Commissariot of Glasgow:
John Murdoch in Thirdpart Parish of Auchinleck. 18/9/1669
Adam Murdoch in Thirdpart Parish of Auchinleck. 28/5/1686
Location 55 27 56N, 4 20 01W
Rented Lands - The Barony of Auchinleck * (Appendix 1 Pages 219 & 220)
Thirdpart - sometimes known as Roadinghead of Thirdpart was let to John Reid in 1782 and 1791. In 1791 it was let for three years for grazing horses and black cattle to David Murdoch who was then in the village and would later rent Dalsalloch West. Its house was occupied by Catherine McFarlane, widow of James Johnson, in 1792 and 1795. It was afterwards let to William Smith in 1795 and 1798.
*The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb,
Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
Edited by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn
Edinburgh University Press and Yale University Press 1998
The History of Auchinleck Village & Parish - Dane Love
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1774-1791 Auchinleck Estate - John Reid
1791 Auchinleck Estate - William Smith
1793 Auchinleck Estate - David Murdoch
1875-1880 Auchinleck Estate - James Smith (1803-1880)
1880-c1902 Auchinleck Estate - William Smith (1836-1906)
Auchinleck Estate - William Smith (1872-1925)
1906-1925 Auchinleck Estate - John Peden Smith (1871-1945)
1934 John Peden Smith (1871-1945)
1941-1962 Baird & Dalmellington Ltd. - John Peden Smith Jr. ( -1962)
1962-1996 National Coal Board - Alexander Anderson and James Anderson
1996-1999 Alexander Anderson and James Anderson
1999-2015 Mungo Howat of Stevenston
Auchinleck Parish OPRs
Janet Murdoch aka Reid age 79 formerly residing in Thirdpart died 19/9/1781. Wife of John Reid. Cause - old age. Buried Ochiltree
John Murdoch young man age 8 formerly residing in Thirdpart died 16/6/1782 - smallpox. Buried Sorn. Died in house of John Reid.
John Smith formerly residing in Thirdpart buried 2/5/1833. Hearse used.
The 1851 census for Thirdpart shows widower (late wife Jean Sloan) James Smith 48 farmer of 120 acres employing 3 men and a boy assisted by his son William age 14 who is employed on the farm, daughter Jane 12 who is employed at home, 1 housemaid, 1 ploughman, 1 agricultural labourer who is also a woodcutter, 1 cattle herd and 2 female house servants.
The 1861 census for Thirdpart shows James Smith 58 farming 200 acres employing 2 men & 2 boys assisted by his son William 24, daughter Jean 22, 1 ploughman, 1 male servant, 1 dairymaid, and 1 female domestic servant.
The 1871 census for Thirdpart shows James Smith 69 farming 260 acres of which 196 are arable employing 1 man, 1 boy, 3 women. He is assisted by his son William 34 and William's wife Ellen 34 (Peden) who is housekeeper, and who have 3 children, James 6, William 2 and John P. an infant. 2 male farm servants and 3 female domestics also live there.
The 1871 census for Thirdpart Byre shows Alexander Dixton an 87yr old vagrant and former soldier (born in Gibraltar) and his wife Sarah Dixton 84 sleeping there.
James Smith died in 1880
1881 Census for Thirdpart shows William Smith 44 farming 225 acres arable employing 2 men and 2 women. He is assisted by his wife Ellen P 44 and 5 children under 16. They have four employees living in - John Train and William Miller farm servants, Janet Wilson dairymaid and Elizabeth McLaghlan a domestic.
The 1891 census for Thirdpart shows William Smith 54 farming Thirdpart with his wife Ellen 54, 2 sons James 26 & John 20, 2 dtrs Margaret 18 & Jane 14, 2 female domestic servants and 1 male servant.
The 1901 census for Thirdpart shows son John Peden Smith 30 now farming Thirdpart along with his wife Marion 29 (Symington Wilson - Findlayston Ochiltree) and their 1 month old son William, 1 monthly nurse, 1 ploughman, 2 male farm servants, 1 dairymaid and 1 byrewoman
Kilmarnock Herald April 1934
Probate: 23 Dec 1890 - EIK (10 yrs after 1st Conf)
To conf of James Smith farmer Thirdpart Parish of Auchinleck who died 29/11/1880 at Thirdpart aforesaid testate granted at Ayr to William Smith farmer Thirdpart aforesaid executor
Probate:
Wilson or Smith Marion Symington of 93 Loudoun Street Mauchline widow died 10/3/1948. Conf. Of William Smith and James Wilson Smith and John Peden Smith, farmers
William Smith, 2nd son of William Smith, was ordained as a minister and died in 1927 at Treeshill.
Burial: Auchinleck Cemetery Lair Ref: 195
1/3/1828 Er Jas Smith, Thirdpart IMO bro John d in inf Aug 1814, fa Wm 19/3/1925 53, bro John 28/4/1833 13, w Jean Sloan 12/-/1828 34.
Lair Ref: 196 - Er Wm Smith fr. Thirdpart 25/9/1906 70, IMO fa Jas 29/11/1880 77, mo Jean Sloan 12/6/1838 34, sis Jane d Hall, Kirkconnel 22/3/1877 38 (hus John Baird), s Rev Wm Smith d Treeshill 30/1/1927 58, w Helen Peden d Marr, Thornhill 16/3/1934 97, uncle Wm Smith d Burnhouse 23/3/1859 38, gmo Mgt Peden d Burnhouse 24/3/1864 80, aunt Mgt Smith d Burnhouse 21/7/1873 59, aunt Agnes Smith d Burnhouse 13/6/1896 81 IMO Wm d in inf 29/10/1902 6wks (fa Jas Smith)
Described as Thirdpart of Treeshill.
1865 prop Lady Boswell.
1885 tenant William Smith.
1915 tenant John Smith.
1920 prop John Smith.
1935 prop John Smith, tenant John Smith.
From 1962 farmed by the Anderson family , who also had Killoch ,Ochiltree. Now merged with Stevenston - the farm next door.
The Thirdpart farm steading can be seen immediately in front of the Barony Power Station , just to the left of the A frame. The photo shows work starting for the construction of a new escape shaft after the fatal accident at Barony Colliery.
