Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Meikle Creoch, New Cumnock

Location

On the market in 2022   has holiday lets


Alternate names Big Creoch, Creoch.

Meikle Creoch in 1974 from Geograph by Hamish Bain

In the Hastings/Mitchell family for well over 100 years 

Horse Tax 1797-98, John Hastings, Muckle Creoch, 5 horses , 2 taxed.  4s

Some Baptisms in Creoch - New Cumnock OPRs
07/02/1714   John son to James Osborn & Jean Hetrick in Creoch
06/10/1728   Andrew son to James McCrae & Jean McCrone in Creoch
03/08/1735   Margaret daughter to James McCrae & Margaret McCrone in Meikle Creoch

1841 Census - Big Creoch, New Cumnock
Robert Hastings farmer

1851 census
Meikle Creoch
John Hastings (Robert's brother) farm overseer

1861 Census
Meikle Creoch, New Cumnock
nephew John Hastings 38 farmer of 150 acres with wife Christina Proudfoot
he died there 1904

1881 census John Hastings 57 farming 160 acres 110 arable employing 1 man 2 girls and 1 boy. He has two daughters Janet C. 20, and Christina 18.  Also in the household are Jane P. Hastings, granddaughter 3, Janet S. Brown 19 dairymaid, James McLean 18 farm servant, and Agnes Park

1891 census 15 general domestic.
Creoch farm
John Hastings 68 and daughter Christina Mitchell (her husband Thomas F Mitchell is at Lochingerroch with his widowed mother)

1901 census
Creoch farm
Thomas F Mitchell 37 and wife Christina (Hastings) 38 6 children one relation visitor 4 servants
John Mitchell 10, Christina P Mitchell 8 Hugh Mitchell 7, Jane Mcc H P Mitchell 6, Janet Mitchell 4
Mary H Mitchell 2
Jane P Hastings 23 Visitor Janet Sloan 18 Servant kitchen maid Helen S Watson 17 Servant byre woman,  William R Downie 12 Servant farm servant, James Wight 17 Servant ploughman

Valuation Roll 
1875 prop Marquis of Bute, tenant John Hastings. 
1905 tenant Thomas Mitchell.  
1920 prop Thomas Mitchell.  
1930 tenant Hugh Mitchell
1930 Hugh Mitchell tenant /occupier
1940 Hugh Mitchell tenant /occupier