Clan Gartshore

Clan Gartshore is an armigerous lowland Scottish Clan from Dumbartonshire.[2]

Clan Gartshore
MottoI Renew my age.[1]
Clan Gartshore has no chief, and is an armigerous clan
Historic seatGartshore, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire
Last ChiefGartshore of that Ilk

History

Notable members of the Gartshore Clan include:

  • Katie Boulter – Tennis player
  • James Gartshore Boulter – entrepreneur and contributing Editor at Wonderland Magazine [3][4]

Origins of the clan

The name comes from lands of that name in the parish of Kirkintilloch in Dumbartonshire. There are references to the Gartshore Clan as far back as the late 12th century.[5] Thomas Watson describes the earliest emergence of the clan in his 1894 book on Kirkintilloch.[6]

gollark: I decided to obtain Slay the Spire, which is a cool deckbuilder roguelike thing, in me and <@!332271551481118732>'s yearly game-purchasing ceremony, instead of it.
gollark: Perhaps I should obtain that game.
gollark: ++delete hypixel
gollark: ++list_deleted
gollark: No idea about that one.

See also

References
  1. My Clan
  2. My Clan
  3. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/business/news/10958700.Barista_contest_finalist_demonstrates_his_skills_at_new_cafe___GOT/
  4. http://www.tatler.com/bystander/events/2014/september/james-gartshore-boulters-21st-birthday
  5. http://www.gartshorefamilyhistory.co.uk/hist.html
  6. Watson, Thomas (1894). Kirkintilloch, Town and Parish. pp. 97–104.

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