Location of Bowes Cottage Bowes is on the Mansfield estate.
Bows Cottages OS First edition - see also Mansfield Mains
Clayslaps meadow located to the south of Bowes on the Roy map. Switch to the map showing acreage and there is a long lonning from near to Bowes south to a 7.9 acre field on the river bank.
1833 the website New Cumnock History. com has "Two fields in Clayslaps with pendicle attached" with John Picken, tenant. There is also a John Picken at Mansfield Mains, an adjacent property to Bowes in 1851.
There is also a Bowes Farm at Old Cumnock. Think the "farm" here may have been no more than a field, but Bowhouse, or Bowes Cottages seems to have housed several families - or perhaps all the Beattie families.
From the census details for the family below, this appears to be a house(s) associated with the same ~8 acres and must have helped support the Beattie family.
Census
In 1841 census Andrew Beattie was an ag lab at Bowhouse, New Cumnock. All the family were from England apart from Mary 4. They were Andrew 48, Ann 49, Thomas 25, Andrew 15, Martha 15, John 12, and Joseph 10.
As well as the Beatties there was also the McKinnell family, Joseph 40, Jane 30, Elizabeth 5 and Janet 3.
And the McKnights, William 44, Agnes 48, James 21, John 19, Mary 16, Robert 14, Margaret 10, and Agnes 8. William was a gamekeeper.
Also the Vass family. David 50, Margaret 35, Andrew 8, John 6, William 4, and Michael 1.
1851 At Bowhouse, Andrew 57, a cattle dealer, and (perhaps new? or transcription error, not Ann?)) wife Agnes 58, with Archibald Wilson 8, grandson. Also more of the Beattie family, Andrew 28 an agricultural labourer, and wife Marion 22, with children Agness M 2, and Andrew under 1.
And the Samson family with John 29, a farm labourer and wife Martha 20 (Beattie), Agnes 6, and Janet 2.
Also the Wilsons with John 39 and agricultural labourer and wife Elizabeth 27. Children are Quintin 12, George 9, Agness 3, Andrew 2 and Thomas under 1.
1861 Andrew Beattie 67 is living at Clay Slaps Cottage with wife Agnes and farming 8 acres.
1871 Andrew Beattie 77, living at Bowes, is farmer of 7 1/2 acres, 4 1/2 arable. Living with him are wife Agnes 79, son Thomas 56 and agricultural servant, and Agnes 58, Thomas' wife.
1881 Andrew Beattie (son), 55 was a toll keeper at Bowes Cottage with wife Marion 51, Andrew 30, Marion 24, Janet 16, and John G 13.
I include this article from 1881 because it mentions Clayslaps. See the Roy map for location.
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| From the Ayr Advertiser March 1881 |
1891 Andrew Beattie 67, Bowes New Cumnock 67 a retired quarry man with family as in 1881 but with Andrew Beattie 5, grandson and servant Elizabeth Strachan 14.
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| Mr A Beattie, New Cumnock, was awarded the masonry contract. Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald May 1897 |
1901 census Marion Beattie (Muir) 72 farmer. Also family Andrew 49, John G 52 (32), both masons, and Marion 44, dressmaker, Andrew 13, grandson, and Agnes Kennedy 10 domestic servant.
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| Dumfries and Galloway Standard January 1917 |
John Gibson Beattie died aged 75 at Rigg Farm, Kirkconnell in 1943. From the Valuation Rolls for New Cumnock, he owned considerable property.
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| Dumfries and Galloway Standard |
Valuation Rolls
1865 Tenant Andrew Beattie - Land pendicles of Clayslaps
1865 Tenant Andrew Beattie - Land pendicles of Clayslaps
1875 Tenant Andrew Beattie - Land Clayslaps pendicle and cottage at Bowes (transcription errors on SP)
1885 prop Lady Jane Bailey or Stuart Menteith,
1895 Tenant Andrew Beattie - Bowes Cottage and pendicle on Clayslaps Mansfield road. Proprietor Robert Somerville, Stewart Menteith.
1915 prop Sir James Stuart Menteith.
1895 Tenant Andrew Beattie - Bowes Cottage and pendicle on Clayslaps Mansfield road. Proprietor Robert Somerville, Stewart Menteith.
1915 prop Sir James Stuart Menteith.
1920 prop Lt Col Sir James Stuart Menteith.
1930 tenant William Donald.
1940 tenant James Caldwell.
