Sunday, 12 July 2020

Burnockston, Ochiltree

Location OS 1 inch Spelling as above

From Find My Past baptisms:-
John Guthrie was the father of 
Jean 1725
James 1727
James born at Drumsmudden 1735 (?)
James 1735

The History of Ochiltree Village & Parish - Dane Love
pp 310,311
Burnockstone
Also spelled Burnockston. 120 acres in 1871. 215 acres in 2011.
1619                Ochiltree Estate -
        -1658       Ochiltree Estate -
1658-               Robert Fergushill
1744                John Fergushill
1797                Rev John MacDermeit Fergushill - William Brown
1841-1862       Captain Robert MacDermeit Fergushill (1775-1862) - John Brown (1778-1865)
1862-1865       Dr Andrew Fergushill-Crawford (1798-1867)  - John Brown  (1778-1865)
1865-1867       Dr Andrew Fergushill-Crawford  (1798-1867) - Quintin Brown (1822-1898) 
1867-1881       James MacCosh, Dalry - Quintin Brown (1822-1898)
1891-1930       Andrew Kirkwood MacCosh of Rochsoles - Andrew Howat (1863-19   )
1951-1958                        -John Drummond
1967-2005       John Drummond (d.2008)
2005-2011                           Hadfield
2011                                    MacWhirter


The Brown family

Census
1841 John Brown 58 and Jean McCallum 45, Quintine Brown 18, James Fleming16, and Jane Findlay.
1851 census shows John Brown 74 and second wife Jean McCrone 62 son Quinton 25,and servants Ann McDonach 18, Agnes Adams 17, and Neilson Weir 24.
1861 census shows John Brown 84 Jean 72 son Quinton 38, grandson Alexander Brown 22, ploughman and servants Helen McGlethren 16, and Agnes Lammie18
1871 census shows Quintin Brown 48 Farmer Of 150 Acres Employing 1 Labourer wife Agnes (Weir) 2 children, John 2, and David Morrison under 1, and 3 servants James Peden 18, Margaret Bickerstaff 26, and Jane Black 16.
1881 Quinten Brown  58 wife Agnes 41 farming 151 acres,  children John 12, David 10, Mary Kerr 7, Robert 5, Jessie Wallace 2, and servants Jane Mattinmow 20, and Helen Kennedy 21.

The Howat Family
The 1891 census shows Andrew Howat 28 farmer, son John 6, son William  5, dtr Grace 3, son Andrew 10 months, 2 female general domestics and 1 male farm servant.
(Andrew previously farmed Whitehill)
The 1901 census shows Andrew Howat 38 and his wife Agnes 45 (Gibson - Barshare Farm) farming Burnockston  along with daughter Agnes CC 17 a dairymaid, son John Mungo Manson Howat 16, son William G Howat 15, daughter Grace F. Howat 13, dtr Maggie Jane 8, son Alexander 6 and John Howat 32 a farm servant.

Valuation Rolls
1855 prop. Capt. R Fergushill, tenant John Brown.  
1865 A. Fergushill Crawford,  tenant Quinton Brown.  
1895 Tenant Andrew Howat
1905 Proprietor Andrew MacCosh, tenant Andrew Howat of Burnockstone
1915 Proprietor Andrew MacCosh, tenant Andrew Howat of Burnockstone and part of Burnockhill
1930 Proprietor Andrew MacCosh
1940 John Drummond, proprietor house and farm of Burnockstone and part of Burnockhill (another part of Burnockhill was owned by Mungo Howat)
1955 Photograph  - John Drummond





                                                          Scotsman November 1948



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