Monday, 27 July 2020

Woodend, Auchinleck

Location  "occupies a commanding position along Auchinleck Rd"

Now a private house and is now in the parish of Cumnock since boundary changes about 1900

The 1881 census shows James Welsh 47 and wife Jane (Smith) 40 with three children under 6 farming 900 acres 250 arable. They have a domestic servant Margaret Pearson 28.

James did in 1923 and his  wife in 1928 both at Woodend . They were at Woodend for 48 years

Valuation Roll 
1865 prop Alexander Wills.  
1875 prop Alexander Samson.  (Alexander Samson is son ln law of Alexander  Wills)
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