Location 55 26 44N, 4 15 24W
Horse Tax 1797-98 John Brown, 2 horses
Farmhouse now used for Shire Housing
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| Caledonian Mercury 1797 |
John Simpson died 1835 farmer at Netherthird, then his son Alexander, then his daughter Helen, then his grandson Robert Allan
1841 Census -Netherthird Farm, Old Cumnock Alexander Simpson - farmer + Margaret Simson (mother) + 2 other Simsons + 1 farm servant (woman) + 1 agricultural labourer (man)
1851 Census Helen Allan (Simpson)- farmer of 42 acres + 4 sons and 1 daughter.
Employing 9 men, 1 woman and 1 boy
1861 Census Helen Allan - farmer of 42 acres + 4 sons and 1 dtr
Employing 9 men, 1 woman, 1 boy
1871 Census Robert Allan - 34, farmer of 50 acres all arable + mother Helen & brother Alexander, a watchmaker Employing 1 General Servant (woman)
1881 CensusRobert Allan - farmer of 55 acres + wife Jeanie (McDonald) + 3 children and 1 General Servant (a woman)
1891 Census
Ellen W (Williamson) Wight - farmer + 4 children + Samuel Wight, visitor, sheep dealer + Agnes Wight, visitor + 1 shepherd and 2 domestic servants (women)
Isabella Wilson b1860 Died 15/10/1939 Netherthird Farm - Source Cumnock Connections
Valuation Rolls
1865 prop William Campbell, tenant Thomas Allan. 1875 props William & Robert Campbell, tenant Robert Allan. 1885 prop William Campbell, tenant John Wight. 1895 tenant Mrs Wight. 1905 tenant Marcus Bain. 1915 prop Lord Skerrington. 1925 tenant James Bain. 1940 tenant Agnes Wilson.
In the 1940s Robert Fraser Smith rented it.
