Dalgig was a venue for sheepdog trials.
Location 55 23 22N, 4 16 41W
Archaealogical dig at Dalgig from the Canmore website.
Census
1841 Ivy Campbell 41 and Jane 32. Ivy Campbell 7, Ivy Campbell 14, and a list of other workers names, 24 in all.
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1861 Ivie Campbell 61 farmer of 3000 acres with wife Jean 45 and son Ivie 27 with eleven servants.
See also Cumnock Chronicle 1925 for an account of Black Geordie a servant to Ivie Campbell.
Also another household at Dalgig, the Paterson family where John Paterson 60, is farming 225 acres and employing two shepherds.He also has his family and servants, and a family of basket makers staying at the night of the census.
John Paterson, wife Helen 55, and son John 18. Servants are Anthony Milligan 20, ploughman, John Thorburn, 18, ploughman, Margaret Austin 18, sarah Cumming 18, dairymaid, John Hair 16, stable boy, Andrew Stevenson, and the basket making fanily. They are William McAllister, from Wigtownshire and unamed family wife 32, three daughters 6, 4, and 1, which implies that their names weren't known.
Valuation Roll
Edward C Bruges from 1869
1871 Edward Bruges 23 with his brother William 24 are farming 2300 acres of pasture with 5 men and 2 women servants
In the 1881 census Edward 39 and his wife Mary Jane, 37 live here with their four small children. There are no details of acreage, but Edward and his wife were both born in England, and their children all born in New Cumnock. The eldest child is 6. They have three men and three women employed, one of whom is a nurse domestic.
1891 Edward C Bruges and wife Mary Jane 47 with children Charles Edward 16, William 13, Thomas 11, George E 9, Francis H 7, John P 4, brother Charles Earnest Bruges 32, a civil engineer and three servants. They are Helen McMath 24, Elizabeth Carrol 19, and William Gemmel 16.1901 Still the Bruges family
Valuation Roll
1855 tenant Ivie Campbell.
1865 prop Marquis of Bute.
1875 tenant Edward Burgess.
1920 tenant Jacob Murray.
1925-40 prop Jacob Murray.
From Robert Stevenson on Facebook 2018
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| Dalgig 1960s |
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| Dalgig tiles, some of which were shipped to Ivie Campbell's descendant Neil and his wife Vic in Australia. Robert Guthrie |
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Miss Annie S Murray, Dalgig. b Carston 1877 d Ayr 1953 |
Farmed by Ivie Campbell and his son of the same name
Jacob S Murray from 1919
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| Dalgig farm CC 1919 |
March 1928
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| April 1927 dispersal sale at Dalgig RMS |
Dalgig farmhouse RM Stevenson
Dalgig pond RM Stevenson 1940s
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| Jacob Murray Farmer Dalgig notice CC 1921 |
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| Dalgig farm for sale CC 1953 |
From Robert Stevenson on Facebook 2018
By the source of the Nith, said to be the largest farm on the Dumfries House Estate.
Dad's cousin Margaret Montgomerie (Mrs Flemming, Gavinburn) told me one of the jobs they got in the summer was to walk a cow in season, across the moorland to visit Muir General French - a top bull at the Muir beyond Skares. Sounds like a massive distance but actually with the way the Nith runs it's only a few miles as the crow flies. You still have to wonder how a cow in full milk was expected to walk nearly ten miles AND conceive at the end of it ! The days before AI
