Location 55 28 17N 4 14 14W
Auchinleck Churchyard 1866
This is a transcript from the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald from January 27, 1866.
From and old grave-stone that has been recently repaired, we learn that David Boswell of Craigstone has been laird of several farms in that neighbourhood, all of which are taken up more or less with the iron-works. The following is the inscription on the stone at the south-west corner of the old Burying Ground. -"Here lyeth the corps of the deceased David Boswell, Laird of Craigstone, Pathead, Dickstone, Braehead, Burnside, and Bello-Miln, who departed this Life Upon The 30 Day of Novr. in the Year of God 1728, Leaving Behind Him Jean Hunter, His Spouse, 3 Sons and 5 Daughters. Here leyes His consecrated Dust, Whose Constant Care It Was Oblidging to All, Compassionate to the Destryest, Useful to Serve His Friends, Forgiven to His Foes."One of his daughters married the Laird of Knockcreen, and is now represented by the Boswells of Garallan. Through another of the daughters they are represented in the family of Gibbs, whose great great great grandson, Sir Alexander Boswell Gibb, has recently renewed the stone.
Horse Tax 1797-98 William McKerrow Craigston, 3 horses .
Rented Lands, Barony of Auchinleck *- p215
Craikston or Craigston, acquired from William Logan in 1726, included a part of Burnside. It was let to Thomas Dickie, whose grass crop was rouped in 1783, to Alexander Dunbar and Andrew McTurk for grazing in 1783, to David Kennedy who was sequestered in 1786, and to William McKerrow in Woodside in 1786 and 1797. Its houses and offices were rebuilt in 1789.
*The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb,
Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
Edited by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn
Edinburgh University Press and Yale University Press 1998
The History of Auchinleck Village & Parish - Dane Love
p311
Craigston - Farm demolished and site occupied by Craigstone House when Lugar Ironworks were developed.
1601 George Reid
1728 Craigston Estate
c1760 Auchinleck Estate
1792 Auchinleck Estate - William McKerrow (1733-1807)
-1845 Auchinleck Estate - James Brown
Gone . Village of Lugar built on it, with the Ironworks etc too. Dwelling house remains.
Valuation Roll
1855 prop. Sir James Boswell, tenant John MacCormick. No prop. or tenant shown for farm in subsequent years but in 1855 houses, presumably miner's rows, begin to appear.
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| David McKerrow 1791 to 1884 |
