Monklands Memories - Airdrie & Coatbridge areas

Some links for Lanarkshire resources to aid research:

Courtesy of Monical  Roots Chat
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,510660.0.html

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Archives

• North Lanarkshire Council Archives has moved, see new link - http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=15875
• South Lanarkshire Council Archives - www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/427/libraries_and_archives
• The City Archives are also housed in the Mitchell Library.
• Fascinating films of what is available at the Mitchell Library for family research - great to view if you are planning a visit. Have a look at this post www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,522720.0.html
  which includes the links to the six part series of films.
• Glasgow Archdiocese (Roman Catholic) Archives - www.rcag.org.uk/history_intro.htm
• Glasgow University Library and Archives - www.gla.ac.uk/about/librariesmuseumsandarchives/
• The Strathclyde Area Genealogy Centre (previously referred to as Park Circus) -
•  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,520757.0.html
  and
  http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/BirthDeathMarriage_
  Citizenship/GenealogyCentre/
• Motherwell Heritage Centre http://motherwellheritage.freeservers.com/

Census
 

• Freecen http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ has now excellent coverage of the earlier censuses. 99.2% coverage of the 1841 census and just over 45% of 1851 census (as at Jan 2011 - check here for updates www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html). These are transcripts compiled by volunteers. Original images for the 1841 - 1911 censuses are only available from the pay to view site www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
   

Family History Groups

 
• Lanarkshire Family History Society - www.lanarkshirefhs.org.uk
•  Glasgow&West of Scotland Family History Society -www.gwsfhs.org.uk
• The Shotts History Group - www.shottshistorygroup.co.uk/ourhistory.htm
• The Pollockshaws Heritage Group - www.pollokshaws.org.uk/index.asp
• Stonehouse Heritage Group - www.stonehouseheritage.co.uk/

History and General information
 

• www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/LKS/
• The Glasgow Story www.theglasgowstory.com/index.php
• The Glasgow Guide www.glasgowguide.co.uk/info-tya.html
  Amongst other useful info, this site also includes a list on name changes to streets in Glasgow before 1940,
  see www.glasgowguide.co.uk/info-streetschanged1.html
• The origin and history of Glasgow streets - http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/minstr/minstrindexes.html
• Searchable on-line database of the 1913-14 valuation rolls - www.theglasgowstory.com/valindex.php

Images and Photograph Archives and Collections
 

• Virtual Mitchell, a vast collection of photographs at the Mitchell Library - www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell/
• The Glasgow Digital Library - http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
• The changing face of Glasgow through photographs (particularly strong for 1960-70s) - http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/
• See also the collection of images on the Glasgow Story site www.theglasgowstory.com/index.php
• National Library of Scotland - Scottish Screen Archives - Lanarkshire http://ssa.nls.uk/search.cfm?search_mode=Browse&sid=03.01&location=26
• National Library of Scotland - Scottish Screen Archives - Glasgow http://ssa.nls.uk/search.cfm?search_mode=Browse&sid=03.01&location=18
• Collection of photos around the Glasgow area, specially the East End of Glasgow - www.glesga.ukpals.com/index.htm
• The Geograph Britain and Ireland project has a growing collection of photographs - www.geograph.org.uk
• The Annan Collection of old Glasgow photographs - www.annanphotographs.co.uk/index.html

Maps
 

• Map of parishes within the county - www.scotlandsfamily.com/parish-map-lanark.htm
• Map of Scottish counties www.scotlandsfamily.com/county-map.htm
• National Library of Scotland collection - http://maps.nls.uk/towns/index.html
• 1935 Glasgow Street Plan - http://www.artus-familyhistory.com/Glasgow%201935/Glasgow%201935.html
• 1874 - 1900 map of Glasgow Registration Districts - useful guide to areas/names/locations - www.douglasbrown.co.uk/glw74map.html

Mining in Lanarkshire
 

• Great resource for the research into Scottish mining and people - www.scottishmining.co.uk/index.html
• The Lanarkshire Mining Industry - a history - www.sorbie.net/lanarkshire_mining_industry.htm
• Blantyre 'blast from the past' www.blantyrepast.com/index.html
• The Coal Mining History Resource Centre - www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/scotland/index.html
• The Scottish Mining Museum - www.scottishminingmuseum.com
• Scotland's Shale Oil Industry www.scottishshale.co.uk/index.html

Miscellaneous
 

• Post Office Directories for the general Glasgow area - www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/index.cfm?place=Glasgow
• 1927 Glasgow Post Office Directory - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glasgow/index-glas.htm
• Clydesbridge Steel Works History - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clydebridge/index.html
• A site for Old Monkland - www.monklands.co.uk
• The Village of Bunkle - www.bonkle.org.uk/bonkle/index.html#bonkle
• Jordanhill Local History - www.wsmclean.com/
• The Glasgow Police Museum - http://gphs1800.tripod.com/Directory.html Surviving police personnel records where the successor force was Strathclyde Police are held at Glasgow City Archives, The Mitchell Library.
• Historic Hospital Admissions Records Project (HHARP) includes the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. Covering the period 1883 (when the hospital first opened) to 1903, the database offers insight into the health of the poor child, in a City like Glasgow - http://hharp.org/

