Thursday, 14 January 2021

Blackfaulhead, Auchinleck

Location OS 6 inch first edition


 Barony of Auchinleck - Rented Lands*
 Blackfauld, also known as Blackfaulhead and Falhead, was contiguous to Knowe. It was occupied by   estate labourers up until 1776. (Bruce's Auchinleck Journal)
* 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
  p308
  1774              Auchinleck Estate - Andrew Dalrymple

 Auchinleck Churchyard
 Lair Ref: 52
 Er James Bryan, Blackfaulhead IMO s John 10/4/1816 22, w Agnes McKerrow 8/9/1824 59. s Wm 11/8/1828 30                                                                               (perhaps)
 
Location: 55 28 31N, 4 21 22W