Horse Tax Hugh Simson, Cauldside, Cumnock
1855 VR MURRAY JAMES
Tenant Occupier
DUMFRIES ARMS INN AND LANDS INCLUDING CULSIDE PARKS BURNSIDE CAPON ACRE CULSIDE* AND SHANKSTONE
Shankston is the name of an iron ore mine near Cumnock. marked on the Roy map. No Horse Tax
Johnne Campbell of Schankeston, and his descendants taken from his will/testament which was made at Over Glaisnock on 29/12/1612. (Scotlands People ref CC9/7/9.) (Campbells of Loudoun)
Burnside of Shankston 1704 birth of John Weir son of John Weir and Janet Brown baptised Dec 24 1704
Dejore - see post for what there is so far. It seems to have been absorbed into the estate of Barskimming, and not occupied by the census of 1841. There are no newspaper references.
Culside = Cauldside cottages were on Glaisnock Street round about where George McTurk Court was or the 'new' station before that so the farm was probably in that area too but can't find it on the old maps so possibly demolished before the railway was built? AndreW Howat on Facebook
The History of Old Cumnock - Rev. John Warrick M.A. 1899 Edition
p 302
‘Old people still with us remember that a market for the sale of livestock was held occasionally at the top of the
Coldsideheads, on an open plot of ground close to the present new railway station. Coldsideheads, it may be noticed, is the original and correct form of the name of that portion of Glaisnock Street, commonly known as Calstoneheads. Such a place was doubtless quite convenient for the purpose of a market. Yet its use as such, in the opening decades of the nineteenth century, was comparatively recent. The charter of 1509 gives rights to the burgh of the barony of Cumnock, not only to have a weekly market, but also to have a market cross; and there can be no doubt that the market would always gather around the market cross. Now, the cross was never at the top of the Coldsideheads.’
There is a Caldside in New Cumnock south of Auchincross on Armstrong's map. Think this must be different one.
