also Rigfoot
1663
CHARLES MITCHELL
4 / 8 / 1663
IN RIGFUTT, PARISH OF NEW CUMNOCK
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GLASGOW COMMISSARY COURT
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Some Births/Baptisms
15/6/1707 - Robert son to Thomas Howatson and Isabel Black in Rigfoot
19/10/1725 - Janet dtr to John Wilson and Jean Wight in Rigfoot
29/9/1728 - William son to John Muir and Sarah Howatson in Riggfoot
18/4/1753 - Jean dtr to Hugh Farquhar and Jean Wilson in Rigfoot
23/6/1755. - William son to Hugh Farquhar and Jean Wilson in Rigfoot
VR 1855 prop William Haddow. 1895 prop Mrs Margaret Falconer or Haddow. 1920 tenant James Hyslop. 1930 tenant William Wylie. 1935 tenant Andrew Mackie.
Kilmarnock Herald & North Ayrshire Gazette. 8/2/1934
The 1841 census shows Elizabeth Farquhar 75 proprietor with William Haddow 40 managing the farm, manservant John Scott 45, 2 male servants, 1 female farm servant and Sarah Rankin 20 (no status)
The 1851 census shows William Haddow 52 farmer of 135 acres emp 4 labourers. John Scott 57 his brother-in-law is a farm servant, his sister Mary Haddow 57 is housekeeper, his widowed aunt Elizabeth Rankine 89, Hannah Riddle 60 a dressmaker, 1 female house servant and 1 Male agricultural labourer.
1861 census Rigfoot shows William Haddow 62 farmer of 135 acres with wife Margaret (Falconer) 25 and son William 3, 1 dairymaid, 1 housemaid and 1 agricultural labourer.
1861 census Rigfoot shows William Haddow 62 farmer of 135 acres with wife Margaret (Falconer) 25 and son William 3, 1 dairymaid, 1 housemaid and 1 agricultural labourer.
In the 1871 census William Haddow 72 is farming 160 acres of which 12 are arable employing 4 men and 1 boy with his wife Margaret 35 and 3 female general servants.
The 1881 census shows Margaret Haddow now a widow 45 Landed Proprietrux and farmer of 160 acres 100 arable employing 1 man, 1 boy, and 3 women.
The 1881 census shows Margaret Haddow now a widow 45 Landed Proprietrux and farmer of 160 acres 100 arable employing 1 man, 1 boy, and 3 women.
Also at Riggfoot are her son William F. Haddow 23 and four servants, Isabella Adair 25, Annie Adair 23, general dairy, David Miller 15 , farm servant, and Jane McLauchlin 15, house maid.
The 1891 census shows David Weir 38 is now farming at Riggfoot Farm along with his sister Janet 32, 1 female servant Mary Stewart 19, and 1 male servant, John Pearson 15. They had moved here from Braehead, New Cumnock, where their parents still farmed. They took over Braehead by the next census.
The 1901 census shows that Riggfoot Farm is now being occupied by Robert McClement 43 a pit sinker contractor and his wife Janet and their 5 children.
Son William Farquhar Haddow died at Rigfoot in 1889 and by 1891 his mother is an annuitant in Auchinleck.
Son William Farquhar Haddow died at Rigfoot in 1889 and by 1891 his mother is an annuitant in Auchinleck.
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Riggfoot Paymaster , one of the most influential bulls in the Ayrshire breed. Transformed the Bargower herd and from there , the whole Ayrshire breed. Born at Rigfoot in the 1920s. His dam , Riggfoot Jenny 2nd. |
Kilmarnock Herald & North Ayrshire Gazette. 8/2/1934
