Also Bouton
OPR burial Ochiltree 1846 deaths Janet Key in Bowton aged 73 unmarried daughter of *the late?* Alexander Key in Knockshiffnock died on 12th day of July 1846.
Horse Tax 1797-8 Andrew Mackie 6 horses, 4 taxed (in with Little Muir)
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1841 census Bouton John Mackie 65 farmer Mary 60 Adam 25 William 20 Janet Kay 65 independent one f servant
wee baler 2005 Jennifer Kirkland
and 2021 baler also from Jennifer
I wonder if any of the readers of the News can remember the verses on BOOT'N AN' THE TILES." . Boo't'n—or more properly Bowton—was a worthy old farmer whose farm lay on the extreme western border of the parish. Like most farmers', his clock was always before Greenwich time. On one occasion, when " the nock " was no less than three hours fast, he left his home at twelve o'clock on a Sunday night, and came rattling through the town on his way for tiles, at what was really ten o'clock. It is said that he had to stand " the session" for this act of transgressing the sanctity of the Sabbath.
1871 census
Bouton farm
Adam McKie 59 Farm 110 Acres Employ In 113 & Over Family, with wife Helen children John 25 Adam 23 Catherine 19 servant Hannah McLatchie 30 Wm. Lapraik 13 also some a beggar woman widow Ann Wilson 35 and her 3 young children were sleeping in the barn
1881 Bowton farm
Adam McKay 69 farmer of 140 acres wife 3 children father in law and 2 servants
1891 census, Bowton, John McKie 44 head servants Hannah McLatchie 54 Margaret McLatchie 18 and Irish itinerant tinsmith Stewart Campbell 70 and wife Mary Campbell 70 sleeping in barn
John Mackie farmer
Valuation Rolls
1855 proprietor Marquis of Bute, tenant Mrs John Mackie.
1865 tenant Adam Mackie.
1865 tenant Adam Mackie.
1905 tenant John Mackie.
1920 prop John Mackie.
1925 prop Jane MacCartney or Mackie.
1930 prop Adam Mackie, tenant Jane MacCartney or Mackie.
Nowadays it is a house.
