Ayrshire
Notes is published by the Ayrshire Archæological & Natural
History Society in association with the Ayrshire Federation
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| No. 33 Spring 2007 |
No. 32, Autumn
2006 |
No. 31, Spring 2006 |
No. 30,
Autumn 2005 |
No. 29, Spring 2005 |
No. 28, Autumn 2004 |
No. 27, Spring 2004 |
No. 26 Winter 2003 |
No. 25 Autumn 2003 |
| No. 24 Spring 2003 |
No. 23, Autumn 2002 |
No. 22, Spring 2002 |
| No. 21, Autumn 2001 |
No. 20, Spring 2001 |
No. 19, Autumn 2000 |
| No. 18, Spring 2000 |
No. 17, Autumn 1999 |
No. 16, Spring 1999 |
| No. 15, Autumn 1998 |
No. 14, Spring 1998 |
No. 13, Autumn 1997 |
| No. 12, Spring 1997 |
No. 11, Autumn 1996 |
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No. 33,
Spring 2007 |
A Family of Photographers
James McAdam and
the Loss of Waterhead
A Letter from Auchinleck to Canada
For Services Rendered
The Carrick Shore Land
The Story of the Development of an Arran Village
Short Notices (Scottish Collieries; www.futuremuseum.co.uk)
Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies (notices)
Diary of Meetings of Historical Societies April to June
2007 |
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No. 32,
Autumn 2006
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Baltersan and Killochan: a
glance at architectural quirks
Rev. Robert Jaffray (1747-1814),
Minister of Gallows Knowe Church, Kilmarnock
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Real Ayr Connection
Fergushill Tileworks - a short-lived industrial concern
on the Eglinton Estate
Short Notices: Edmonston CDs, Annals of Alloway,
Servants in Ayrshire
Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies [notices]
Diary of Meetings of Historical Societies September 2006
to June 2007 |
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No. 31,
Spring 2006
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James
McAdam: Waterhead to Whitefoord
The Baron of Buchlyvie
Social Mobility in Victorian Scotland
Dalrymple scouts
'Some Entries in a Farmer's Book about the Close of Last
Century'
Cyclists' Touring Club 'Danger Boards'
Book Notes
What the Postman Saw
Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies [notices]
Diary of Meetings of Historical Societies April to May
2006 |
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No. 30,
Autumn 2005
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The passing of the Handloom
Weaver: Memories of Bygone Days in Ayrshire
Lord Justice Sir Anthony McCowan (1928-2003)
Index to Ayrshire Notes 1 to 30 |
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No. 29,
Spring 2005
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The
story of Adam Reid recounted through letters and diaries
This moving account of the short life of the devout Adam
Reid is the sole article in this issue. |
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No. 28,
Winter 2004
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Ayrshire
Stallion Leaders
Deerness Covenanter Memorial
Drowned while hunting with
his otter-hounds
Scotland's Churches Scheme
Norris McWhirter
Historic Milestones |
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No. 27,
Spring 2004
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Monkton and Prestwick Parish Church: building specification
and correspondence concerning the building of this church,
which commenced in October 1834.
Quintin McAdam's Dalmellington Bypass and Bryce Macquiston's
Map
The Covenanter's Prophet (Alexander Peden)
'There's credit here for ev'ry soul (a poem by John Lapraik
concerning a modern problem)
Book Notices |
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No. 26, Winter 2003
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This special edition of Ayrshire Notes is devoted
to a long article on the history of this'venerable and estimable'
local newspaper, with 16 illustrations. |
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The Bequest of Captain
John Smith
J & A Taylor, Engineers,
Ayr
The Mercury Safety Air Gas
Company Ltd
Reminiscences of Kildonan House, Barrhill
Alexander Waters, mason and builder, Sundrum
William Murdoch - The Man Who Lit the World
National Monuments Record of Scotland - Mapped and Online
Hunky Dory
Book Reviews
David R Boswell, My Very Dearest Sweetheart
- Boswell before Boswell - Letters of The Lady Elizabeth
Boswell (1704 to 1711, and 1733)
Frank Beattie, Kilmarnock Memories
Martin Bellamy, Millport and the Cumbraes
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J Stewart, Minorities
and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and
Western Europe
Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies
- Notices
Diary of Meetings of Societies September 2003
- May 2004
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Old Kilwinning Town and the biography of Robert Morrison
Thomas Duncan, Electrical Engineer - a pioneer inventor
'Our Iron King' - James Baird of Cambusdoon
Book Reviews
Michael Moss, The 'Magnificent Castle'
of Culzean and the Kennedy Family
Jean F Stoddart, Barbieston: The Story
of an Ayrshire Hamlet
Diary of meetings of Historical Societies
April to May 2003
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Finlayson
Arms, Coylton
"She weeps o'er the trinkets he gave
her"
Sawney Bean:
Myth or Myth
The Auld Kirk, Beith
Hugh
Miller, 1802-1856, Geologist and Writer: His Links with
19th Century Girvan
Lieutenant Robert Shankland: Ayr's Supreme
Hero
Book Review: Ronald Brash, Ayr
St Columba: The Church on Midton Road 1902-2002
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Richard Oswald of Auchincruive
"our
friend poor Oswald is no more" George Oswald,
younger son of Richard Oswald of Auchincruive, died of
consumption in Toulouse in March 1763. The writer
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was with him at the end, and
recorded his passing in letters to Richard Oswald and
his business partner, John Mill.
