Old Photograph Carstairs Junction Scotland

Old photograph of horses and carts, shop, houses and people in Carstairs Junction village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Carstairs is an interesting name is of medieval Scottish origin and is locational from the manor or barony of Carstairs in the former county of Lanarkshire. Carstairs was formerly recorded as Casteltarres which derives from the Middle English "casteli " a castle and the personal name " Tarra " or " Tarres ", of uncertain origin. During the Middle Ages, when it became more common to migrate from their villages, often to seek work, people would adopt the placename as a means of identification, thus resulting in a wide dispersal of the name. Carstairs is recorded in America in the late 18th Century, when one Thomas Carstairs, born in Largo, Fife in 1759, a builder and architect, emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania in 1784. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Adam de Castrotharis, which was dated 1259, Pardevinan in Lanarkshire, during the reign of King Alexander 11.



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