- source: Family History Library Catalog
Lochranza is a hamlet of about 200 people at the north end of the Island of Arran, the largest of the islands of Bute. During the summer months a ferry runs from Lochranza to Claonaig on the Kintyre peninsula.
Lochranza is situated at the outlet of Loch Ranza in the parish of Kilbride.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Lochranza.
Research Tips
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- Transcriptions of all the 19th century censuses are available on FreeCen.
- ScotlandsPeople holds indexes and images for all civil births, marriages and deaths, censuses 1841-1911, and for all Old Parish Registers throughout Scotland. It is a pay-per-view site. ScotlandsPeople also holds records of Wills and Testaments and Coats of Arms. Access to this latter part of their website is free.
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- Vision of Britain provides both the topographical Ordnance Survey of Scotland First Series (1856-1887) in black and white, and the Ordnance Survey of Scotland Popular Edition (1928-1945) in colour at a scale of 1:63360, as well as other series of maps covering the whole of the United Kingdom. These maps are wonderful for finding places that have diminished in size over the past 150 years.
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