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The families listed here are related to myself. Links to my public family tree on WikiTree are provided and the site is easily navigated for further details. Names in bold print are my direct ancestors. I have also included families connected to my daughter via her paternal line with her direct ancestors in bold italics.
AFFLECK.
James Wallace Affleck (1876-1958) and Agnes Wallace (1876-1944) were married in 1896 at Coylton. Ten children were born in Coylton before the family moved to Dreghorn where Janet Wallace Affleck, known as Jenny, was born in 1914 followed by Robert McCosh in 1915 and Sarah Wallace in 1916. The 1921 census returns show the family are living at Kirkland Rows, Bankhead. James and his sons Thomas, James and Walter were miners for J. R. Howie and daughter Lizzie was employed at the brickworks at Southhook.
ALLISON. James Allison - WikiTree Profile
James Allison from Dreghorn and Margaret Brown from Irvine, were married in 1780. James was a coalminer and the family settled in Kilwinning.
ANDERSON. Hugh Anderson - WikiTree Profile
Hugh Anderson (c.1800-1863) was born in Ayr to Hugh Anderson and Mary Murdoch. He married Jane Little in 1831 and they had seven children. The family moved to Dreghorn around 1851 as they are housed at The Crown Inn at the time of the census return.
Hugh and his two sons, James (1829-1876) and Hugh (1838-1905), were coalminers. While working for Archibald Finnie they lived at West Thornton; then they worked for Archibald Kenneth and lived at at Springside Square (Rows).
Both Hugh and his son James died at Springside Square. Although James married, the couple had no children. James died from miner's asthma. The younger son Hugh had married Mary Shaw and 9 of their children were born in Dreghorn. Hugh then moved his family to Sorn and then Kilmarnock.
BARR. George Colville Barr - WikiTree Profile
George Colville Barr was born on 6 August 1821 at Kilwinning to John Barr and Agnes Littlejohn. The Barr family were miners. George married Mary Duff on 16 June 1844 at Kilwinning. In 1868, George and Mary's youngest child Elizabeth was born at the Croft Inn in what is now known as Springside. This marked the Barr family's appearance in the Parish of Dreghorn. The 1871 census has the family living at Kirkland Row where tuberculosis had a severe effect on the family. Christina was the first to fall at 10 years of age at the Croft Inn in October 1871; 14 year old Barbara was next at Bankhead in January 1872; Elizabeth was only 4 years of age when she succumbed at Bankhead in July 1873. In 1871, their fifteen year old daughter Agnes, was working as a domestic servant at Springhill Farm.
George and Mary's personal losses did not stop there. In July 1872 18 year old William died at Bankhead having had a spinal disease for ten months. Their daughter Mary married James McLeod in 1873. This couple settled in Eastwood where in March 1878 at Giffnock Farm, Mary died aged 26 years from tuberculosis. Five months later, Mary's brother George died at Bankhead aged 32 years, his cause of death was Ascites, which is a build up of fluid in the belly often caused by liver disease.
George Barr died on 28 February 1879 at Bankhead, another victim of tuberculosis.
James left the mines to become a gardener and in 1874 married Mary Ann Laird in Dreghorn. James and Mary Barr had two daughters Agnes and Mary Ann. Sadly James lost his wife and baby daughter in 1876. In 1881 James lives at Old Perceton and he made trips to Boston where his brother John lived. James died at Corsehill Row in 1913 due to pneumonia. Mary Duff had died at Corsehill Row on 20 July 1902, senile decay was her cause of death. So no surviving Barr's from this line of the family remain in Dreghorn.
George's sister Margaret (1809-1888) had married Edward Shirkey in 1827 at Kilwinning. Margaret was widowed in 1864. By 1881 Margaret and her son John Shirkie were living at Overton where he was a coalminer. Margaret's daughter, Catherine Shirkie, was a servant at Overton farm.
BELL. James Bell - WikiTree Profile
James Bell and his wife Margaret Millsop moved from Ayr to Dreghorn by 1855 and the family lived at Corsehill Square. Only four of their children survived into adulthood and married. William (1849-1908) was married twice, first to Mary Johnstone in 1873 and then Christina Rubie in 1892. Agnes (1855-1936) married James McLaughlan in 1876. Hugh Bell (1860-1924) was married twice, first to Mary McCarroll in 1881 and then Sabina McManamion in 1903. Georgina (1868-1917) married Peter Orr in 1889.
