| Location Between Little Spierston and Plotcock Various spellings: Gargown, Gargoun, Gargowan Farm Horse Tax 1797-1798 Gargown - 6 horses - 3 liable in duty - 6s ScotlandsPlaces 1855/57 Gargown - A farm steading, dwelling house and offices - partially slated - one storey and in good repair. Property of John Wilson. The History of Ochiltree Village & Parish - Dane Love p319 Gargowan 60 acres in 1851 1619 Ochiltree Estate 1774-1790 Ochiltree Estate - James Sloan (1744-1790) 1790-1812 Ochiltree Estate - William Sloan (1771-1837) 1812-1837 Ochiltree Estate - William Sloan (1771-1837) 1837-1886 Polquhairn Estate - James Sloan (1801-1886) 1886- Polquhairn Estate - Wilhelmina Sloan (1840-1926) 1899 Polquhairn Estate - Jane Kerr & John Kerr (1858-1939) 1914 Walker of Bellsbank - John Kerr (1858-1939) 1925-1930 Walker of Bellsbank - James S. Ferguson 1940 Walker of Bellsbank - James S. Ferguson -1976 1976-2011 James Hunter 2011-2017 Ann Hunter Census 1841 James Sloan 36 farmer, with Jane 30, Mina 1, John 20, and servants Hugh Hair 15, Elizabeth Dixon 25 and Agness Gibson 10. 1851 James is 49 and Jane 40, farming 60 acres and employing 2 labourers. Mina is 10, Cuningham 8, a little girl, Jane 5, and Mary 2. John Sloan 32 brother, and Mina Dickie 16, house servant 1861 1871 and the farm is now 75 acres arable. James is 69 and Jane 60, and at home are Mina 30, Jane 25 and Mary 22. they employ a labourer but he didn't live on the farm. |
Their two daughters Mina 40 and Jane 35 are also living with them along with a domestic servant.
1891 and Mina 50 has taken over the farm with her sister Jane 45. They have John Kerr 32, George Wilson 15, and Jane S Thom 15 as farm and general servants.
In 1901 Mina 60, is joint farmer with John Kerr 43 her brother in law and sister Jane Kerr 54. They have William Limont 17 and Sarah Hamilton 16 as farm and domestic servants.
Valuation Rolls
1855 - Lands of Gargowan prop. J P Wilson; tenant James Sloan. 1905 prop. T P Wilson.
1895 - House & Farm of Gargowan prop Isabella Pettigrew Wilson & Thomas Pettigrew
Wilson of Gargowan, Ayr.
tenant: Mrs Janet Kerr or Sloan, Wilhelmina Sloan
& John Kerr, farmers
1925 - House & Farm of Gargowan prop. Miss Jane Walker; tenant James S. Ferguson.
1940 - House & Farm of Gargowan prop. William James Pettigrew Wilson Walker
Tenant: James S Ferguson
