Monday, 3 August 2020

Culcreoch, New Cumnock

Also Coalcreoch or Coal Creoch

The Feuding Hamiltons - Edinburgh 28th June 1642

In Blaeu Atlas of 1654 as Culcrioc

No Farm Horse Tax Found

Location

Was taken for opencast,  reinstated land now part of Laight

Alan Patrick


New Cumnock OPRs
08/07/1733  Jean daughter to Allan Logan & Margaret Moodie in Coalcreoch


The Paterson family farming there from 1841 census with John Paterson and wife Elspeth Gibb
In 1851 census John Paterson age 55 is a Farmer Of 70 Acres. In 1861 census John Paterson 66 is a Farmer Of 90 Acres Employing 4 Labourers. By 1871 son Gavin Paterson is a Farmer 90 Acres ,70 Arable. 
by 1881 census Gavin Paterson is Farmer (120 Ac. Employ 1 Man & 2 Girls). He is still there in 1891 and 1901 censuses and dies aged 80 in 1919 in Lochingerroch.




                                                      Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 3/4/1885





                                                            Irvine Times. 6/1/1888
                
 

Gordons moved out in 1938 to Dornal
Gordons at Culcreoch 1930s



                                                               Stirling Observer 31/10/1940





Patrick family 



Valuation Rolls
1895

HORATIO ROSS MACCRAE*
Proprietor
HOUSE AND FARM OF CULCREOCH
NEW CUMNOCK
and
GAVIN PATERSON
Tenant
HOUSE AND FARM OF CULCREOCH
NEW CUMNOCK
1895


1905 and 1915
HORATIO ROSS MACRAE
Proprietor
HOUSE AND FARM OF CULCREOCH
NEW CUMNOCK
and 
DANIEL CRAIG THORBURN
Tenant Occupier
HOUSE AND FARM OF CULCREOCH
NEW CUMNOCK

1920 
ALEXANDER PEARSON
Tenant Occupier
HOUSE AND FARM OF CULCREOCH
NEW CUMNOCK
no names recorded in 1925, 1930 or 1935
1940  Robert Kerr
Tenant
HOUSE AND FARM CULCREOCH
NEW CUMNOCK

*Colonel Horatio Ross Macrae of Clunes 1846-1931 owned a lot of property in New Cumnock from 1895