The village of dreghorn, four and a half miles west of kilmarnock, stands on the brow of a descent to the west, commanding a fine view of the sea. The influence of certain geographical and historical conditions on the physical development of lombardy, brownswiss, brittany, dairy shorthorn, ayrshire. We have over 600 sets of books pdf, 589kb available for loan to local book groups. North ayrshire readers day north ayrshire community planning. Maps home ordnance survey 25 inch to the mile, 1st edition, 18551882. Media in category gravestones in north ayrshire the following 22 files are in this category, out of 22 total. Agnes murthland married my great great great great grandfather james young 16. And a long history full of dramatic stories, lore and legend. It contains the royal burghs of ayr the county town and irvine. In 1841 there were 11 dreghorn families living in ayrshire. Its history and historic families, volume 2 william robertson on. This web page shows only a small excerpt of our dreghorn research.
See all books memories of dreghorn read and share your memories of dreghorn itself or of a particular photo of dreghorn. North ayrshire council has introduced procedures to ensure the safety and security of children and. The first of the name was william of dregarn in dreghorn. If you would like to help please contact email address below. Ayrshire os name books, 18551857 these volumes provide information on the place names found in the ayrshire parishes of ardrossan, auchinleck, ayr, ballantrae, barr, colmonell, coylton, craigie, dailly including ailsa craig, dalry, dalmellington, dalyrymple. The town of irvine stands on irvine river, near its mouth, in the centre of irvine bay, six and a half miles west of kilmarnock, 11 miles north of ayr, and 29 12 miles southwest of glasgow. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages.
Arran mobile timetable pdf, 193kb mainland mobile timetable pdf, 6kb kilwinning, auchentiber, kilbirnie, saltcoats, irvine home library. Photos, maps, personal memories and local books of dreghorn. A number of security measures are used including the use of a visitors book, badges and escorts while visitors are within the school building. As archaeological excavations near the village centre have found a significant neolithic settlement provisionally dated to around 3500bc, as well as medieval structures, scholars have suggested. Nor have i included books by writers who come from ayrshire but who have not so far set in a novel in ayrshire. Extraction of baptisms for ardrossan st johns free church 1846 1855. History of dreghorn in north ayrshire map and description. Gibsons of mauchline, ayrshire, scotland ayrshire history. Currently our lists are full and we are unable to take on new referrals. Page 71 the judgment of the law is, and this high court doth award, that you, william earl of kilmarnock, george earl of cromartie, and arthur lord balmerino, and every one of you, return to the prison of the tower from whence you came. Using scan searches i found a brief history of the montgomeries, the earls of eglinton person code dsuk25064. To learn more about how to use these records to search.
He has resided in beith, north ayrshire since 1986. Land of burns small photo book mainly featuring ayr alloway 5,017k pdf supplied by. Their headstone is at the threepenny parish church in dreghorns front door. Ayrshire, scotland genealogy genealogy familysearch wiki. Sir andrew wylie 1822 historical novel reign of george iii. Dreghorn was the site of a significant neolithic settlement, and subsequently a medieval village.
The town of irvine is at least 1,000 years old, and has accumulated a whole load of history in that time, this section deals with some of it. They may well include the names of other locations or areas. Its history and historic families, volume 1 by william robertson isbn. By using this site you agree to the use of cookies. Ayrshire genealogy records genealogy and family history in. Ayrshire is one of the most important counties in scotland, with a long and proud history. Carrick, ayrshire, monumental inscriptions pre 1855. He specialises in local and social history and has written books on the history of the garnock valley and doon valley, including the towns of beith, barrmill, dalmellington, gateside, kilbirnie, patna, and waterside. For example, in england and wales rural districts units with rd or rsd suffixes may even exclude the places they are named after. Ayrshire genealogy records genealogy and family history. This is a guide to the history and major genealogical records of scotland as they pertain to the parish of dreghorn.
This record set contains 51 entries in pdf format, and has. Another 70 words 5 lines of text are included under the topic early dreghorn history in all our pdf extended history products and printed products wherever possible. Ayrshire bibliography a general index of over 600 books about ayrshire. Please note that these units are listed here because their boundaries covered the point location we hold for dreghorn. Francis frith the uks leading publisher of local photographs since 1860. The carmelite convent in irvine was a creation of the fourteenth century, and. In the 18th, 19th and mid20th centuries, the locality was a highly industrialised coal mining district. A unit may cover just the town or village, but it may include a big surrounding area. Dreghorn is a village in north ayrshire, scotland, 3. Feb 23, 2020 irvine, a royal, municipal and police burgh, and seaport of ayrshire, scotland.
