GARTSHORE, John in Middle Blairlin (DNA Linked) ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

   Another name for John was GARTSHOR, John.¹⁰

  General Notes:

Old Parish Registers
Cumbernauld parish Dunbartonshire
Baptisms

"(online image - manuscript eroded on left side)
May 11. 1690. John Gartshore son law^ll. to John gartshore and Eliz^h. having a testimony from East monkland (manuscript torn -was?) baptized" ³

  Research Notes:

BLAIRLIN

Also Blairlyne: it appears as such in Blaeu's map, based on Pont's original map, entitled "Glasgow and the county of Lanark".
The usual spelling is Blairlinn. Blairlinn consisted of three farmsteadings: Wester, Easter and Mid-Blairlinn. They sat to the south of the Luggie Water, a stream that flowed from Cumbernauld through Waterside to the centre of Kirkintilloch and into the River Kelvin. Today Blairlinn is better known as an industrial estate, developed from Mid-Blairlinn, in the southern part of the new town of Cumbernauld, at present in the administrative area of North Lanarkshire.

"Blairlinn farm no longer exists. This farm was actually three farms (East/Mid/West); Mid Blairlinn abutted Clayslap, located between Cumbernauld and Myvot. It was part of the Shaw's holdings, later acquired by Robert Muirhead whose granddaughter's daughter sold it in 1886. All the land in this area was originally part of the lands of Glentore with the superior being Hamiltons then the Flemings.
In the late 17th and early 18th Century, a Sommerville family owned East Blairlinn but the family resided in Glasgow. Perhaps they portioned a parcel to the Cleland family who was farming there. However, by 1785, Easter Blairlinn was occupied by James Shaw; Clelands were at Mid Blairlinn, along with the Wotherspoon, Darnly and Paterson families.
John Gartshore died 1 Jan 1714, Blairlinn farm, New Monkland."

from Jim Main (2014) in Rootschat

Note: The "John Gartshore" who died in 1714 was born c 1642, and was married to Elezebeth Wood. ^{11 12 13 14}

John married Susanna HOUIE (DNA Linked), daughter of Robert HOWIE elder, of Glentore and Elizabeth GRAY, on 29 December 1712 in New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland.¹ (Susanna HOUIE (DNA Linked) was born about 1692.)

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Register
Airdrie or New Monkland parish Lanarkshire
Marriages

"1712
Decr 29 John Gartshore and Susanna Houie Witt John Craig yo^r in Middle Blairlin and William Thome son to Ro^t Thome in Easter glentore"

Note: A "Robert Thom in Easter Glentore" is a witness to a document of 1710 [National Archives of Scotland RS42/12/123] concerning Robert Howie, writer in Hamilton. ^{5 15}