Location of both Burnockhead and Little Burnockhead
In Scotlands Places 1855/87 Little Burnockhead is described and a small low long building one storey high thatched and in bad repair adjacent to and east of Burnockhead the property of the Marquis of Bute.
Burnockhead is described as a farmsteading, one storey thatched and in good repair.\
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| Caledonian Mercury January 1806 |
OPR burial 1827 death of Andrew Mitchell age 83 late of Burnockhead
The History of Ochiltree Village & Parish - Dane Love
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Burnockhead
1,010 Scots acres in 1798
1619 Ochiltree Estate -
1797 Newton Don Estate - James Mitchell
Newton Don Estate - William Campbell (1747-1814)
1798-
-1827 Andrew Mitchell (1744-1827)
1837 William Gillespie
1841 William Crawford (1801-18 )
1851 Peter MacMurray (1781-18 )
1851 Dumfries House Estate - Thomas MacMurray (1814-18 )
1854 Dumfries House Estate - Robert Riddle
1865 Dumfries House Estate - Ivie Campbell
1875 Dumfries House Estate - John Brown
c1880-1919 Dumfries House Estate - William Brown in Auchlin - Archibald
Wilson (1841-1929)
1919- William Brown of Auchlin - Archibald Wilson (1841-1929)
1923 Howat & Brown
Burnockhead, Little
Referred to as East Burnockhead (1861). In ruins by 1957.
1837 - John MacCulloch
1841 - James Weir (1796-18 )
1855 Dumfries House Estate
1861 Dumfries House Estate - James Morrison (1809-18 )
Census
1841 Large Burnockhead
William Crawford 40 with Jane 30, Marrion 6, Mary 4, Hugh 2. Also Jane Currie 15, and Marrion Hamilton 13.
Little Burnockhead
James Weir 45, Rosa 40, James 12 and William 10
1851 Burnockhead
Peter McMurray 70 and wife Janet 70 farming 20 acres arable and 100 acres of hill pasture employing 3 labourers. Also son Thomas 27, sister in law Mary McMillan 67, and servants John Hose 21 and John Smith 27.
Little Burnockhead
James Morrison 45, shepherd with wife Jane 35 and children Margaret 12, Christina 10, Isabella 8, James 6, William 4 and John 2.
1861 Now East Burnockhead
James Morrison 52 shepherd, wife Jean 45, and children Margaret 11, James 15, William 14, John 11, Ivie 8, Janet 6, Elizabeth 1, grand daughter Jean Richmond under 1 and visitor William Muir 21, shepherd.
1871
1881 Archibald Wilson 40 as a shepherd living with his family at Burnock Head.
They include his wife Janet 34, sons John 8, Hugh 6, and Archibald 2, and daughters Margaret 10, Elizabeth 4 and Janet 2 months.
1888 Burnockhead farm in the parish of Ochiltree.
Collie dog competition
Mr A. Wilson, Burnockhead, Ochiltree winning £2
Adrossan and Saltcoats Herald, Friday 19 October 1888
1891 Shepherd Archibald Wilson is 49, and wife Janet 43. They have Hugh 15, Elizabeth 13, Archibald 11, Janet 9, and James 7.
1901 Burnockhead Shepherds House
Shepherd Archibald Wilson , wife Janet, and sons Archibald 21 and James 17, and daughter Janet 20.
Valuation Rolls
1865 prop. Marquis of Bute, tenant Ivie Campbell. (Land Burnockhead and part of Dalgig)
1895 Occupier house Burnockhead Archibald Wilson
1905 refers to Auchlin and Burnockhead.
1920 - 40 prop. William Brown.
