Scotlands Places 1855/1857
Mosside - This house is the property of Sir James Boswell at present unoccupied.
Location south of Whirr Loch
Rented Lands - Barony of Auchinleck*
Mosside or Mossyde Easter near Whirr was let to William Wallace (1697-1783), to John Wallace, who also rented Barnsdale, in 1787, to Jean Wallace, his widow, in 1790, and to David Samson in 1798.
* The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb,
Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
Edited by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn
Edinburgh University Press and Yale University Press 1998
The History of Auchinleck Village & Parish - Dane Love
p319
Mosside
1774 Auchinleck Estate - William Wallace
The History of Auchinleck - Village & Parish (1991 edition) - Dane Love
p93
By 1900 a further series of farms had been abandoned, including Broomhouse (west of Langholm), Whirr and Mosside (west of Knowe)
Auchinleck OPRs
Jean McRea formerly residing in Mosside died 13/7/1782. Cause of death - universal swelling
William Wallace 86yrs formerly residing in Mosside died 24/6/1783. Cause of death - old age
Peter Ballantine was living there as a greyhound trainer in April 1841 on the baptism record of daughter Jane.
The 1851 census shows Mosside being occupied by Robert Mann age 39yrs an agricultural labourer and his wife Agnes 40. Their daughter Janet 18, who is a hand sewer, daughter Isabella 14 and three sons age 10yrs and under also live there. (By the 1861 census he is at Barbieston.)
The Ayrshire Directory 1851/1852 shows Robert Mann is a gamekeeper at Mosside
The 1871 census shows Moss Side being occupied by farmer's widow Margaret (Crawford) Peden age 43yrs along with sons William 7yrs, Thomas 4yrs and John 2yrs. She employs 1 female domestic servant.
By 1881 the family had moved to 6 Clark Street, Kilmarnock.
Auchinleck Cemetery Lair Ref: 205
(extract) - ...William Peden (son of William Peden, Knowe) died 5/9/1869 age 44yrs at Mosside Cottage (wife Margaret Crawford)
