Sunday, 26 July 2020

Barmickhill, Old Cumnock

Location

OPR baptism
1705 Hugh McCowan son lawful to Robert McCowan and Jane Nicol in Barmickhill was baptised 18th February


Jennifer Kirkland



1851 census shows Hugh Patrick 38 farmer of 99 acres wife Margaret (Black) and 4 children


                                                   Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 17/6/1871



Barmickhill has a field named 'Wee Specs' - see the link above to the map showing exactly why....

John Nimmo and wife Agnes Riggans there 1881, 1891, 1901

Kirklands from about 1915 (bought the farm from Dumfries estate) 

Valuation Roll 
1855 tenant John MacNeight
1885 prop Marquis of Bute
1895 tenant John Nimmo 
1915 tenant  James Kirkland
1925 prop James Kirkland

James Kirkland 1915 -1940 valuation rolls

photos Jennifer Kirkland

1993

James Kirkland