Although it is likely that the church continued to serve the village through the early medieval period, It is from the fourteenth century that records tell us of Eaglesham Church as a prebend or kind of extension charge, of Glasgow Cathedral, under the patronage of the Montgomerie family who had arrived in Britain in the wake of the Norman Conquest and had been given the lands of Eaglesham.
Thus began the system of patronage whereby the local lord provided the building for worship and had the right to appoint to the post of rector or minister no vacancy committee then! This was to be a source of great contention in Eaglesham and across the national church in later centuries, leading to numerous secessions.
On the rear wall of the Church, downstairs, the succession of ministers from is shown. The Church was relatively untouched by the Reformation and became one of the furthest -flung charges of Glasgow Presbytery. And so it has remained. Following the signing of the National Covenant in the seventeenth century, and the Government's attempts to establish an Episcopal system in Scotland, the church in Eaglesham was close to the most intense conflict of the Covenanting times and graves of two martyrs Gabriel Thomson and Robert Lockhart can be seen in the Kirkyard.
Even in the more moderate times of the eighteenth century the congregation in Eaglesham remained steadfast to its Presbyterian traditions and was not always inclined to agree with its patron. The congregation was largely drawn from the neighboring county of Ayrshire, and at the redistribution of congregations in , it was apportioned to the Presbytery of Paisley.
At the call of a new minister in , the membership was listed as 52 with 40 adherents. The congregation was dissolved in following the Union.
The property was later sold. Couper, pub. FHL K2c. Source includes a list of ministers. Government or civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths also called statutory records began on January 1, in Scotland. Each parish has a registrar's office and large cities have several. The records are created by the registrars and copies are sent to the General Register Office in Edinburgh.
Annual indexes are then created for the records for the whole country. See the article on Scotland Civil Registration for more information and to access the records.
Eaglesham was under the probate jurisdiction of the Commissary Court of Glasgow until , and since then has been under the Sheriff's Court of Paisley. Probate records for are indexed online at www. You may then purchase a copy of the document or, if the document is before , it will be on microfilm at the Family History Library.
To find the microfilm numbers, search in the library catalog for the 'Place-names' of Renfrew and the subject of 'Probate records. The library also has some post probate records for Renfrew.
Read more about Scotland Probate Records. Return to the Renfrewshire parish list. Family History Library. Memories Overview Gallery People Find. Sign in Create Account. Family Tree. From FamilySearch Wiki. Most of the 18th century buildings including beautiful houses; churches; Polnoon Lodge, a former hunting lodge of the Earls of Eglinton and former 19th century coaching house, the Eglinton Arms Hotel survive to this day.
Origin of the name Eaglesham. It is found on its own, in names such as Eccles on the Tweed, as well as in combination with other elements, such as Eccleston and Ecclesfield in England. It was also a Pictish word, and is found, often much changed, in names such as Clashbennie by Errol Ecclesdouenanin x ; Egclisbanyn The nearest eccles-name to Eaglesham is the Brittonic name for Carluke, namely Eglismalesok This therefore takes us back beyond the time of the Northumbrian occupation, and indicates an important place of Christian worship here probably going back to the 7th century or even earlier.
The Reverend Alexander Dobin writing in The Statistical Account of Scotland, suggested that one of the woods in the Parish was much frequented by eagles. However fifty years later his successor, Rev. William Colville was unimpressed by his predecessor's explanation and considered the statement as 'utterly unfounded and evidently proceeds on a vulgar mistake' since 'its [the golden eagle] habits of resort are not lowland woods, but remote mountainous districts'.
This didn't stop the villagers however from adopting the eagle as an emblem which was used to adorn the weather vane atop the parish church steeple or appearing on the Feuars' Association flag. Cup mark carvings found most notably at the Carlin Crags, Brownmuir, East Revoch and Comrigs were investigated by a team from the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists in as part of Scotland's Rock Art Project and identified as being natural occlusions.
Polnoon Lodge, Eaglesham, containing 3 public rooms, 5 bed rooms , bath room, kitchen and. The house is lighted with gas, and has an abundant supply of.
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