Location OS six inch for Scotland
Scotlands Places describes Hill like this in 1855/57:
| "A large Farm house and outoffices planned on
the most approved Sanitary principal the dwelling is two, and the out
offices one, Storey high Slated and in good repair quite modern hence the
name, the property of the heirs of the late Alexander Ross Esquire
adjacent to and north of Ochiltree Village" The History of Ochiltree Village & Parish - Dane Love p321 Hill of Ochiltree Incorporates Pool. Steading rebuilt 1849. 145 acres in 1862. 1619 Ochiltree Estate - c1780-1786 - William Paterson (d1786) <1826 - James Campbell 1857 Alexander Ross heirs 1865-1868 Dumfries House Estate - William Steel 1875-1916 Dumfries House Estate - William Wallace (1827-1916) 1916-1919 Dumfries House Estate - Robert Lennox 1919-1940 Robert Lennox -1960 Mungo Lennox Jamieson (1887-1960) -2017 James Gatherer (1929-2017) |
Census
1841 No references, although it must have existed as it appears on the above OS Name Book of 1855/7
1851 James Hamilton 34 farm manager of 135 acres employing 7 labourers. His sister Anna Bell 30, is housekeeper. Also niece Mary Douglas 5, two dairymaids, Jane Riddle 29 and Agnes McAlpine 20 and James Gibson 15, cow feeder.
1861 William Steel 48, and wife Jane 48, farming 104 acres employing 3 labourers. Family are James 13, Jane 12, Janet 8, Robert 6, William 4, and John 2. Annie Findlay 20 and Margaret McBride 19 are domestic servants.
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| Edinburgh Evening Courant , 1st Aug 1862 |
1871 William Wallace 43 and Christina W, 42, farming 145 acres arable and employing 1 labourer. With them are daughters Maggie W 15, Christina 7, Jane 1, and Marion M 9. Also sonsWilliam R M 14, John 12, James 5, and Thomas D 3. Margaret McLeod 45 is visiting and Robert Nisbet 21 is a ploughman.
The 1881 census shows William Wallace 52 and his wife Christina 51. The farms is stated as 14 acres arable employing 2 men and 3 girls.
Also on the farm are their children Maggie 25, William R. M. 24, Marion M 19, Christina 17, James George 15, Thomas D 13, Jane M 11 and Mary 7.
1891 Hill of Ochiltree. William Wallace 62, wife Christina 61, daughters Marion McC 28, Christina 26, Jane M 21 and Mary 17, ande son Thomas D, 23, general estate clerk. Alexander McRobert 22 is a farm servant.
1901 Hill Farm. William 72 and Christina 71, with Christina 37, Jane Merry, 31, Mary 27, and grand daughter Davidina Catherine Wilson 7. James Savage 23, is a ploughman.
1911 Hill, Ochiltree William Wallace 82 Head farmer wife Christina 81 2 daughters a granddaughter and a ploughman
1855 prop. Alexander Ross.
1865 prop. Marquis of Bute, tenant William Steel.
1925 prop. Robert Lennox.