Making scottish genealogy affordable and accessible. Its history and historic families, volume 1 robertson, william on. It has a railway station, a post office with money order and savings bank departments, shops, an established church, an evangelical union church, and a public school. Fantastic, great value for money friendly staff and the home baking is the icing on the cake pun intended saracens head hotel beith. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Gb historical gis university of portsmouth, history of dreghorn in north ayrshire map and description, a vision of britain through time. The units covering this place tab lists units whose boundaries contained dreghorn election results.
Read this book if you live in any of scotlands towns or cities with tenements flats, or if you have an interest in social history its excellent. The book covers the ayrshire coast from north to south. Mary irvine serv unm 14 general serv do dreghorn 5 aitkenhead 1 john gemmill head mar 50 farmer x ayrshire fenwick 5 christina do wife mar 50 farmers wife x do, do andrew do son unm 20 do son x do, do william do son 9 scholar. A complete list of ayrshire parishes with their key numbers will be found in the table below. The village of springside is in north ayrshire, parish of dreghorn, scotland. North ayrshire simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Media in category history of north ayrshire the following 116 files are in this category, out of 116 total. Page 257 a small burgh towne lying at the mouth of a river of the same name, which hath some time been a pretty small port, but at present clogged and almost choaked up with sand, which the western sea beats into it, soe as it wrestles for life to maintaine a small trade to france, norway, and ireland, with herring and other goods, brought on horseback from glasgow, for the purchasing timber. The work the gentleman put into this book is invaluable, and judging by his comments in the preface, for no financial reward. Skip to navigation it appears that your browser either does not support javascript or has had javascript disabled, and you have meta redirects disabled. North ayrshire information and culture services present a. Dreghorn s closest neighbours are bourtreehill and broomlands. The youngs farmed in doura mains farm roddinghill farm kilmaurs mains farm broomlands farm assloss farm. Dreghorns historical main industries were farming and coal mining.
A large archive of historical documents and photographs from ayrshire. Local information for the town of dreghorn, ayrshire. The villages most famous inhabitant, john boyd dunlop, was born at a dreghorn farm in 1840. New statistical account of scotland family history library book 941 b4sa. Dreghorn is a village in north ayrshire, scotland, to the east of irvine town centre, on the old main road from irvine to kilmarnock. Possibly because there was the influence of many who had arrived. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Dreghorn, ayrshire, scotland genealogy familysearch wiki. Extracted from james patersonhistory of the counties of ayr and wigton edinburgh 1864. Clues can also be found by speaking to local people who may provide the pronunciation of a name from a map, etc. Ayrshire records genealogy and family history in scotland. Douglas skelton has published eleven books on true crime and history.
Little dreghorn near dreghorn in north ayrshire was changed to fairlie after the familys main home on the ayrshire coast. The dreghorn family name was found in the usa, and scotland between 1840 and 1920. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. The home library service is for elderly, or infirm, people in north ayrshire who have no one at home to go to the library for them. Its principal towns include ayr, kilmarnock and irvine and it borders the counties of renfrewshire and lanarkshire to the northeast, dumfriesshire to the southeast, and. The 2011 census recorded the towns population at 33,698 inhabitants, making it the largest settlement in north ayrshire. Page 9 kilmarnock, in the year 1670, and took out a erown charter in the following year disjoining these lands from the lordship of boyd, and erecting them into a free barony, to be called, in all time coming, the barony of kilbride, and which he assumed as his own designation, and under which title he appears several times as a commissioner of supply for the county of ayr, towards the. As archaeological excavations near the village centre have found a significant neolithic settlement provisionally dated to around 3500bc, as well as. The area that today forms ayrshire was part of the area south of the antonine wall which was briefly occupied by the romans during the reign of emperor antoninus pius see.