Newspapers
 

• The main free Glasgow newspaper archives available currently to view on line are for the Glasgow Herald, issues range from 1800 - 1990. More issues continue to be added. The only problem is that you cannot search editions by key words, so you have to know what dates to check before starting a search. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC -
  simply add year for search to see what issues may be available (insert a year in 'Date' box).
• Check also at local reference libraries to see what newspaper archives they may hold and for what period.
• The Evening Times Roll of Honour: During WW1, the Evening Times newspaper printed short biographies of service personnel who were reported lost, missing or wounded. Two searchable databases available. The date the entry appeared in the Evening Times is also included to let you search the newspaper archives at the Mitchell Library for full details -

Spare BMD certificates
 

• An ongoing thread on the Lanarkshire board where RootsChat members have included details of BMD certifcates that they have, in case this information is of use to another researcher. See main post here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,207841.0.html
• Also worth checking here on the Unwanted FH Documents & Artefacts
  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,153.0.html
• A further, external site, The Scotland BDM Exchange www.sctbdm.com/index.php

Workhouses
 

• Workhouse Locations, Scottish Poorhouses, Lanarkshire. There are eleven locations included for the Lanarkshire area, with the links located on the left hand side www.workhouses.org.uk/
   

Burials and Monumental Inscriptions

The Lanarkshire area has a large number of cemeteries. There is always a lot of interest on the Lanarkshire board regarding burial information and whether any monumental (gravestone) inscriptions may be available for an ancestor. This post tries to pull together the large number of posts throughout the Board and includes a link to that specific post here on RootsChat for a particular cemetery. Also included here are some external links that are available to search. Please be aware that some external sites make a charge for more detailed information and/or photographs, though basic information may be free. All information or material in this list contributed by RootsChat members is offered voluntarily and at no cost.

Lists of some of the cemeteries for Lanarkshire are available here:
 

• Glasgow -
   www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/LKS/cemeteries-gla.shtml
  See also
• North Lanarkshire -
   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/LKS/cemeteries-nl.shtml
  See also
  www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=7348
• South Lanarkshire -
  www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/directory/16/cemeteries

RootsChat posts:
 

• Bent Cemetery Hamilton - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,492693.0.html
• Bothwell Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,493799.0.html
• Cambuslang Parish Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,511423.0.html
• Cambusnethan Cemetery - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,183738.0.html
  More detailed post on headstones here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,540945.0.html
  and
  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,519016.0.html
  and
  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,566572.0.html
• Carmichael Cemetery - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,487175.0.html
• Carnwath Graveyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,386779.0.html
• Carstairs Village Churchyard & Cemetery - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,471260.0.html
• Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn Cemeteries - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,279673.0.html
• Chapelton Old Kirkyard, Glassford - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,446114.0.html
  also further post here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,519018.0.html
• Crawfordjohn Death Records - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,253121.0.html
• Dalbeth Cemetery has a number of posts such as www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,352095.0.html
  and
  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,324578.0.html
  and
  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,495487.0.html
• Dalserf Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,514192.0.html
• Gartsherrie Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,273248.0.html
• Glassford Old Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,493430.0.html
• Globe Cemetery - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,210686.0.html
• Hamilton Old Parish Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,509527.0.html
• High Blantyre Cemetery - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,513721.0.html
• High Blantyre Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,493577.0.html
• Kirkhill Burial Ground Cambusnethan - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,530309.0.html
• Libberton Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,490399.0.html
• Old Kirkyard Stonehouse - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,445747.0.html
• Pettinain Churchyard - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,481753.0.html
• St Brides Churchyard Douglas - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,508090.0.html
• St John's Kirkyard Symington - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,509851.0.html
• St Joseph's Cemetery Airdrie - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,489688.0.html
  and
  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,555084.0.html
• St Kentigern's Cemetery - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,512075.0.html
• St Lukes Churchyard Carluke - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,486796.0.html
• Strathaven Cemetery (old) - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,490817.0.html
• Wellwynd Churchyard, Airdrie - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,522589.0.html

Published Monumental Inscriptions (free to view on-line):
 

• Maryhill Parish Church - www.maryhillparishchurch.org.uk/history/gravestone-inscriptions.pdf
• St Patrick Churchyard Motherwell - www.interment.net/data/scotland/no_lanark/stpat/index.htm
• Southern Necropolis - www.southernnecropolis.com
• Strathaven Cemetery - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barrie/

External Sites:
 

• www.memento-mori.co.uk
• www.findagraveinscotland.com
• www.deceasedonline.com

 

Check individual local history societies' publication lists for details of booklets and CDs available to purchase directly from them.

Although not available to view or search on-line, the Mitchell Library is a great source for cemetery information including burials and MIs where available. Also worth checking directly with the offices of the North and South Lanarkshire Archives to see what records they may hold.