Location neighbouring Hayhill
Horse Tax 1797-98 James McCosh , 2 horses .
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| Caledonian Mercury 1797 |
Scotlands Places of 1855 describes a single storey thatched dwelling with farm offices. The farm house at Hayhill has a slated roof.
The History of Ochiltree Village & Parish - Dane Love - p332
Sinclairston
1797 - James MacCosh
c1820 Drumjoan Estate - William Aird (d1830)
1851-1854 Drumjoan Estate - James Kay
1894 In ruins
p73
'The small clachan of Sinclairston was built on the roadside on the farm of Sinclairston, all part of Drumjoan Estate. In 1855, when the Ordnance Surveyors visited to make the first detailed maps of the area, they described the village as "comprising a few cottages, one storey slated and in good repair. The property of Robert Campbell [of Drumjoan]". One of the buildings also housed a small school. Some houses were subsequently built on what was Polquhairn estate, including Beechbank. The ordnance Survey map of 1858 only shows five homes, plus Sinclairston farm itself and Beechland, perhaps three cottages joined together, located on Drumjoan road'.
p73
'By 1894, when the Ordnance Survey map-makers compiled their next edition, one of the houses at Beechland was demolished, and Sinclairston farm had fallen into ruins'.
(Beechland renamed Beechbank pre 1908)
| Census 1841 Several households are at Sinclairston and it is not clear which ones were on the farm as no occupations are given. (there are on Freecen and James Kay 36 is the only one described as a farmer KMcM) After his brother William Kay and family moved back to Hayhill, there does not appear to have been a house used as the base to farm the surrounding land. The Valuation Rolls show multiple stewards for the lands of Sinclairston. 1861 William Kay 62 is farming 155 acres with wife Isabella and family previously in the neighbouring farmhouse of Hayhill. They employ George Murray 20 and James Miller as agricultural labourers and ploughman John Gibson 20. Valluation Rolls 1855 prop. Robert Campbell; tenant James Kay. 1865 prop. Robert Campbell; tenant James MacCosh (land of Drumjoan and part of Sinclairston), tenant Robert Smith (land of Whitehill and part of Sinclairston). 1875 prop. William Campbell (Whitehill and part of Sinclairston, Drumjohn and part of Sinclairston), J P Wilson ( land Sinclairston); tenant Jean Finlay (land Sinclairston), James MacCosh (Drumjohn and part of Sinclairston), Robert Smith (Whitehill and part of Sinclairston). 1885 prop. William Campbell (Whitehill and part of Sinclairston); tenant George Douglas Brown (Drumjohn and part of Sinclairston and father of the author of The House with the Green Shutters). 1895 tenant John Murdoch (Drumsmudden and part of Sinclairston), David Purdie (Drumjohn and part of Sinclairston), Hugh Smith (Whitehill and part of Sinclairston). 1915 prop. Lord Skerrington; tenant Hugh Rorison (Drumsmudden and part of Sinclairston). 1925 tenant Hugh Rorison, John Smith (Whitehill and part of Sinclairston). 1940 prop. David Purdie (Drumjohn and part of Sinclairston), prop. Hugh Rorison (Drumsmudden and part of Sinclairston); tenant John Smith (Whitehill and part of Sinclairston). | ||||||||||||||||
