Dalleagles, New Cumnock

Angela Brown ca 1990

Location 55 22 09N, 4 15 14W.

Horse Tax 1785 Hugh Mitchell of Daleagles 1 horse  (only 4 taxed horses recorded in New Cumnock)

Farm Horse Tax 1797-98 John Paterson, Daleagles, 3 horses.

1841 Census - Daleagles

John Shoman  farmer + wife Jane and 5 children +1fs (woman) + 2 agr labs

Also on this census  is John Thomson joiner, Marion Thomson and Jean Thomson & 2 merchants

1891 Census -Dalleagles

James Kirk farmer and 4 children + 1 Dom serv woman and 2 merchants

Probate: Euphemia Kirk, Dalleagles Farm New Cumnock died 19/1/1898 at Daleagles aforesaid intestate. Conf granted at Ayr 18th June to John Kirk, nurseryman Gillfield Terrace Dumfries executor

Probate: James Kirk farmer Dalleagles Farm New Cumnock died 24/4/1898 at Dalleagles testate. Conf granted at Ayr 13th June to John Kirk nurseryman Gillfield Terrace Dumfries executor

James Watson (1905) came from Tighnabruaich

Valuation Rolls 1855:

Proprietor -  Heirs of the late Alexander Guthrie of Mount

Lands.       -  Daleagles 

Tenant.     -   James Drennan

1865 prop Lady Oranmore and Brown, tenant William Stewart.  

1875 showing by the number of houses that a community had formed.  

1895 prop The Hon. Geoffrey Guthrie. 

1905 prop Lord Oranmore and Brown, tenant James Watson.


1885 Valuation Rolls Owner - Baroness Canmore and Brown Christina Guthrie

farmed by Richard Brown in the 1990s