Location Dormiston and Loudonston
Transferred from the parish of Ochiltree to the parish of Stair (Hay Shennan report 1889)
Horse Tax 1797-98 John Curray, Dormieston, 3 horses
In Scottish Places.info referring to Ochiltree in 1882 -85
" ...Hoodstone was tenanted from the 13th till the present century by a family by the name of Hood. descendants, it is said, of the famous English outlaw, Robin Hood."
Census
The 1881 census shows James Hood 63, and his wife Anne 55, nine daughters and one son. The farm is 309 acres arable employing 3 men and 4 women.
In 1888 William Hood, late farmer of Hoodston died at Dormiston aged 80 years. ((Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald)
1891 James 72, and Anne 65 and seven of their daughters, three of whom are teachers, and farm servants Thomas Jamieson 26, Andrew McCrindle 24, and Robert Hogg 18.
Census
1841 William Hood 65, farmer with Sarah 55, James 20, Agness 20, Margaret 17, Elizabeth 15, and Thomas McNair 20, silk manufacturer. (Another son was farming at Hoodston, William Hood)
1851 James Hood 30 and wife Ann 30 are farming 140 acres and employing 6 labourers. They have one daughter, Isabella, under 1 and niece Grace Hood 6, and five servants. Janet Hamilton 20, Jane Eadie 15, James Currie 20, James Gebbie 15, and Elisabeth Blaney 30.
1861 and the farm is now 250 acres. James and Anne have increased their family with Sarah 8, Margaret 7, Anne 5, Jane L 3, Elisabeth 2 and niece Grace 16 is a domestic servant. Margaret Ramsay 22, dairymaid, Sarah Kennedy 18, Hugh Brown 16 and John Harrison 15.
1871 The farm is now increased to 309 acres and the family has also increased with William 9, Charlotte 8, Helen 6, Mary 4, and Fanny Walker Hood 3, and Jessie under 1 . William Hood 63, James' brother is described as a fundholder, Jean Robertson 18 is a domestic, Peter Murdoch 23 , ploughman, John McCully 25, labourer and James Morrisson 18 visitor.
The 1881 census shows James Hood 63, and his wife Anne 55, nine daughters and one son. The farm is 309 acres arable employing 3 men and 4 women.
In 1888 William Hood, late farmer of Hoodston died at Dormiston aged 80 years. ((Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald)
1891 James 72, and Anne 65 and seven of their daughters, three of whom are teachers, and farm servants Thomas Jamieson 26, Andrew McCrindle 24, and Robert Hogg 18.
1901 and Dormiston is in the parish of Stair. Annie Hood 44, with sisters Jeanie 42, Eliza 40, Helen 33, and Charlotte 36, a school teacher, are farming. They have farm servants Matthew McColm 26, and William Craig 18.
From the monumental inscriptions at Stair churchyard, Helen married James Sloan and continued to live at Dormiston.
VR 1865 prop. Lady Boswell, tenant James Hood.
1874 James Hood tenant of lands Dormiston and Loudonston
1895 James Hood is tenant of Dormiston and Loudonston, Stair. (Sarah Hood or Morrison, widow, is proprietor of the house at Trabbochmains, she married Robert Morrison Esq of Trabbochmains in August 1844)
