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Guidelines

Submissions

 

If you would like to add your research interests to the Lanark Surname List, please read through these short guidelines first.

Each entry in the list contains the following information (extra comments are given in brackets):

Name

  • Ainslie

  • Robertson

  • Wil(l)son (indicates Wilson or Willson spelling)

  • If a name has radically different forms e.g. Ainslie/Eddislaw, please submit a separate entry for each one.

 

Dates of interest

  • 1700 - 1900

  • Pre 1900 (means earlier than 1900)

  • Post 1700 (means after 1700)

  • All dates

 

Places of interest

  • Grangehall

  • Libberton and surrounding area

  • Culter/Hamilton/Wiston (multiple parishes)

  • Possilpark, Glasgow (an estate or village within a parish)

  • Leadhills > Melrose,ROX (migration out of Lanarkshire)

  • Stow,MLN > Dolphington (migration into Lanarkshire)

  • Barony > AUS (migration to another country)

  • All places (in Lanark)


Please use the Chapman codes for other counties and the three letter ISO codes for other countries. If a place is in Lanarkshire then there is no need to specify this with a code. Note that the list is only intended for surnames which you are researching in Lanarkshire. For families that had no link with the county, please look to other lists.

 


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