1613
Commissariot of Glasgow
Patrick McCrone in Skellingtoun Mylne. 29/12/1613
Katherine Browne relict of Patrick McCane Miller at Skillingtoune Mylne Parish of Cumnock 8/1/1617
Some Births/Baptisms in Skerringtown Milne
17/10/1725 - John son to William Murdoch
19/2/1727 - Robert son to William Murdoch
8/11/1728 - William Murdoch lawful son to deceased William Murdoch and Janet King.
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| Caledonian Mercury 1797 |
Current occupant Jim Smith has a lot of information on the Bairds and operates The Cumnock Heritage Centre at nearby Caponacre.
Skerrington Mill in Cumnock was the first farm on a lane that started opposite Netherthird Farm near where the Thistle Inn (built 1955) sits at its entrance. The lane led to Burnside, Horsecleugh and then Bowes, the cans were brought by horse & cart to the entrance to Skerrington Mill and collected by motor lorry and probably to the station or creamery. The council would have acquired land to build Skerrington 30/40 s perhaps in the 1800s. The Mill would have produced flour and later used to saw wood for cart making, one shed has always been called the "Paint Shed". There were 2 cottages close by "Burnwelltrees" and "Woodend" .The Glaisnock & Horsecleugh burns run through the land. (Jim Smith)
Valuation Roll
1895 prop Marquis of Bute, tenant James Baird. 1920 prop James Baird. 1935 prop Alexander Baird. 1940 prop William Baird.
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| James Baird Farmer Skerrington Mill obit CC 1932 |
Jim Smith
My Grandpa was the tenant farmer back in 1930 and when it came up for sale, rules were that sitting tenant would always be offered the property at a price above the best offer, I am not sure where he got the money as a miner but he did, when Grandpa died in 1959, my dad bought out his brothers and we moved in (I was 4), Dad died in 2012 (92) and I bought it.
The 1841 census shows William Stewart 30 miller with wife Mary 25, 5 children age 9yrs and under and Margaret McCann 55.
The 1851 census shows John Henderson 29 as miller and his wife Margaret (Craig) 20.
By 1861 John and Margaret were in Borland Mill
The 1861 census shows John Alexander 32 grain miller and his niece Eliza Brown age 12.
The 1871 census shows Skerrington Mill now occupied by John Baird 54 a master joiner and his wife Margaret (Weir) 57, their son James 20 a joiner, dtr Helen 17, grand-daughter Mary Templeton 4 and an agricultural labourer boarder.
The 1881. Census shows John Baird 66 joiner and his wife Margaret and family.
The 1891 census shows John Baird 74 joiner living there. He died 29/6/1896 at Skerrington Mill.
(Death certificate names parents as John Baird farmer and Penelope Black)
The 1901 census shows Skerrington Mill now occupied by James Baird 50 joiner & coachbuilder and his wife Mary & family.
