Hi, Sharon, Could you please list the principal landowners if possible? Do you have any history of those families? Thank you. April -----Original Message----- From: Sharon [mailto:queenbee_44@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 6:19 AM To: SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Renfrew] Walkinshaw Jim, While I see there is indeed a place called Walkinshaw, I am unable to locate a whole write up on the name. It just mentions it as a coast along river. In Renfrew there are several are seven principal landowners. The chief mansions are Elderslie, Bysthswwod, Scotstown, Jordanhill and Walkingshaw. The average rental is about L2 15s per acre. Cart (The Black) a river of Renfrewshire. It issues from Castle-Semple lock and may therefore be regarded as continuation of the Renfrewshire Calder. It runs about ( miles north-eastward, past Johnston and Lindwood, dividing the county into nearly equal parts, receiving the Gryfe on its lift bank at Walkinsaw and unites with the White Cart at Inchinan Bridge. The Gryfe A river of Renfrewshire. It rises in the western part of the parish of Greenock and runs eastward. At Walkinshaw it joins the Black Cart. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: <SCT-RENFREW-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <SCT-RENFREW-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 8:01 AM Subject: SCT-RENFREW-D Digest V03 #201 ==== SCT-RENFREW Mailing List ==== ********************************************************************** The Renfrewshire Query board is at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Renfrew