Scotland Genealogy: Wigtownshire
Census & County Records
WIGTOWNSHIRE, a maritime county in the SW extremity of Scotland,
forms the W division of Galloway, and contains the most southernly
land in Scotland. It is bounded on the N partly by the mouth
of the Firth of Clyde, but chiefly by Ayrshire, E by Kirkcudbrightshire,
S by the Irish Sea, and W by the Irish Channel....
...The interior is divided into three great districts. The
peninsula, or rather the double peninsula, W of Loch Ryan
and Luce Bay, is known as the Rhinns of Galloway; the district
which forms the broad-based triangular peninsula between Luce
Bay and Wigtown Bay is called the Machers; while the rest
of the county, N of the Machers and E of Loch Ryan, bears
the loose general name of the Moors...
...The streams of Wigtownshire are very numerous, but for
the most part of short course and unimportant size. The chief
is the Cree, which for 21 1/2 miles forms the boundaries between
Kirkcudbright and Wigtown shires, just before it enters Wigtown
Bay at Creetown....
...Wigtownshire is almost exclusively an agricultural and
grazing county, its manufacture and commerce, and mining being
but of little importance...
...The royal burghs in the county are Wigtown, Stranraer,
and Whithorn; the burghs of barony are Newton Stewart, Glenluce,
and Portpatrick...
. [Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, edited by Francis
H. Groome, 1885 ]
Parish & Probate Records
Wigtownshire,
Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
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Wigtownshire Archives
Stranraer
Museum, 55 George Street, Stranraer DG9 7JP (Archives)
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