Re: Where in Lanarkshire


Trevor wrote, Saturday, February 04, 2012 7:34 PM

I keep seeing Copper Smith

I agree.

Perhaps this might help ?

From http://www.spns.org.uk/CtLanark.html

Moving on from Lesmahagow in particular to Lanarkshire in general,
members with an interest in that county may be familiar with the work
of J.P. Miller. He did a series in 1931-32 for the Hamilton Advertiser
on the place-names of Lanarkshire. There is a type-script (about 100
pages) of this in the possession of the Scottish Place-Name Survey,
School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, which is
basically an alphabetical list of many Lanarkshire place-names with
their early forms.
For a study on the place-names of the Strathaven area of Lanarkshire,
see Lynne M. Prentice's 1991 dissertation in the archive of the School
of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, "A Study of the
Place-Names around Strathaven, Lanarkshire".
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Bibliography
.....
Miller, J. P., 1932 ‘Place-Names of Lanarkshire’ (type-script in
possession of Scottish Place-Name Survey, School of Scottish Studies,
Edinburgh comprising extracts from the Hamilton Advertiser 1931-32; an
alphabetical list of many Lanarkshire place-names with their early
forms).


You might also care to post your plea to
http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.researchresources.deciphertrans/mb.ashx
or to
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,425.0.html

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