Craigshiel, New Cumnock

Location also Craigshield

2005 Kevan Aitken

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1921  Mrs Robert Stitt was Annie Hamilton 

Census

1841 census Craigshield Robert McKnight 45 farmer wife Mirrin (Tweedie) 2 daughters, Margaret 20 and Jane 18, 2 servants, John Tweedie 40, and Elizabeth Sharp 12

1851 Census - Craigshiel, New Cumnock

Robert McNight 65 - farmer of 110 acres wife Susannah (Rankin Campbell) 31, and son Gavin under 1.  Servants are Mary Wilson 21, Grace Murdoch 15, and James Campbell 32, (brother in law)

Susanna's father was Gavin Campbell from Linn, New Cumnock.

John O'Groat Journal April 1851

The North British Mail reported that there had been a number of burglaries in the area preceding this, one being at the grocer shop of the Hillhouse family in Schaw.

And later that year.....

The John O'Groat Journal of June 18th has an article that reports the outcome of the court case with the two main protagonists each being deported for twenty one years.

1861 Census - Craigshiel, New Cumnock

Robert McKnight 74 - farmer of 350 acres emp 1 labourer. Wife Susanna 36, son Gavin 10, and Barbara Home 17, domestic servant.

Susanna Rankine McKnight married John Lee in New Cumnock in 1862.

The census of 1871 finds Gavin McKnight age 20, born in New Cumnock as a grocer in Govan, Hutchesontown, Lanarkshire.

1871 Census - Craigshiel, New Cumnock

Robert Ferguson 39 - shepherd, wife Margaret 39, and son  William 14

1881 Census - Craigshield Farm, New Cumnock

Robert Ferguson 48, shepherd and widower. Servants Jane Paterson 24 and Ann Ferguson 3 

1891 - Craigshiel New Cumnock

Robert Ferguson 57- shepherd and widower, Jane Paterson 34, housekeeper and Ann Ferguson servants daughter 13.

1901 - Craigshiel Farm, New Cumnock

Robert Ferguson - shepherd and widower. Jane Patterson 45, housekeeper and Lanes Armstrong 14, shepherd.


Valuation Roll

1855 tenant Robert MacKnight.  

1865 prop Marquis of Bute.  

1895 tenant John Latta.
1905 Proprietor Marquis of Bute Tenant James Hope