Amalgamated . Map of location between Hill of Ochiltree and Watston , just above the village.
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The History of Ochiltree Village & Parish - Dane Love p331 Pool c1770 Ochiltree Estate - Thomas Walker (1751-1833) -1784 Ochiltree Estate - James Paterson (d1784) 1797-1812 Ochiltree Estate - William Paterson (1764-1837) 1812-1837 Dalblair Estate - William Paterson (1764-1837) 1855 Alexander Ross heirs Census 1841 The Paterson family, Andrew 50, Margaret 35, John 7 and Margaret 2. also Jane Reid 15 and Katherine King 70 This appears to be the last farmer at Pool. 1851 There are two households of the Gillies family at Pool Cottage, Robert Gillies 30, a farm labourer with wife Agnes 28 and son John 1. John Gillies 42, wife Isabella 38 and Agnes 14, Janet 7, William 6, and James 3 1861 Ami Reid 35, and hand sewer, and her children Martha Aitken 7 and William Smith 2 and the Pedens Hugh 43 and agricultural labourer and sons William 11, James 8, Hugh 6, and John 4, and daughter Agnes 12, and servant Mary Clemit 65. And another Peden family, John 47 a road surfacemen and his wife and three children. 1871 Agnes Murdoch 70 a pauper and her grand daughter Agnes Hay 5 Andrew McLelland 69 a ploughman and his wife Violet 70 1881 John McCulloch 44 a green grocer with wife, daughter , and a lodger with his wife, John Craig and he is a hawker of soft goods born in Greece. 1891 James Broatch 70 and wife Mary 71, he is an agricultural labourer. 1901 James Manderson 23 and family, he is a coal miner The Rafferty family - William is a pit sinker. Valuation Rolls 1895 is the first reference to a house at Pool until 1920 when the proprietor of land at Pool is Robert Baird. He owns house, land, woodlands and shootings. In the VR of 1935 the address changes to 'House Pool Watston' still owned by Robert Baird |