The Bell family were miners and lived at Corsehill Square, Station Row, Townfoot and Main Street. After the war years when council housing was built they progressed to schemes like The Glebe and Mount View in Dreghorn and also Springhill Terrace in Springside.
Three of Hugh and Mary's children emigrated to New Zealand - Agnes Robertson Bell with her husband James Howat and nephew Hugh Stewart; Jane Bell with her husband William Milligan; and William McCarroll Bell. Three of the sons served in World War One - James, Hugh and John along with their cousin Robert Rubie Bell.
Hugh's second wife Sabina had two sons from her first marriage, Frank and Thomas Burke. Frank would also lose his life in WW1.
Hugh and Sabina had three sons in Dreghorn - Robert, Harry and George.
BOYD. Alexander Boyd - WikiTree Profile
Elizabeth, Alexander and Jane Boyd were the children of Alexander Boyd from Ireland. Alexander brought his family to St Quivox, Ayr where another daughter, Agnes was born in 1827. The family of coalminers arrived in the Parish of Dreghorn by 1860. The 1861 census has Elizabeth (Boyd) Hammond living in the household of her son George Hammond at Perceton Row. Also at Perceton Row in 1861, was Jane (Boyd) Storey with her husband Robert and their children. Two children were born at Perceton to Robert and Janet Storey - Alexander in 1863 and Margaret in 1865. The Storey family then moved to Tarbolton.
Alexander Boyd junior and his second wife, Isabella Strachan, had moved to West Thornton by 1871. Many of the Boyd's would settle in Springside - Alexander Boyd and Jane Wallace, James Boyd and Jane Dunlop at Corsehill Row; John Boyd and Sarah Laughland at Springside Square and Six Rows; Robert Boyd and Cecilia Kilpatrick, Mary Boyd and Joseph Lusk, Frances Boyd and James Milligan all settled at Kirkland Rows; Stewart Boyd and Agnes Copeland at Springside Square. Robert Boyd and his sister Mary Lusk would immigrate to America and settle in Illinois.
DEAN.
Robert Dean Mathie (1916-1972) was born at Kirkland Rows and was adopted by his aunt, Jane Mathie (1882-1963), and her husband Robert Dean (1886-1972). Robert and Jane had a daughter, Jane Kinney Dean (1907-1979).
Robert Dean went on to marry Janet Wallace Affleck and they raised two daughters in Springside.
GILLILAND.
Henry Gilliland (1876-1949) and Rosalin Rae (1877-1927) were both living at Southhook, Dreghorn when they married in 1897. Children born in Dreghorn include Catherine in 1899, Prudentia Long in 1903, Henry Norton in 1907, Rosalin Castle in 1910, Jane Rae in 1912 and Mary Ann Graham in 1915. Rosalin Rae’s sister Sarah had married Henry Norton in 1902 at Dreghorn. The Gilliland’s were coalminers and in 1911 the family lived at 12 Corsehill Square in what is now Springside.
Henry Norton Gilliland (1907-1970) and Sarah McDougall White (1908-1971) raised a family in Springside where Henry was a blacksmith.
HANNAH. Robert (Dunbar) Hannah - WikiTree Profile
Robert Hannah was a sixteen year old coalminer who was lodging at the home of George Scanlan at Overton around 1871. Robert was the grandson of Robertson Kerr and Isabella Scott. The Kerr family came over from Newtonards to settle in Ayrshire around 1855 when Robert was born to Isabella Kerr and Samuel Hannah. Robert's mother commonly went by her first married name of Hannah and this name was adopted by Robert too. Robert married Elizabeth Hudson and would move on to Kilmarnock.
KENNEDY. Alexander Kennedy (1740-) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Alexander Kennedy and his wife, Jean Roat [Rowat], raised a family in Kilwinning; however, one child was born at Dreghorn in 1781 named Robert. Both families had a small presence in the parish at that time.
Another son James married Mary Stevenson in 1794 at Kilmaurs and they settled in Dreghorn where the births of James, Agness, Jean, Elizabeth, Ann, Alexander, Mary and Robert were born between 1798 and 1813 at Montgomeriefield. This family would move to Kilwinning.
KILPATRICK. Robert Kilpatrick (1800-1848) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Robert Kilpatrick (1827-1879) was the son of Robert Kilpatrick and Agnes McLelland. The Kilpatrick family lived in Stevenston and Robert with his wife Janet Walker Wilson and four children are living at Corsehill Square, Dreghorn from 1869. Three of their children were born in Dreghorn - Hugh 1869-1870, Agnes 1871-1877 and Janet 1876. In the census of 1881 widow Janet and her five surviving children are living at the Co-operative Store Building, Dreghorn and by 1891 they have moved to Hamilton.
