Location near Logan Bridge Old Cumnock
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| The red line traces the parish boundary between Auchinleck to the north, And Old Cumnock to the south, with Logan Holm head just within it. |
In Scotlands Places 1855/57 Holmhead, Old Cumnock, is listed as an inferior farm steading occupied by William Lamon.
Census
1841 Anne Baird 30, and Robert Lamont 14
1851 William Lamond 26 farming 52 acres with brother Robert 23 and Jane Sharp 24, house servant. (William married Jane Sharp)
1861 Holmhead William Lamont 59, farmer of 50 acres employing 2 labourers and one boy. Son William Lamont,29, born Auchinleck,and servants Jane Sharp 28 and Marion Robertson 13.
By 1871 William Lamont 47, and wife Jane 40, are farming at Longhouse, and Holmhead is being run by William senior.
1871 William Lamont 68, farming 60 acres, 48 arable , son John 46 and his wife Ann (Howie) 44, and servant Esabilla (Isabella) Crabb, 17.
1881 census for Logan Holmhead Farm shows William Lamont 84 Farmer Of 50 Acres Arable Employing 1 Man And 1 Girl, son John 50, and his wife Christina (Forsyth) 34, 2 small children Mary 4 and William 2, and a young female servant, Grace Anderson 15.
Son John Lamont continued until his death in 1901 at Logan Holmhead.
1901 Christina Lamont, widow 57 with daughter Mary Johnstone Lamont 24 and son John 19 managing the farm.
Valuation Rolls
1865 Proprietor William Allason Cunninghame
1875 Proprietor William Allason Cunninghame, tenant William Lamont of Land, Holmhead (no mention of farmhouse)
1885 Proprietor William Allason Cunninghame.
1895 Proprietor Richard Bannatine Allason, tenant John Lamont
1905 Proprietor Richard Bannatine Allason, tenant Robert Forsyth
1915 Proprietor Richard Allason, tenant Robert Forsyth
1920 Change of tenant to William Forsyth
1930 and William Forsyth is owner/occupier House, farm, and shootings of Holmhead
