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Common Farm was owned by the Alexanders of Ballochmyle until the 20th century
(Source: The History of Auchinleck - Village & Parish [p87] - Dane Love)
ISBN - 978 0 9567550 9 4
Also from The History of Auchinleck Village &Parish (pp 310/311) - Dane Love
Common
-1831 - Hugh Murdoch
1837 Ballochmyle Estate
-1873. Ballochmyle Estate - James Clark (1829-1873)
1873. -1902 Ballochmyle Estate - James Clark of Carskeoch JP (1866-1926)
1902 -1926 James Clark of Carskeoch JP (1866-1926)
Alexander Dalziel (d1937)
1926 -1946 Christina Gordon of Carskeoch - Alexander Dalziel (d1937)
& William Dalziel (d1983)
1946 -1983 William Dalziel (d1983)
1973 William Dalziel & Son - Alexander Dalziel (1933 -)
-2015 William Dalziel & Son - Alexander Dalziel (1933 -)|
Janet Dalziel (1933 -) & John Dalziel (1966 -)
Carlisle Journal 2/6/1899
Auchinleck Cemetery Lair Ref: 455
1851 census has John Mitchell, 48, farmer of 68 acres employing 3 Man 1 Boy 2 Women, And 1 Girl with wife Jane (McCormick) 29, dtr Margaret 8, dtr Mary 7, son Hugh 5, 1 Male farm servant. 1 shepherd, 1 Male cow herd and 3 female domestic servants.
The 1861 census shows James Clark 31 grazier of 1200 acres employing 2 labourers, 1 boy and 1 girl. Margaret Clark 23 his cousin also lives there working as a dairymaid along with Elizabeth Currie dairymaid, 1 Male Byre attender, 1 girl herd, and 1 thatcher boarding.
The 1871 census shows James Clark 41 farmer of 1100 acres of which 400 are arable employing 3 men and 2 women along with his wife Maggie (Smith) 26, son James 5, John Clark 42 his brother who is a box maker, 2 ploughmen, 1 dairymaid, 1 female general servant and a visiting herd boy.
The 1881 census shows Margaret Clark 36 and now a widow (James died 26/11/1873) farming 1000 acres 600 arable employing 4 men, 3 girls with the assistance of her son James 16, John Clark 52 her brother-in-law who is a general servant, her niece Helen Clark 12, 3 Male general domestics and 3 female general domestics.
The 1891 census shows widow Margaret 46 farming Common helped by her son James 25, 2 female farm servants, 3 male farm servants, 1 male farm servant who is a boarder and 1 male farm servant who is visiting.
The 1901 census shows Margaret Clark 56 farming Common Farm with her niece Christina I Murray 21, 2 female domestic servants, 1 shepherd, 2 male farm labourers and 1 male cow herd.
James Clark, Common Farm b1865 - d1926 . Noted Blackface sheep breeder at Crossflat, Muirkirk and Carskeoch, Patna ( where he died) . His father was killed by a mineral train, after an accident at a level crossing near the Common, when James was aged nine.
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Kilmarnock Herald and North Ayrshire Gazette March 1926 |
Auchinleck Cemetery Lair Ref: 455
Er Margaret Smith d Carskeoch, Patna 4/4/1919 74, IMO James Clark d Common, Auchinleck 26/11/1873 44, son James Clark of Crossflatt and Carskeoch d Carskeoch, Patna 28/2/1926 60.
Valuation Roll
Valuation Roll
1855 tenant John Mitchell. 1875 prop Col Claude Alexander and by this date the rows have arrived. 1940, owner Mrs Christina Murray or Gordon, tenant W. Dalziel