Lilias Kilpatrick (1846-1881) was the daughter of Robert Kilpatrick and Agnes McLelland. Lilias married John Stewart and they had three children. The family lived at Millbank Row, Dreghorn in 1881 and the census indicates Lilias was ill as her mother, Agnes Kilpatrick, was nursing her. Lilias died on 16 July 1881 from phthisis and John Stewart moved to Sorn.
LINDSAY. William Lindsay - WikiTree Profile
James Lindsay was the son of Andrew Lindsay and Agnes Barr. His wife, Elizabeth Skimming had died in 1873 at Annick Lodge Colliery and from then on James lived with his brother William at Southhook Rows until his death in 1893.
William Lindsay and his wife, Janet Storey, were married in Stewarton in 1869 and had had three children - Agnes (1870-1872), Robert (1872-1912) and Andrew (1876-1875), before moving to Southhook Rows, Dreghorn where William was a coalminer. Three more children were born there - Agnes 1876, William 1879 and Jeanie 1882. Janet Storey died in 1890 and William then married Annie McConachie (widow of William Garroch) in 1893 at Kilwinning. It appears the Garroch family were members of the Christian Brethren. Sometime after 1905, William and Annie moved to Plann Row, Crosshouse. Annie died in 1917 and William in 1924; William is buried in Dreghorn cemetery with his brother James and two sons; Janet Storey was buried in the common ground.
At Southhook Rows in 1895, William's son Robert married Annie's daughter, Maggie Garroch. Sadly, Maggie died in January 1897. Later that year Robert married Isabella McPike at Tarbolton. Robert and Isabella were at Southhook Row in 1901 with children Agnes McTaggart in 1898 and William in 1899, two more children would follow - Janet Storrie in 1902 and Isabella McLellan in 1904. Robert died at Plann Row in 1912. Plann Row came under Kilmaurs Parish. The 1921 census shows William Lindsay now living with his widowed sister-in-law Isabella McPike and her four children. Although Isabella is noted as his wife, the couple did not marry until 1924
Agnes Lindsay (daughter of William and Janet) was born and raised at Southhook and married Edward Burley there in 1900. Edward was a coalminer at Old Cumnock before the family settled at Bankhead, Dreghorn. Agnes had an illegitimate daughter, Janet Storrie Smith in 1898 by coalminer Andrew Smith. Edward and Agnes Burley had three children - Thomas born 1901 at Dreghorn, Amelia Clarey 1902 and William Lindsay 1904 at Old Cumnock. After the death of Edward Burley in 1914, Agnes married William MacDonald in 1920 at Kilmarnock. William MacDonald was a 50 year old shipyard worker and a widower. In 1921 the Burley and MacDonald families lived at Kirkland Rows, Bankhead. Agnes MacDonald died in 1951 at Croft Terrace, Springside.
William and Janet's daughter Jeanie Lindsay married Thomas Welsh Morgan in 1902 at Southhook. See Morgan.
Agnes Lindsay (1851-1871) was the daughter of Andrew Lindsay and Agnes Barr, Agnes married William Stevenson in 1869 at the Free Church in Perceton. They lived at Annick Lodge Colliery, Irvine.
Matthew Lindsay, another son of Andrew Lindsay and Agnes Barr, was married to Margaret Finniecome in 1880 and were living at Southhook Rows. Between 1884 to 1899 six children died leaving two who survived - Elizabeth born 1886 and Margaret in 1891. This family moved to Kilmarnock.
Thomas Lindsay was a grandson of Thomas Lindsay and Margaret McFarlane, he married Deborah McGowan in 1864 at Kilwinning and in 1881 he and his family were living at Kirkland Row, in what is now Springside. Thomas was a coalminer and he died in Old Cumnock in 1902.
LITTLEJOHN. William Littlejohn - WikiTree Profile
William Littlejohn (1804-1881) was born in Kilwinning to William Littlejohn and Grace Maxwell. He married Jean Gibson (1804-1883) and eight of their children survived to adulthood.
William was a coalminer and he moved to Dreghorn to work in the pit that had opened in Overton. His two elder sons remained in Kilwinning. Three more children , James, Findlay and Jean, would move on to pastures new in America. Findlay married Isabella Paton in 1856 at Dreghorn and they lived at Annickbank in 1861. Six of their children were born in Dreghorn between 1859 and 1867.
