Thursday, 23 July 2020

Drumbrochan, Old Cumnock

Location


Ruins of Drumbrochan, Kevan Aitken 2021

Horse Tax 1797-98  Hugh McClatchie one horse ( Drumbrockan )
(gravestone in Cumnock old cemetery Hugh Mcclatchie Masonic Drumbrochan)


Hugh Findlay died at Drumbroch in 1857. He was a farmer and cattle dealer at Drumbrochan Farm, Cumnock and  innkeeper at the Wheatsheaf Inn in the Square

1861 Census - Dumbrookon, Old Cumnock
James McLanachan - farmer of 360 acre emp 1 man, 2 women (farm servants)  & 1 boy, wife Margaret (Robertson) and 3 children
NB. James McLanachachan previously farmed Milzeoch
1871 Census - Dumbrocker
James Nimmo ( - farmer of 20 acres arable emp 2 labourer, wife Jane (ms McCrone)  7 children
1881 Census - Drumbrocken Farm
James Nimmo - farmer of 30 acres all arable, wife Jean, 2 children, 2 grandchildren ( George Nimmo & James Murdoch)
1891 Census - Drumbrahan
James Nimmo and wife Jane - farmer, 2 children, granddaughter Janet Nimmo, daughter Margaret and her husband Robert Maider (a slater) and their children.
1901 Census - Drumbrochan
George Nimmo 31(grandson of James)  farmer and his wife Isabella + 4 children and 1 general servant (domestic) woman

Valuation Rolls : prop Marquis of Bute
1855 -  Hugh Finlay  - tenant/occupier - Drumbrockan
1865 - James Nimmo - tenant /occupier - Land Drumbreckeir, Old Cumnock
1875 - Isaac Nimmo -   tenant/occupier -  Land Drumbrecken inc Park (can find no record of an Isaac Nimmo. I think it must be James KM)
1875 - James Nimmo -  tenant/occupier -  Park at Cumnock
1905 - tenant John Napier 
1915 - tenant James Napier

Probate: 
Nimmo, Jane McCrone or, widow of James Nimmo farmer Drumbroken Farm, Parish of Old Cumnock died 13/11/1900 at Old Manse Auchinleck intestate. Conf granted at Ayr 12 March to Agnes Nimmo 249 Crown Street Glasgow her daughter executrix dative qua next-of-kin