demolished to make way for Mansfield Heights
Scotlands Places of 1855/57 describes this as a farmhouse occupied by Alexander Shankland, but his address in the census for 1851 and 1861 is Mansfield.
Alternative spelling Moorfoot
Amalgamated with Waterside
Amalgamated with Waterside
Horse Tax 1797-98 Robert Kerr, Muirfoot, 7 horses, 5 taxed.
1754 baptism 25 September of William Graham son of John Graham and Agnes Gilmour of Muirfoot
Census
1841 John Hair 70, Alexander Vallance 50, David Guthrie 40, John McRae 14, Marion McRae 35, Jane McRae 30, Catherine McKie 13
1851 not found
1861 not found - think was Hugh McKerrow who was a flesher and farmer
1871 Hugh C McKerrow 49, farmer of 52 acres arable with wife Janet 36 and children Cathcart 15, James 14, David 12, Marion 6 Agnes 4, Elizabeth 3, Daniel 1, and servant Agnes Lorimer 20.
1881 still Hugh McKerrow 59, his wife Janet 45, six daughters and three sons farming 156 acres arable employing 2 man and 2 women.
1891 John C Candlish 29, with wife Janet 32, and servant Susan Hunter 16.
1901 William Wight 42 and wife Jean McCririck 34 with son William 4, Also boarder George Samson 15, Tina Turnbull 20, general servant, and David Turnbull 16, farm servant.
Valuation Rolls
Valuation Rolls
1865 prop Michael Thomson, tenant Hugh MacKerrow.
1875 prop Mary Carmichael.
1885 prop Mary McQueen Thomson Carmichael.
1895 tenant John Candlish,
1905 prop Michael Carmichael, tenant William Wight.
1915 tenant James Walker.
1925 prop Alice Carmichael, tenant John Leckie.
1930 prop Edith Hamilton.
1940 prop Edith MacNeill, tenant John Bell.
