Shotts Ironworks.....

dstew · Post by **dstew** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:06 am

Can someone shed any light on my subject? Shotts IronWorks Lanakshire SCotland .
I have many ancestors of different generations lists either marrage or living or birth at Shotts IronWorks Was the Ironworks like a living community arount the Works .THe main reason for my question is i have found a marriage for an Agnes Stewart born to William Stewart and Janet Spiers,wittnes to marriage is a Isabella Stewart. I have both names of Agnes Stewart and a Isabella Stewart but not to a father of William as to my main question was the iron works a living community :?:

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:23 am

Hi dstew

A google search on Shotts Iron Works brings up this site:

http://www.monklands.co.uk/shotts/

which might give you some more info about the area. Looks like there may have been row housing at one time.

Also I found this description....
"Shotts Iron Works, Lanarkshire
Shotts Iron Works, was founded in 1801 by Robert and Hugh Baird. Over the next century and a half the works expanded to include collieries, brick works, lime works, 5 blast furnaces, a foundry, an electricity power station, central workshops, by-products works and 290 houses. Following the Coal Nationalisation Act, 1947 the Shotts Iron Works Company (producing 743,000 tons of coal in 1946), went into voluntary liquidation and ceased trading on 31 March 1947."

Does this help?

Best wishes
Jean
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Post by **marilyn morning** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:57 am

Hello Dstew

Welcome to the forum here on TS. In addition to Jean's excellent suggestion, I would recommend this site; www.mcpitz.com

Click onto "Mining Links" here you'll find "Colin Findlay's" (bottom row)
website on "History of the Scottish Iron & Steel History"

Regards
Marilyn

dstew · Post by **dstew** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:59 am

THanks very much will look into those web sites
Darren

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:50 am

dstew wrote:Can someone shed any light on my subject? Shotts IronWorks Lanakshire SCotland .
I have many ancestors of different generations lists either marrage or living or birth at Shotts IronWorks

Hullo dstew

Wonder what your Shotts Ironworks family names are? I have a BAIN, a CONNOR and a WILSON married into my LIVINGSTON family there.

Hope your research is profitable.

Catriona

dstew · Post by **dstew** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:19 am

Catorina
I have nmes of Stewart Topping Glencorse

Names searching
Stewart,McCrorie,Glencorse,Topping,Arnot

marie · Post by **marie** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:31 pm

Dstew,

I have ancestors from Shotts - many worked in the Ironworks - and still have family living in the town. There is an excellent local history group with a website - www.shottshistorygroup.co.uk - I have just tried it however, and it isn't working. Not sure if this is a temporary problem - or if the site is no longer available.
There is another site with some info -http://www.monklands.co.uk/shotts/.
The Shotts history group have produced some really good booklets about the area.

Marie

dstew · Post by **dstew** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:41 pm

Marie,
Thanks for you reply i will have to check out the Shotts history group hopefully it hasn't been closed

Darren

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