Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Stonepark - Old Cumnock

John MacGeachan a Covenanter martyr farmed Meikle Auchingibbert in and was buried at Stonepark 1688.

Location 55 26 57N, 4 13 36W

Stonepark drawing 1960 CC

Think J. M. Begg is James McGee Begg


Auchinleck Churchyard
Lair Ref: 320
Elizabeth Murdoch d Stonepark, Cumnock June 1831 33, hus Wm Lamont farmer 
Er. John Lamont IMO w Ann Howie d Holmhead, Logan 28/5/1871

1841 Census - Stonepark, Old Cumnock
William Lamont - farmer + William, Janet & John Lamont
1851 Census - Stonepark 
William Lamont - farmer of 40 acres  son John Lamont farm labourer 
1861 Census - Stonepark
John Barr - ploughman and his wife Margaret (Murdoch) & 2 children
 John & Margaret were married 28/5/1858 at Loganhill Cumnock. They were both farm servants at Blackfauld Cumnock on the marriage certificate. Margaret was the daughter of Peter Murdoch & Margaret Murray in Bellston Parish of Ochiltree.

1861 - Stonepark 
On a separate census it records a William Thom - labourer - and family

Valuation Rolls:  
1865 prop William Cunningham.  
1875 tenant Thomas Campbell.  
1895 prop Captain Richard Bannatine Allison, tenant Jessie Campbell. 
1920 tenant John Callan.  
1930 prop John Callan.

Thomas Campbell tenant occupier Land Stonepark Thomaston 1874
Jessie Campbell tenant occupier House & Farm of Stonepark & Thomarston