Auchingee, Ochiltree

Location Scotlands places 1855-7 A farmsteading dwelling & outhouses attached, one storey thatched & in bad repair. Captain Hunter proptr. [proprietor] North British Agriculturalist and Edinburgh Evening Journal 1853 The History of Ochiltree Village & Parish - Dane Love p305 Auchingee Abandoned and merged with other farms to form Ravenscroft  1841    Bonnyton Estate - James Clement 1851    Bonnyton Estate - John MacMurray 1853    Bonnyton Estate - John Campbell in Rankinston p331 A new steading erected at Ravenscroft in 1860s to replace three former farms - Auchingee, Fauldhead and Greenside Census 1841 census shows James Clement 60 with his wife Margaret 50 with sons David 15 and Andrew 12 along with daughter Mary 20 at Auchingee with William Lees 4, and Thomas Elliot 20, in the house on the night of the census.

The 1851 census has John McMurray 31 and wife Jane 30 farming 200 acres of hill pasture.  They have a daughter Jane 1, and a son Peter 3 days old.

Elisabeth McCutcheon 19 and Margaret Kelly 10 are servants. 

There are no records after this date, and nothing can be seen where it stood.  There is however, a new farm steading at Ravenscroft.  See the Greenside post for the location.