Clan Gartshore is an armigerous lowland Scottish Clan from Dumbartonshire.[1]
Clan Gartshore | |||
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Motto | I Renew my age.[1] | ||
Clan Gartshore no longer has a chief, and is an armigerous clan | |||
Historic seat | Gartshore, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire | ||
Last Chief | Gartshore of that Ilk | ||
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The name comes from lands of that name in the parish of Kirkintilloch in Dumbartonshire. There are references to the Gartshore Clan as far back as the late 12th century.[2] Thomas Watson describes the earliest emergence of the clan in his 1894 book on Kirkintilloch.[3]