James married Mary Ferguson in 1858 at Kilwinning and their daughter, Janet, was born in 1859 at Dreghorn.
Jean married John Hind/Hynds in 1864 at Dreghorn and two of their children were born there.
The two children who stayed in Dreghorn sadly died young. David (1844-1866) married Elizabeth Skimming on 29 December 1865 and died a few months later on 9 May at Overton. Grace (1849-1873) had been a domestic servant in Stewarton.
The Littlejohn family lived at Warwick Row and Overton as employees of Merry & Cunninghame Ironmasters.
McCALL. Gilbert McCall - WikiTree Profile
Gilbert McCall born in 1816 at Patna to David McCall and Margaret Kerr. Gilbert married Elizabeth Neil and they mainly lived in Straiton and then Kilmarnock, apart from a brief period in Dreghorn. The youngest of their thirteen children, Janet, was born in 1860 at Capringstone farm. As a ploughman, Gilbert and his family were able to stay in the ploughman's house on the farm.
Daughters Jane and Sophia were married in Dreghorn - Jane to Adam Dunlop in 1862 and Sophia to William Fulton in 1864.
None of the family remained in the Parish.
MILLAR/MILLER. John Millar - WikiTree Profile
William Millar was born in 1842 at Stevenston, he was the grandson of William Miller and Mary Simpson. William married Grace Wilson Arnott in 1863 and their daughter, Mary Campbell Millar was born in Dreghorn in 1868 where the family lived for at Springhill Row before moving to Kilwinning where William died in 1893.
John Millar (son of William and Grace) and his wife Jane Lewis moved around the Ayrshire mining works in Dalry, Stevenston, Rankinston and Kilwinning before settling in Dreghorn. In 1911 John Millar (born 1864, Stevenston) is a colliery engineer living at Glengown Cottage, Townfoot. The 1921 census has the family at Greenwood Rows and John's son Archibald (born 1895, Dalry) with his wife, Barbara Boyle, also live in the Rows. A son, Thomas was killed in action on 19 April 1917.
Another son, William (1886-1951) and his wife Mary Jeffrey, lived in Dreghorn where William was an electrical engineer at the colliery. William is recorded as disabled in the 1921 census. The family lived at 97 Townfoot, the tenement buildings owned by Kenneth & Sons. Their children were Margaret Lyons, Jeanie Lewis, Mary Jeffrey, John, twins Grace Arnott and Robert Jeffrey, William, twins Thomas Arnott and Matthew Jeffrey. Their son William was a prisoner of war in Japan from February 1942 until his liberation in 1945.
Hugh Harvey Millar (son of John and Jane) was born in 1903 and married Marion Ingram in 1920 at Dreghorn where they had four children - Janet Woods, John, Jane Lewis and Hugh Harvey. The family had lived at Townfoot.
Another grandchild of William Miller and Mary Simpson was Agnes McLellan Miller (1853-1925), she married William Paton Murray in 1872 at Stevenston and they lived in Millbank Row, Dreghorn in 1881. Four children were born at Dreghorn before the family moved to Kilmarnock by 1891 - John Murray was born in 1874, Robert Miller Murray in 1876, Martha Paton Murray in 1882 and Lily Kilpatrick Murray in 1886.
MORGAN. Doral Morgan - WikiTree Profile
Daniel/Donald Morgan (1846-1904) and Isabella Welsh (1848-1905) were married in Dalry in 1866 and they settled in Overton where they raised a family before moving to Southhook Rows by 1889. They were a coalmining family. Donald and Isabella are buried in Dreghorn Cemetery.
James Morgan (1867-1941) married Agnes Paterson in 1887 at Kilwinning and lived at Springhill Row and Maryland Cottage, Bankhead. Their son Donald was the sub-post master in Springside.
Robert Welsh Morgan (1869-1922) married Agnes Graham in Bellshill and their family were born in Hamilton. This family moved to British Columbia in 1921 where Robert was killed in a mining accident in 1922.
William Morgan (1871-1941) married Marion Deans in 1896 at Kilmaurs and they moved to Bellshill before returning to Dreghorn by 1905. In 1911 they lived at Corsehill Row and in later years at Springside Terrace.
Joseph Welsh Morgan (1873-1945) worked at Bellshill and married Sarah Ann Kirk. Joseph moved his family to Rotherham, Yorkshire.
