Journal No. 18 (2016)
Renfrewshire Local HistoryForum
See Publications page for Contents and Price.
Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire
Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire
By Rob Close, John Gifford, Frank Arneil Walker
Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland
Published: Nov. 2016
Price: £35.00 (£28 on amazon)
800 pages with 120 colour illustrations
The Semples, Lord Semples of West Scotland: family and contextual history from the 11th to 19th Centuries Paisley’s
By Roxine A Beaumont Semple
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 2015
Price £29.99 on amazon
250 pages and numerous excellent illustrations
Paisley’s Fallen in the War 1914 – 1918
Revised and updated by James Meikle Smith, Renfrewshire Family History Society,and published by Renfrewshire Council, 2016
In 2009 Jim began looking into the Paisley Buddies that paid the supreme sacrifice for their King and Country during the First World War. In researching his book, the starting point was William Lochhead’s “Paisley’s Fallen” published in 1920. Another source was William John Nixon & Lt John McCulloch Young’s “Wasted Journey” Jim felt that those who died after the war as a result of injuries sustained deserved to be honoured and this bookincluded many more Paisley men who died between August 1914 and the end of 1926 where death was attributed to wounds sustained on the battlefields ofthe First World War.
A PDF version of the book is available from all Renfrewshire Libraries and copies have been distributed to all schools and military departments throughout Renfrewshire free of charge. A copy is available from the RLHF archives.
Eaglesham: The farmlands and the Orry 
By Susan Hunter, a member of the Forum and of ACFA
Published by The Association of Certified Field Archaeologists 2016
Price: £13.00
310 pages with numerous illustrations
Newton Mearns through Time
By Graeme Smith and Anne Robertson, members of Mearns History Group
Published: Sept. 2014
Price: £14.99 Available from booksellers and Amazon
180 photographs, old and new, mainly in colour,
Royalties donated to the Isobel Mair School.
Renfrewshire: A Scottish County’s Hidden
Past
By Derek Alexander and Gordon McCraedon, members of Mearns History Group
Published: Sept. 2012
Price: £14.99 Available from booksellers and Amazon (maybe cheaper at AbeBooks.co.uk)
290 pages
103 illustrations and 16 colour plates
Dedicated to the memory of Gordon McCrae, 1947-2005