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Airdrie (/'??rdri/; Scots: Airdrie; Scottish Gaelic: An t-?rd Ruigh)[2] is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on a plateau roughly 400 ft (130 m) above sea level, and is approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Glasgow city centre. As of 2012, the town had a population of around 37,130.[3][4][5] Historically part of Lanarkshire, Airdrie forms part of a conurbation with its neighbour Coatbridge, in what is commonly known as the Monklands, formerly a district. (population approximately 90,000 including outlying settlements).[6]
Name
Airdrie's name first appeared in the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Registrum Magni Sigilii Regum Scotorum) in 1373 as Ardre. By 1546 it had become Ardry and by 1587 it was known as Ardrie. In 1630 it finally appeared in the Register as Airdrie. Given the topography of the area, the most likely interpretation is that the name derives from the Gaelic An ?rd Ruigh meaning a level height or high pasture land. Another possibility is that it is from the Gaelic An ?rd ?irighe meaning a sheiling, a summer pasture/shepherd's hut. A third possibility is the Gaelic Ard Reidh meaning a high plain.[7] A further, non-Gaelic alternative is the Brythonic, i.e. Cumbric or North Welsh, ard tref (becoming ardre by process of assimilation), meaning a high steading or farmstead, which would date back to the times of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, before the expansion of Gaelic or English speech into the region. Airthrey Castle in Stirlingshire may have a similar derivation.[
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Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Birth  |
Person ID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bell, Rev. William M. A. | 20 May 1780 | Airdre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | I37887 |
| 2 | Simpson, William | 18 Jun 1853 | Airdre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | I15736 |
| 3 | Smith, Margaret Jane | 1805 | Airdre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | I41595 |
| 4 | Wilson, Agnes | 18 Nov 1810 | Airdre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | I37883 |
| 5 | Wood, Walter Y. | 1801 | Airdre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | I1392 |
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