Over Gelt = Little Gelt
Morag Gordon 2020
Will 1594
Beg, Johnne
22/8/1594
younger in Gelt, parish of Cumnok in Kingskyle
Testament Dative and Inventory
Edinburgh Commissary Court
CC8/8/27
Kirk Session minutes
18 Dec 1709 William Hare in Over Gelt confesses to fornication with Janet Howat
OPR baptisms
Gelt 1759
Margaret Russel, lawful daughter of James Russell in Gelt and Jean Mitchell his spouse was baptised
1 August 1750
Little Gelt 1770
Alexander Wilson son John Wilson spouse Marion Conor(?) in Little Gelt was born 2 Jan and baptised 11 Feb1770
1881 census shows John Craig 61 and wife Ruth 62 farming 90 acres 450 arable employing 3 men, 2 girls and 1 boy. Also sons Thomas 28, Daniel 19, and daughters Ruth 34, and Jane 32. They have a dairymaid Catharine Anderson 33, general servant Annie Hamilton 21 and Hugh Love 14 farm servant. Also Peter Russel 55 a vagrant tinsmith in the census.
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| Kilmarnock Herald and North Ayrshire Gazette 25 May 1934 |
Guelt or Gelt does not appear on the Valuation Roll, (but Nether Guelt does).
The 1891 census shows
In 1895 John Montgomerie , previously in Laigh Tarbeg, Ochiltree is tenant of Nether Guelt. His son James Montgomerie married Maggie Murray from the Muir, Cumnock in 1901 and they moved to Kirkbride, Crosshill, Maybole.
Valuation Roll 1865 prop Marquis of Bute, tenant John Craig until 1930. 1935 prop not shown, tenant Thomas Anderson.
