Scotland Genealogy: Renfrewshire
Census & County Records
RENFREWSHIRE, maritime Co., in SW. of Scotland, bounded N.
by the river
Clyde and Dumbartonshire, E. by Lanarkshire, S. by Ayrshire,
and W. by the Firth of
Clyde; greatest length, NW. and SE., 31 miles; greatest breadth,
NE. and SW., 14
miles; area, 156,785 ac., pop. 263,374. The principal
streams, all flowing to the Clyde, are the Black Cart, the
White Cart, and the
Gryfe. The surface in the S. and SW. parts of the Co. is hilly,
and somewhat bleak
and moorish; it thence undulates to the banks of the Clyde,
along which there is
some rich and low lying land. Coal, ironstone, and limestone
are abundant; copper ore occurs near Gourock and Lochwinnoch.
The principal
industries, besides mining and agriculture, are the mfr. of
cotton and thread,
sugar-refining, and shipbuilding. The Co. comprises 20 pars.
with parts of 4 others,
the parl. and police burghs of Greenock (1 member), Paisley
(1 member), and Port Glasgow and Renfrew (part of the Kilmarnock
Burghs), the police
burghs (suburban of Glasgow) of Crosshill, Kinning Park, Pollokshields,
and
Pollokshields East, and the police burghs of Gourock, Johnstone,
and Pollokshaws.
For parliamentary purposes the Co. is divided into 2 divisions
-viz., Eastern and Western -each returning 1 member. The representation
of the
county was increased from 1 to 2 members in 1885.
[Bartholemew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]
Renfrewshire,
Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
A collection of parish and probate records in Scotland, from
the 1500s to the 1800s.
A
history of the county of Renfrew
A history of the county of Renfrew from the earliest times
The
history of the shire of Renfrew & the royal house of Stewart
The history of the shire of Renfrew : containing a genealogical
history of the royal house of Stewart, with a genealogical
acco
Archaeological
and historical collections of Lochwinnoch, Renfrew.
Archaeological and historical collections relating to the
county of Renfrew, parish of Lochwinnoch
Renfrewshire Parish
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