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Genealogy resources
by
Alistair McIntyre
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last modified
Aug 28, 2010 07:08 PM
This bibliography compiled by Alistair McIntyre is primarily aimed at those interested in researching local history or genealogy.
This bibliography compiled by Alistair McIntyre is primarily aimed at those interested in researching local history or genealogy. Please contact us if you have a suggestions for additional titles.
Location of sources
While many originals of primary sources are kept at New Register House, Edinburgh, copies of much of the primary material and some of the secondary sources are kept at the following libraries:
- Mitchell Library and Strathclyde Archives
- North Street, Glasgow G3
Tel: 0141 287 2999
Archives: 0141 287 2913. - Dumbarton Library
- Strathleven Place
Dumbarton
Tel: 01389 763 129
Dumbarton/Lennox Herald; OPR's; some sasines and valuation rolls; monumental inscriptions.
Archival summary.
- Helensburgh Library
- John Street (at W.King Street)
Helensburgh
Tel: 01436 674 626
Helensburgh and Gareloch Times; Helensburgh Advertiser; Helensburgh Directories; local books. - Registry Offices for records of births, marriages and deaths
- Local offices at Helensburgh, Clynder. Fees payable for searches.
Hold records post 1854.
Online resource for first two statistical accounts. Also includes references to some electronic library catalogues, bookshops and publishers, museums and galleries
Primary sources
- Old Statistical Account of Scotland
- Dunbartonshire: Rosneath Parish (1790).
- New Statistical Account of Scotland
- Dunbartonshire: Rosneath Parish (1839)
- Third Statistical Account of Scotland
- Dunbartonshire: Rosneath Parish (1950, rev.1955).
- Fowler's Directory of Renfrewshire (1834)
- Covers Dunbartonshire.
- Helensburgh Directories(1867-1939)
- Covers Rosneath Peninsula.
- Dumbarton Herald (later Lennox Herald, 1852-present)
- Local newspaper.
- Helensburgh and Gareloch Times (1880-1980)
- Local newspaper.
- Helensburgh Advertiser (1957-present)
- Local newspaper.
- Old Parish Registers: Rosneath Parish (1722-1854)
- Family history [established Church only]. Available as microfilm.
- Census Returns (1841-1891)
- Family history. Microfilms.
- Registry of Births Marriages and Deaths (1854-present)
- Family history. Microfilms.
- Monumental inscriptions: Dunbartonshire
- Family history.
- Monumental inscriptions: Dunbartonshire
- Family history.
- Rosneath Churchyard (inscriptions)
- Family history. Civil Service Retirement Fellowship Publication.
- Valuation Rolls: Dunbartonshire (1854-present)
- Family history and buildings.
- Register of Sasines: Dunbartonshire
- Family history and buildings
- Old maps and surveys (e.g. Blau's Atlas, 1654)
- Settlement patterns and buildings
Secondary sources
- History of Dunbartonshire (1860)
- Joseph Irving
- History of Dunbartonshire (1924)
- John Irving
- Place Names of Dunbartonshire (1928)
- John Irving
- Short History of Dunbartonshire (1962)
- I.M.M. MacPhail
- Nonogenarian's Reminiscences of Garelochside and Helensburgh (1883)
- Donald Macleod
- Rosneath Past and Present (1893)
- W.C. Maughan
Available on the Internet Archive - Annals of Garelochside (1897)
- W.C. Maughan
These books are by far and away the best books on the Rosneath area.
Available on the Internet Archive - Helensburgh and Garelochside in Old Pictures (1980)
- Brian D. Osborne
- Clyde Piers (1982)
- Ian McCrorie and Joy Monteith
- Clyde Submarine Base (1999)
- Keith Hall
- United States Navy Base Two: Americans at Rosneath 1941-45
- Dennis Royal. Douglas Press, 1 Duiletter, Glendaruel, Colintraive, Argyll PA22 3AE, June 2000. £6.99. ISBN: 1 902831 802
See Book Review - Old Garelochhead & The Rosneath Peninsula
- Keith Hall. Stenlake Publishing, Ochiltree Sawmill, The Lade, Ochiltree, Ayrshire KA18 2NX, 1999. ISBN 1 84033 060 0