John Morgan (1875-1901) died aged 26 years at Southhook Row from a chronic abscess of the spine.
Jane/Jeanie Kerr Morgan (1877- ) had been a farm servant at Altonhill when she married Alexander Sim in 1899 at Kilmaurs and raised a family there.
Thomas Welsh Morgan (1880 -1969) married Jeanie Lindsay in 1902 at Southhook and raised a family at Maryland Cottage, Bankhead and Corsehill Row. Their children included Donald (1902-1982), Janet Storrie (1906-1967), Isabella Welsh (1908-1975), Jean Boyd (1911-1987), Mary (1914-1999), Agnes Lindsay (1917-2000) and Helen (1921-2018). Soon after Helen's birth, the family moved to Stewarton. Agnes, who married Gordon Graham, emigrated to Australia. Isabella and Jean would return to Dreghorn where they raised their families.
Mary Marshall Morgan (1883-1964) married John Murtland in 1906 at Dreghorn. In 1921 they were a family of four living at Bothwell and then Drybridge. Mary's sister Helen (1892-1970) was staying with them in 1921. Helen was a cook and never married, she was living in Kilmaurs when she died of cancer.
Daniel Welsh Morgan (1886-?) remains a mystery after 1901.
David Marshall Morgan (1889-1889).
Isabella (1890-1961) was a dairy farm servant at Springside farm. Bella married David Haldane in 1911 at Dreghorn and raised a family in Kilmaurs.
MURCHLAND/MURTLAND. John Murchland - WikiTree Profile
John Murchland (1838-1890) was born in Stevenston to Agnes Cowan and her husband Alexander Murchland. When John was only 13 years of age he was a coalminer lodging with his aunt Elizabeth (Murchland) McDonald and he would remain with the McDonald's at West Thornton until he wed.
John married Jean Fisher in 1863 at Stevenston. Apart from their eldest child, all other children were born in Dreghorn. John was employed by Archibald Kenneth and lived at Springside Square and Corsehill Row.
Three sons, all coalminers, lived in the Parish - Alexander (1863-1899), Richard (1867-1938) and John (1876-1944).
Alexander married Annie Neil ( A.K.A. Annie Kirkwood) in 1892 and their son John (1894-1897) died in childhood. They had lived at Springhill Row.
Ritchie had also been in the employ of A. Finnie & Sons and lived at Springhill Row. He wed Maggie Deans, widow of John Dunlop. They had lived at Williamfield Cottage , Bankhead and then Corsehill Row under the employment of A. Kenneth & Sons. Ritchie was the step father to Maggie's children.
John (1876-1944) married Mary Marshall Morgan in 1906 at Dreghorn and they two children - Isabella and John. John would become a mining contractor and they moved from Bankhead to Drybridge where they lived in the Smithy Buildings.
SCHOLES.
Thomas Scholes’s widow, Catherine Brown, was at Muirside, Dreghorn in the 1841 census return. Catherine was from Ireland, a widow, and had two teenage children in the household – Susan and John. Their daughter, Margaret Scolas married James Wallace in 1834 at Kilmarnock, the Wallace family would settle in Dundonald.
STRAEHORN.
Alexander Straehorn from Dreghorn married Janet Huie at Kilmaurs in 1727. The family moved around Ayrshire for work and settled mainly in Kilmarnock. A son, Alexander, was a shoemaker who married Agnes Smith, one of their children, John, was born at Dreghorn in 1762, so there may still have been a family connection in Dreghorn at that time.
WELSH. Robert Welsh - WikiTree Profile
Robert Welsh moved to Southhook Row following the death of his wife, Jane Kerr at Dalmellington in 1892. His daughter Isabella Welsh Morgan was living at Southhook Rows at that time. Another daughter, Jane Welsh Grant had also moved from Dalmellington to Hayside Row near Southhook. Robert Welsh died in 1898 and was buried in the common ground at old Dreghorn Cemetery..
Alexander Welsh was born in 1877 at Overton to Jane Welsh, the first of three illegitimate children. Jane Welsh married Alexander Grant in 1882 at Annick Lodge, Irvine. This family would move to Dalmellington and then return to Dreghorn where their youngest child William Grant was born in 1895 at Hayside Row. Robina Ramsay Grant (1883-1942), daughter of Alexander and Jane, had an illegitimate child at Hayside Row, the child, Alexander Grant was born in May 1900.
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