Monday, 6 July 2020

Burnside, Old Cumnock

Location  in the Horsecleuch Glen, north of Horsecleuch farm,  it is now covered by the Cumnock bypass and Caponacre Industrial Estate. Think this is Low Burnside

also High Burnside

Lymburns are High Burnside

Burnside of Glaisnock was south west of Glaisnock House
1669 Testament of Thomas Skilling (widower of Jean Sloane) at Burnside of Glaisnock

Burnside of Shankston 1704 John Weir son of John Weir and Janet Brown

OPR baptism Old Cumnock
Elizabeth Mckirrow lawful daughter of  George McKirrow and Margaret McCrone in Burnside of Glaisnock was born 2nd and baptised 5 April 1772

Horse Tax  1797-98  Widow Howatson Burnside 2 horses

1833 James Brown, High Burnside was due rent of £27 for the Martinmas quarter to the estate of Alexander Allason who died in June of that year.

1881 census
High Burnside, Cumnock James Mitchell 34 farmer of 183 Acres, All Arable Employing 3 Girls, & 1 Man wife Janet (Borland) 34, 4 small children 4 servants
 
Valuation Roll 
1855 tenant J Sharp.  
1865 prop Richard Bannatyne, tenant James Sharp.  
1875 prop Capt Robert Campbell, tenant James Sharp.  
1885 tenant James Mitchell.  
1895 tenant James Lymburn.  
1915 prop Marquis of Bute, tenant Hugh Lymburn.  
1920 prop shown as both Marquis of Bute and Hugh Lymburn.  
1925 prop Hugh Lymburn.
1940 prop Hugh Lymburn.

1919 for sale along with Glaisnock House, 20 Jun 1919 The Scotsman




Taken from Cumnock connections on Janet Hastings  Her father David Hastings was a bower on Low Burnside farm in 1900;

Cumnock Chronicle 1923

High  Burnside  was 1960s owned by the Murray family, now in Pencloe up the Afton.