Overview
Carrick is a district that is now part of South Ayrshire. Members of this Burns club were presumably from this area but had since settled in Glasgow. In the 1890s, the club had 40 members on the roll, and met weekly on Saturday nights at 62 Glassford Street in the city centre (listed as the business address of William Morrison, wine and spirit merchant, in the Glasgow Post Office directory). Later, members would meet monthly on the last Tuesday of each month. By 1905, the number of members had dropped to 30.
The object of the club was the ‘Study of Burns and Kindred Literature’ (‘No. 34. — GLASGOW Carrick Burn Club’, ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1905’, in Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XIV (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1905), p. 148).
Date of Existence
25 January 1859-2005? Federated 1887
Source of Information
1.Memorial Catalogue of the Burns Exhibition. Held in the Galleries of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 175 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, From 15th July till 31st October, 1896 (Glasgow: William Hodge & Company and T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1898), p. xv (MLSC, Mitchell (AL) 14A MEM 472108);
2. ‘Burns Club celebrates its 113th year’, Carrick Gazette, 7 October 2005 <http://www.carricktoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/burns-club-celebrates-its-113th-year-1-332641> [accessed 23/09/15];
3. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies for 1893’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. II (Kilmarnock: D. Brown & Co., Glasgow and Edinburgh: J. Menzies & Co., January 1893), p. 190;
4. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1894’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. III (Kilmarnock: D. Brown & Co., February 1894), p. 194;
5. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1895’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. IV (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1895), p. 175;
6. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1896’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. V (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1896), p. 132;
7. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1903’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XII (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1903), p. 145;
8. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1904’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XIII (Kilmarnock, Burns Federation, January 1904), p. 138;
9. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1905’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XIV (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1905), p. 148
Repository
Mitchell Library Special Collections (MLSC)
National Library of Scotland (NLS)
Reference Number
(See Source of Information, and below for Annual Burns Chronicle)
BNS19BUR (MLSC) (Annual Burns Chronicle)
General Reading Room (stored offsite), Y.233, available no. 1-34 25th Jan. 1892-Jan. 1925 (NLS) (Annual Burns Chronicle)
Additional Notes
‘BC‘ refers to the Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, which was published yearly since 1892. Hard copies are available at the Mitchell Library Special Collections and the National Library of Scotland. Many of them have been digitised and are available through the Robert Burns World Federation website: http://www.rbwf.org.uk/digitised-chronicles/.
This list of Burns chronicles as sources of information gives the first year the club was included in the chronicle, and thereafter only for the years where the information is different from the previous year’s listing. In keeping with the scope of this study (1800-1914), only the chronicles published between 1892 and 1914 are included.