Clan Gartshore is an armigerous lowland Scottish Clan from Dumbartonshire.[1]

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

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.[2] Thomas Watson describes the earliest emergence of the clan in his 1894 book on Kirkintilloch.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "MyClan.com : Armigerous Clan Gartshore Home Page". 22 May 2006. Archived from the original on 22 May 2006.
  2. ^ "GARTSHORE HISTORY". gartshorefamilyhistory.co.uk.
  3. ^ Watson, Thomas (1894). Kirkintilloch, Town and Parish. pp. 97–104.
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