Guide and directory of mauchline catrine and sorn 14,794k pdf. It was inhabited by the damnonii, who are presumed to have been britons. We are adding hundreds of thousands of extracted historical records to our website including rolls of male heads of families, baptismal and marriage registers, kirk session records and poor law records. Featured texts all books all texts latest this just in smithsonian libraries fedlink us genealogy lincoln collection. Possibly because there was the influence of many who had arrived from glasgow and the like but had no old irvine background. These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with dreghorn, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. A number of security measures are used including the. Dreghorn is a small village near irvine, north ayrshire, scotland, not to be confused with the town and army barracks just south of edinburgh. When practicing as a veterinary surgeon in belfast, in 1887 he invented pneumatic tyres for bicycles. It is the birthplace of john boyd dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tire. These are available in either pdf format or viewable online. Irbhinn is an ancient settlement, in medieval times a royal burgh, and now a new town on the coast of the firth of clyde in north ayrshire, scotland. Some local history books for your consideration list 1. Although updated from the original arnold mcjannets history of irvine it contains irvine updated but this is by the council of north ayrshire and lacks so much of the real personality of irvine.
Annals of the parish 1821 historical novel 17601810. This record set contains 51 entries in pdf format, and has not, as far as we are aware, been published before. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. The most dreghorn families were found in and scotland in 1841and scotland in 1851and scotland in 1861and scotland in 1871and scotland in 1881and scotland in 1891and scotland in 1901. Mauchline, sorn, muirkirk, catrine, galston, and many more feature. The dynastys patrilineal breton ancestors had held the office of high steward of scotland.
Dreghorn north ayrshire, scotland, united kingdom with population statistics, charts, map, location, weather and web information. To learn more about how to use these records to search for your ancestors, go to the scotland. For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of. Does anyone have any links to the murthland or young family trees. This record set contains 51 entries in pdf format, and has not. You can search for units that covered the particular location you are interested in by typing a postcode into our home page, or by using our historic maps section, zooming in, selecting the information option, and then clicking on your location. The village of dreghorn, four and a half miles west of kilmarnock, stands on the brow of a.
Publishes articles on the history of the county of ayrshire on the west coast of. Please consider ordering through the links on this page as i get a small affiliate commission which helps to reduce the costs of running the site. The parishes have been numbered as in the third statistical account of scotland. Ayrshire, an extensive county on the western coast of scotland, is bounded on the north by renfrewshire, on the east by the counties of lanark and dumfries, on the south by the stewartry of kirkcudbright and the county of wigton, and on.
Aug 19, 2016 history dreghorn was the site of a significant neolithic settlement, and subsequently a medieval village. Dreghorn, ayrshire, scotland genealogy genealogy familysearch. This page was last edited on 18 february 2019, at 15. Guide to ayrshire ancestry, family history and genealogy. This special edition of ayrshire notes is devoted to a long article on the history of thisvenerable and estimable local newspaper, with 16 illustrations. Help needed to source old pictures, postcards or photographs, interesting articles or the history of dreghorn. It is situated on the north bank of the estuary of the irvine, 29. Read on wikipedia edit history talk page print download pdf. Founded by robert ii, the house of stuartalso spelled stewart in scottish contextsfirst became monarchs of the kingdom of scotland during the late 14th century before inheriting the kingdoms of england including wales and ireland in the 17th century. Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as william camden and thomas pennant into the roman, saxon and medieval names of places. First several chapters may be viewed here contributed by cooper hay of cooper hay rare books. Alexander mcdougal ralston of warwickhill, dreghorn, ayrshire. The population development of dreghorn as well as related information and services weather, wikipedia. Irvine is an ancient settlement, in medieval times a royal burgh, and now a new town on the.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Browse 4 photo books on dreghorn and the surrounding area. A few relevant chapters from a very interesting book about the history of ayrshire and its families, dated 1852. Dreghorn photos, maps, books, memories francis frith. The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry. Despite being classed as a new town, irvine has had a long history stretching back many. History the station opened on 28 may 1848, 1 and closed in october 1850. Welcome to dreghorn primary school a message from mrs emma reeves head teacher.
Indexed records include asylum records, poor law appeals, baptisms, communion rolls. North ayrshire council has introduced procedures to ensure the safety and security of children and staff when attending or working in a school. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. It borders onto the areas of inverclyde to the north, renfrewshire to the north east, and east ayrshire, and south ayrshire to the east and south respectively. Fantastic, great value for money friendly staff and the home baking is the icing on the cake pun intended saracens head hotel. For more information on other towns in ayrshire, you can visit our towns in ayrshire page, alternatively you can use the navigation menu.
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