Eglismaluag, Eglismalesoch, Forest Kirk, Kirk Forest
Carluke is a parish in the upper ward of Lanarkshire. It is bounded by Cambusnethan, Carstairs, Lanark, Lesmahagow, and Dalserf. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Braidwood or Bradwood, Carluke, Harestanes, Kilcadzow, Kirkton, Law, Roadmeetings, Thornice, Wildmanbridge, Yieldshields
Belston, Brownlee, Hallcraig, Milton-Lockhart
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
The vicarage of Carluke belonged to the priory of Lesmahagow. Its church, often called the Forest Kirk, was dedicated to St Andrew, but there was an earlier dedication to St Luag, or Maluag. On the lands of Braidwood, in the south of the parish, there was a chapel of St Oswald. The lands of Spitalshiels, within the bounds, belonged to the hospital of St Leonard, near Lanark. Carluke Church was rebuilt in 1799.
Disjoined Quoad Sacra Parishes:
Law . A chapel was opened here 8 January 1880. The parish was disjoined from Carluke, 16 March 1885.
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
Carluke (QO)
Law (QS)
(1928: Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, by Hew Scott, D. D.)
Parish registers turned over to the Registrar-General, as a result of the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Act of 1854. The letters B. D. and M. indicate Births (or Baptisms), Deaths (or Burials), and Marriages (or Proclamations of Banns) respectively. Numbers indicate separate volumes or books. Note: These records are by no means complete or without damage; consult the Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland (1872) to learn more about the condition of the records.
| OPR and RD Numbers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Range | Name | Number | Type |
| 1690-1854 | Carluke | 629 | OPR |
| 1855-1971 | Carluke | 629 | RD |
| 1972-2004 | Carluke | 581 | RD |
| 2005-2008 | Carluke, South Lanarkshire | 581 | RD |
| 2009 | South Lanarkshire, Carluke | 581 | RD |
| 2026 | South Lanarkshire Council; Carluke Community Council | ||
(2009: Parishes and Registration Districts of Scotland - Old and New, National Records of Scotland)
Local community councils (2026) are provided as a potential source of additional information for settlements within the original boundaries of the parish. (Source)
Statistics from informal and official censuses
Brown, Forrest, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Marshall, Russell, Scott, Weir, Wilson, Young
Note: Names appearing in research materials, other than censuses. Simple names (First name, surname only) have been omitted unless they appear associated with large properties. All women's names, and men's names with occupations, military ranks, or peerage titles are included.
By the Reverend Mr James Scott.
"In August 1792, the whole inhabitants of the parish were 1730. The village of Carluke increases more rapidly than any other. From consisting, about 24 years ago, of 4 or 5 houses, with little trade, it is now advanced to a large and decent village; so that it finds employment for a surgeon, a baker, a vintner, and several grocers. There are also in it, butchers, weavers, stocking-makers, masons, tailors, wrights, innkeepers, road-makers, haberdashers, and coopers; and even some milliners and mantua-makers, in the town or near to it.
A new village, it is said, is soon to be built, and a cotton work to be erected nigh it, to be driven by a steam engine. Fruit abounds more in this parish than any other upon the Clyde, or perhaps even in Scotland. The orchards in this district, extend about 5 miles.
The character of the people, in general, is very respectable; and it is much to their honour, that, after living among them for about 30 years, the present incumbent can say with truth, that they are in general of good understanding, moderate in their views, and of humane dispositions."
(This section contains excerpts, at times restructured or paraphrased, from an article appearing in Statistical Account of Scotland, Sir John Sinclair, 1791-1799)
Primary Sources:
Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-1799), Volume 8, p. 120
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 6, p. 563
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