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Elderslie (Scottish Gaelic: Achadh na Feàrna) is a village in the council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in west central Scotland. It chiefly serves as a commuter village, situated midway between the towns of Paisley and Johnstone, and lies 11 miles (18 km) west of Glasgow city centre.
Blind Harry's late-15th-century poem offers an alternate father for William, a Sir Malcolm of Elderslie, in Renfrewshire, and has similarly given rise to a possible birthplace for William. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] There is no contemporary evidence linking him with either location, although both areas had connections with the wider Wallace family. [ 12 ]
This much loved Renfrewshire village is perhaps best known as the birthplace of one of Scottish history’s most cherished heroes. Read on to discover the history and heritage of Elderslie. William Wallace was born to Malcolm Wallace, laird of Elderslie, and Lady Margaret Crawford in 1270.
In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Elderslie like this: Elderslie, a village in Abbey parish, Renfrewshire, with a station on the Glasgow and South-Western Rail- way, 2¼ miles W by S of Paisley, under which it has a post office.
Visitor information for Elderslie, Renfrewshire including accommodation, things to do, attractions, events and food & drink. Famous as the birthplace of Scotland’s Braveheart, Sir William Wallace (1274–1305), this pretty village has plenty to offer visitors.
When William Wallace was born on 6 April 1555, in Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland, his father, William Wallace, was 25 and his mother, Jane, was 23. He married Lady Janet Cathcart in 1567, in Scotland. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter.
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1 day ago · Wallace was the second son of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Elderslie in Renfrewshire. The elder Wallace was a minor landowner and a vassal of James, 5th steward of Scotland. In 1296 King Edward I of England deposed and imprisoned the Scottish king John de Balliol and declared himself ruler of Scotland.
