
Dykehead ( - 1975 )
East Kilbride (town) ( - 1975 )
Forth ( - 1975 )
Glasgow ( 1609 - 1975 )
Hamilton (town) ( - 1975 )
Harthill ( - 1975 )
Holytown ( - 1975 )
Kirkmuirhill ( - 1975 )
Lanark (town) ( - 1975 )
Larkhall ( - 1975 )
Leadhills ( - 1975 )
Lesmahagow (village) ( - 1975 )
Maxwelton ( - 1975 )
Motherwell ( - 1975 )
New Stevenston
Newmains ( - 1975 )
Rigside ( - 1975 )
Rutherglen ( 1698 - 1975 )
Shotts (village) ( - 1975 )
Stonehouse (village) ( - 1975 )
Strathaven ( - 1975 )
Uddingston ( - 1975 )
Uddington ( - 1975 )
Wishaw ( - 1975 )
Locality
Auchinairn ( - 1975 )
Baillieston ( - 1975 )
Tollcross ( - 1912 )
Parish
Avondale ( 1698 - 1975 )
Biggar ( 1730 - 1975 )
Blantyre ( 1677 - 1975 )
Bothwell ( 1671 - 1975 )
Cadder ( 1662 - 1975 )
Cambuslang ( 1657 - 1975 )
Cambusnethan ( 1634 - 1884 )
Carluke ( 1690 - 1975 )
Carmichael ( 1694 - 1975 )
Carmunnock ( 1891 - 1975 )
Carnwath ( 1705 - 1975 )
Carstairs ( 1672 - 1975 )
Covington ( - 1975 )
Crawford ( 1698 - 1975 )
Crawfordjohn ( 1693 - 1975 )
Culter ( 1700 - 1975 )
Dalserf ( 1738 - 1975 )
Dalziel ( 1648 - 1975 )
Dolphinton ( 1717 - 1975 )
Douglas ( 1691 - 1975 )
Dunsyre ( 1687 - 1975 )
East Kilbride ( 1688 - 1975 )
Glasgow ( 1609 - 1975 )
Glassford ( - 1975 )
Hamilton ( 1645 - 1975 )
Lanark ( 1646 - 1975 )
Lesmahagow ( 1692 - 1975 )
Libberton ( 1717 - 1975 )
New Monkland ( 1693 - 1975 )
Old Monkland ( 1695 - 1975 )
Pettinain ( 1689 - 1975 )
Rutherglen ( 1698 - 1975 )
Shotts ( 1705 - 1975 )
Stonehouse ( 1696 - 1975 )
Symington ( 1692 - 1975 )
Walston ( 1679 - 1975 )
Wandell and Lamington ( 1645 - 1975 )
Wiston and Roberton ( 1772 - 1975 )
Suburb
Castlemilk ( - 1975 )
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark, is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland.

Lanarkshire is the most populous county in Scotland, as it contains most of Glasgow and the surrounding conurbation. In earlier times it had considerably greater boundaries, including neighbouring Renfrewshire until 1402. Lanarkshire is bounded to the north by the counties of Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire (this boundary is split into two sections owing to Dunbartonshire's Cumbernauld exclave), to the northeast by West Lothian and Mid Lothian, to the east by Peeblesshire, to the south by Dumfriesshire, and to the west by Ayrshire and Renfrewshire.

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In 1975 the counties of Scotland ceased their function and were replaced by "regions", each of which covered a great deal more territory. Local government was carried out by "districts" of these regions. Lanarkshire and parts of other counties surrounding it became Strathclyde. In 1996 the regional form of government was made defunct, and Scotland was redrawn into a number of unitary councils. Pre-1975 Lanarkshire is, for the most part, now the forebear of three unitary authorities: the City of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.

Research Tips

  • official civil (from 1855) and parish registers (from when first produced) for births, marriages and deaths for all of Scotland
  • original census images for all years available (1841-1911).
  • collections of wills and testaments and
  • property tax listings
  • an extensive collection of local maps
  • kirk session records for individual parishes (added in 2021 and not yet complete).

This site is extremely easy to use. There are charges for parish register entries, collections of wills, and census listings (the 1881 census is free to view, also on Ancestry and FindMyPast). The charges are reasonable and payable by online transfer. Viewing the kirk session records is free, but a charge will be made for a copy.

  • The National Library of Scotland have an online map collection of historic and modern day maps which can zoom in on a specific farmhouse or street in a town. Their collection also includes London and some counties of southeast England.
  • Gazetteer for Scotland contains an article for each parish from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland by F. H. Groome, (published 1882-4) and short details about each parish today including names of small settlements within a parish.
  • The FamilySearch Wiki explains a great many legal terms only found in Scotland and provides a gazetteer for genealogists for each parish across the county. It reviews the availablility of parish registers.
  • GENUKI Scotland which provides for each Scottish parish (indexed by county), amongst other data, complete quotations from A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1851) by Samuel Lewis, John Bartholomew's A Gazetteer of the British Isles (1877), and possibly other gazetteers from individual counties and regions. It is worth reviewing one of its county pages to see what is available online or in print from local archive providers. Each county page has a "Where in ---shire is .... ? section--very helpful in pinpointing the small places below parish level.
  • A list of Burial Grounds in Scotland is now available on the website of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies.
  • The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online provides access to digitised and fully searchable versions of both the Old Statistical Account (1791-99) and the New Statistical Account (1834-45). These uniquely rich and detailed parish reports, usually written by local Church of Scotland ministers, detail social conditions in Scotland and are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Scottish history.
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