Need Help Finding Clans for Research

[YoungMan]

I'm doing some casual research into connections between my father's surname and possible Scottish origins. Some records from the 1830s and onward show the areas of origin as being Dumfrieshire, Ayrshire, and Lanarkshire. From that point on the name starts to disperse elsewhere. I was wondering if anyone knew of or had a way to find out which clans frequented those areas.

[Big Homestead]

What is the clan name?

[YoungMan]

The problem is that the name isn't a clan name. It is associated with a topographical feature which is prevalent in those areas (a shank). Shanklin/Shankland. It's seems more likely that the first people to carry the name were originally something else, then become known by the area they lived in and then adopted the name. e.g. Bob Mac??? of Shankland -> Bob Shankland
I'm just trying to get some ideas of who was in the area. Maybe I can see if the clan names of the area dispersed similarly.

[Woot22]

Try this website,
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx

I entered in Shankland and it appears to be most common in Glasgow and Kilmarnock.
Good luck in your research.

[macwilkin]

I'm doing some casual research into connections between my father's surname and possible Scottish origins. Some records from the 1830s and onward show the areas of origin as being Dumfrieshire, Ayrshire, and Lanarkshire. From that point on the name starts to disperse elsewhere. I was wondering if anyone knew of or had a way to find out which clans frequented those areas.

Those are all in the Lowlands, so traditionally they would not be associated with the Highland clans. A number of Lowland families have fairly recently adopted the trappings of Highland clans, but traditionally Lowlanders would have very little to do with the Highlanders.

Regards,

Todd

[YoungMan]

The lowland or highland nature of the clan doesn't really bother me. I'm just trying to find a list of clans by county or shire to do some further digging.

[Phogfan86]

Scottish Clan Map

[Bruce Scott]

Black (The Surnames of Scotland) has entries for Shank (Midlothian), Shankilaw (Lanark) and Shankland/Shanklin (Dumfries).

[YoungMan]

Does Surnames of Scotland list those in an alphabetical list, or is there more information?

[The Wizard of BC]

YoungMan,

I hope you noticed CajunScots comment "traditionally they would not be associated with the Highland clans". By using the more modern concept that "If it's Scottish it must be Clan associated" is not totally accurate.

In the lowlands the folks did not usually think of themselves as owing allegience to a Clan as much as they did to their town, region or district.

What you may find is that you will feel more comfortable and authentic with one of the Regional Tartans than you would in a Highland Clan Tartan.