Photos Bobby Guthrie 2008
Horse Tax 1797-98 James Baird, Farden, one horse
there's also a Blackfarden in 1841 census with James Houston 24
Census
1841 Mungo Douglas 35, wife Jane 30, children John 7, Mary 5, Janet 3, and William 1. Also William McConnel 15, John Carson 11, Helen Murdoch 15, and Mary Cuthbert 15.
1851 Mungo 46 and Jane 41 farming 180 acres and family John 17, Mary 15, Janet 13, William 11, James 9, Hugh 7, Elizabeth 5, Jane 3, Anne 1, and servant Grace McDougall 15.
1861 Mungo Douglas 56 farmer of 148 acres with John Douglas 51, and daughters Mary 25, Elizabeth 15, Jane 13, Anne 11, and Janet 23, and sons William 21, Hugh 17, and Archibald 9. James Richmond 17 is a ploughman.
In 1863 the Douglas family emigrated to New Zealand.
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| 1863 Ayrshire Express |
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| 1863 Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald |
1871 Andrew McCartney of Littlemark. They are Andrew 54 farming 140 acres employing 2 men and a boy. Wife Sarah 57, sons Andrew 24 and Hugh 20, and daughter Marrion 22. Servants are Isabella Demspter 25 and Agnes Meggat 18.
By 1881 the McCartneys had moved to Gatehead, New Cumnock.
By the 1881 census William Crawford, a butcher from Townhead street in Cumnock has moved into Farden.
See also the Breach of Promise case of 1876 between Janet Crawford and William Goldie in the British Newspaper Archive.
1881 William Crawford 57 farming 147 and a half acres employing 1 boy and 3 girls. Also wife Jocobina (Rice) 54, daughter Elizabeth 33, James 27, Alexander 15, and servants Hugh Harvey 15, Margaret Brown 15, Isabella Borland 40, Eliza McLaughlan 13, and Andrew McMillan grandson aged 3.
1891 Cuthbert Nairn 42 farmer and wife Elspeth 37, with servants Janet Kerr 27, dairy maid, Elizabeth Smith 17, and George Douglas 16 (from Sanquhar)
1901 Cuthbert 52 and wife Elspeth (Lennox) 47, with Marrion Hose 21, Annie Hose 18, Robert Armstrong 21, and James Campbell 18.
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| 1926 Aberdeen Press and Journal |
1855 tenant Mungo Douglas.
1865 prop Christina Guthrie Lady Oranmore and Brown, tenant Andrew MacCartney.
1885 tenant Cuthbert Nairn.
1895 prop The Hon. Geoffrey Guthrie.
1905-1940 prop Lord Oranmore and Brown.
1920 tenant John Eskdale.
1935 tenant Matthew Smith.
Cuthbert Nairn and wife Elspeth Lennox (daughter of James Lennox, Auchingee) whom he married in 1885 was the tenant from about 1886 (Slater's directory - 1905 (VR on SP)
The Howat family farmed at Netherton then Farden. Previous generations farmed Whitehill Cumnock and Muirston Ochiltree.
The family moved from Netherton to Farden about 1931. The first year he was there they wintered hogs for James Gourlay of Gourly farming company. The second year he was approached by Dalmeny estates (Lord Roseberry) and offered "a few shillingsmore" he accepted. Jame Gourly said he would match the price but father had principles and did not go back. The hog wintering was taken by Dalmeny estates every year until the year my father died in 2000.The following year (2001) it was again let to the Gourly family through myself. (Ian Howat)
about 1930
Cuthbert Nairn and wife Elspeth Lennox (daughter of James Lennox, Auchingee) whom he married in 1885 was the tenant from about 1886 (Slater's directory - 1905 (VR on SP)
The Howat family farmed at Netherton then Farden. Previous generations farmed Whitehill Cumnock and Muirston Ochiltree.
The family moved from Netherton to Farden about 1931. The first year he was there they wintered hogs for James Gourlay of Gourly farming company. The second year he was approached by Dalmeny estates (Lord Roseberry) and offered "a few shillingsmore" he accepted. Jame Gourly said he would match the price but father had principles and did not go back. The hog wintering was taken by Dalmeny estates every year until the year my father died in 2000.The following year (2001) it was again let to the Gourly family through myself. (Ian Howat)
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| 1930s |
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| Jessie in the garden at Farden 1940s |
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| Jessie with a show cow probably at Netherton in the 1920s |
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| Jessie (Britton) Howat and son Geordie at Farden 1930s |
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| Howat children at Netherton about 1920 |
