also called Crofthead of Garallan
OPR 1759
John and David Main, lawful sons of William Main in Croftead of Garrallan and Agnes Matheson his spouse were baptised 14th March 1759
1851 Census - Crofthead, Cumnock
Thomas & Janet Wardrop (ms Vallance) - farmer of 80 acres + 5 ch + 1 house servant
1861 Census
Thomas & Janet Wardrop - farmer of 100 acres emp 1 man bit (sic) his own family + 6 ch
1871 Census
Thomas & Janet Wardrop- farmer of 100 acres all arable + 5 children
1881 Census
Thomas & Janet Wardrop - farmer of 100 acres arable emp 1 man 2 women
+ 3 children. The man employed was John Kay who married Lizzie Wardrop.
1891 Census
Thomas & Janet Wardrop - farmer + 2 ch & 1 g/daughter Janet Fullerton + 1 gen Dom (woman) + 1 farm servant John Kay
1901 Census
John Kay & wife Lizzie + 1 farm servant (man) and 1 gen domestic (woman)
NB. John Kay previously worked as a farm servant to Thomas Wardrop and married Thomas’s daughter Lizzie Wardrop in 1894 in Cumnock.
1911 census 1911 census has John Kay 52 farmer, Elizabeth Kay 56 married 16 years no children, Janet Hodge 19 dairymaid b Cumnock
Joseph Morrison 25 ploughman Ireland
Valuation Roll
1855 prop Mrs H D Boswell, tenant Thomas Wardross (sic). 1865 prop Patrick Boswell, tenant Thomas Wardrope. 1885 tenant Thomas Wardrop. 1905 tenant John Kay. 1915 prop John Boswell. 1940 tenant William Stevenson.
Probate 30/12/1892 at Ayr
Thomas Wardrop farmer Crofthead Parish of Cumnock who died 28/6/1892 at Crofthead aforesaid intestate granted to George Wardrop farmer Crofthead his son.
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Crofthead farm 1950s |
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Oats being harvested in the Big Moss field, Crofthead 1940s. Cairn farm lies beyond the woods.
David Stevenson ( Changue ) took on Crofthead in the mid 1920s when the Kerrs left for Duchra, Coylton Amalgamated with Changue in 1979 when parlour was installed at Changue and the two dairy herds combined.
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