Records of the Burgh of Anderston

This material is held atGlasgow City Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 243 H-AND
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1836 - 1846
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 5 volumes

Scope and Content

The collection includes: Minutes of the Burgh Commissioners.

Administrative / Biographical History

Anderston was constituted a burgh of barony by Crown charter in 1824. It had a town council consisting of a provost, three bailies, a treasurer, and 11 councillors, elected by proprietors for liferenters of heritable subjects, and by tenants paying £20 or upwards of annual rent. It was annexed in 1846 to the municipal burgh of Glasgow. It has, since that time, returned a certain proportion of members to the city council and shares largely in much of the industry of Glasgow, particularly in various kinds of factories, and in foundries and ship-building yards.

[Source: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome]

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