Auchinleck Farms

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Auchinleck, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Surname/tag: Murdoch

Contents 1 Some Auchinleck Farms 1.1 General Notes 1.1.1 Glossary 1.1.2 Location Information 1.2 Bello Mill 1.3 Blackstone 1.4 Bridgend Mill 1.5 Common 1.6 Commondyke 1.7 Dalsalloch 1.8 Highhouse 1.9 Mill Affleck 1.10 Orchard 1.11 Thirdpart 1.12 Whirr 2 Sources

Some Auchinleck Farms

General Notes

This Listing is based on some of the contents in Appendix 1 -"Farm and Small Lairdships" that author Dane Love produced in the back of his book. ^[1].
This page is intended to record the families (and the link to their profiles) who were on these farms as found recorded in :-

1. life events such as Births & Baptisms, Deaths & Burials and Banns and Marriages in OPRs
2. life events in Civil registrations of Births, Deaths and Marriages
3. census records 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, and 1911 (and 1921?) - Note: the 1841 Census was lost at sea.
4. monumental Inscriptions for Auchinleck Churchyard
5. other records

Glossary

Commonly used words in the naming of the farms:

1. Meikle = Large?

Location Information

The location information shown for the farms are given in two reference systems.

1. The Ordnance Survey Mapping reference grid (OSGB) eg NS 205324 as provided in Appendix 1, by Dane Love^[1]
2. The Approximate equivalent GPS (latitude and longitude) that can be used with google maps (expressed in decimals of a degree)

NOTES:

• location of farms is approx (given to the nearest 100m)
• Some farms still exist whilst others have been demolished, consolidated or renamed
• maps consulted were viewed on the National Library Scotland (NLS) Website (including):

• General William Roy's Military Survey, 1750
• Ordnance Survey 25" 1st Edition, 1855-82 (various sheets)
• Ordnance Survey 6" County Series, 1860

Bello Mill

Approx Location (nearest 100m):

OSGB Reference: NS

GPS (Googlemap) : Lat & Long in Decimal of Degrees: 59.000000 N, -4.290000 W

Occupancy History:

1747 - 1806, John Murdoch (c1727-1806)

Anna Bruce (

1806 -

Blackstone

Approx Location (nearest 100m):

OSGB Reference: NS

GPS (Googlemap) : Lat & Long in Decimal of Degrees: 59.000000 N, -4.290000 W

Occupancy History:

Bridgend Mill

Approx Location (nearest 100m):

OSGB Reference: NS

GPS (Googlemap) : Lat & Long in Decimal of Degrees: 59.000000 N, -4.290000 W

Occupancy History:

Common

Approx Location (nearest 100m):

OSGB Reference: NS

GPS (Googlemap) : Lat & Long in Decimal of Degrees: 59.000000 N, -4.290000 W

Occupancy History:

Commondyke

Approx Location (nearest 100m):

OSGB Reference: NS

GPS (Googlemap) : Lat & Long in Decimal of Degrees: 59.000000 N, -4.290000 W

Occupancy History:

Dalsalloch

Approx Location (nearest 100m):

OSGB Reference: NS

GPS (Googlemap) : Lat & Long in Decimal of Degrees: 59.000000 N, -4.290000 W

Occupancy History:

• David Murdoch & Elizabeth Cambell
• Robert Murdoch & Agnes Templeton of Woodside

Highhouse

Mill Affleck

Orchard

Thirdpart

Whirr

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Love, Dane, The History of Auchinleck, Village and Parish, Carn Publishing, Auchinleck 2015 (second edition)

• 1851 Census for Auchinleck