Hugh Pollock:
The First Mr Enid Blyton - An Update
Sawney Bean, Scotland's Cannibal King
The Kilmarnock Junior Flute Band
Book Review: Jean Aitchison, Servants
in Ayrshire. Review
by Rob Urquhart.
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The Cumnock
Poaching Riot of 1833
Robert Stirling's Air Engine
Stinchar
Bridge, Colmonell
Hugh Pollock:
The First Mr Enid Blyton
Book Notes:
Hugh Douglas, Jacobite Spy Wars:
Moles, Rogues and Treachery
Rob Close, The Street Names of Ayr.
Review by
David B. Smith.
Hugh Douglas and Michael J. Stead, The
Flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie
Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies:
notices.
Diary of Meetings of Historical Societies
September 2001 to May 2002.
Have you Scanned yet? About
the SCAN website, www.scan.org.uk
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A Tour of Irvine old Parish Kirkyard
An Eighteenth Century Tearaway
The Mysterious Death of Sir Alexander Boswell
A
Kilmarnock 'Soiled Dove'
Scotland's Churches Scheme
Book Notes (Rev. Robert Stirling DD, Whispers
of Horse Island, Beith
Supplement and Advertiser, Burns Country, Clyde Coast
Picture Palaces)
Ras al Kaimah
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Kilkerran
Pyroligneous Acid Works 1845 to 1945
The King
of Fanning Island (additional information following
earlier article in Ayrshire Notes No. 18)
Annbank in 1863
Eglinton Tournament
War Memorials
The
Dalmellington Volunteers
Sea-Bathing at Ardrossan
Limekiln at Kersepark
Auchinleck House
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Auchinleck House
A Millennium Story:
The King of Fanning Island
Mill Street, Ayr
Old Fingerposts
in Ayrshire
A Traveller's View of the Ayrshire Coast in 1758
Kilmarnock Gas Works
Short Notices
Kilmarnock: Aspects of Local History 2
Galston Parish Church; An Historical Synopsis
Kirkmichael Churchyard - Monumental Inscriptions
Straiton Churchyard - Monumental Inscriptions
Diary of Meetings March - May 2000
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W G Walker & Co. (Ayr): A Company History to 1945
A Newmilns poisoning case
Growth and Grace
The riot at Deans
Mill: A disturbance in Maybole, 1831
An 18th-Century Inventory
of Kilhenzie Castle
Sweet Bargany House
Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies
Swap Shop
Conference 2000
Barbara Graham
Diary of Meetings of Historical Societies in Ayrshire
1999-2000
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Marion Paul
Aird revisited
McClymont and Dunlop:
Water-powered sawmills on the Girvan
Sail gives way to steam
Alexander Smith: A forgotten poet
Alexander Jack and Sons, Maybole
Rival gasworks in Newmilns
Jim Moffat (1918-1998)
Book Review: Robert Burns The Tinder Heart, by
Hugh Douglas
Notes and Queries
An Admiralty Court in Ayr
Ayr street names
Kilmarnock Gas Works
Early stone drain in a Monkton garden
Diary of Meetings March - April 1999
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Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies
Ayrshire Archives
Suffragettes 'carry the torch' in Ayr and Prestwick
James Boswell's Address
to the King
Two extant bridges
of John and James Rutherford
A customs raid on Arran distillers
Ayr Horse Market
Belfast excursionists visit Ayr
Publications of Largs and District Historical Society
Out of the blue: McAdam's
house in Penrith
Book Reviews
Historic Ayr: A Guide for Visitors
The Encyclopædia of Scottish Executions
1750 to 1963
The Hearth Tax for Ayrshire 1691
Ayrshire Archives: Accessions 1997-7
Diary of Meetings 1998-9
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How the carpenters of Saltcoats and West Kilbride gave
the press-gang the slip
Marion Paul
Aird, authoress, 1815-1888
Rebels on Ailsa Craig, 1746
John Barr, Ardrossan, 1798-1884: The Late Provost
Barr
Seaweed processing in the West of Scotland
Pigot's Directory and Captain Armstrong's Map of Ayrshire
Minute Books of the
Ayrshire Commissioners of Supply
Two Mock Doors in Portico: The sequestration in
1821 of James McCall & Co,. contractors for the County
Buildings, Ayr
The Hearth Tax of Ayrshire, 1691: a new publication
Ayrshire Sound Archive
Proposed Stirlingshire Federation
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Three letters of the Rev. John Barclay
The AANHS: Reflections on its past and future
John Strawhorn (obituary)
Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean
A father of the Ayrshire iron industry
Tobacco pipe manufacture in 1858
The National Burials Indexing Project
New books about Ayrshire:
Margaret H. B. Sanderson, Ayrshire and the Reformation:
People and Change, 1490-1600, (Tuckwell Press 1997).
Kenneth Simpson ed., Love and Liberty: Robert Burns
A Bicentenary Conference (Tuckwell Press 1997)
Ayr Auld Kirk: Monumental Inscriptions (Troon
and District FHS 1997).
Rhona Wilson, Old Catrine and Sorn (Stenlake
Publishing 1997)
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The disputed location of
Muirkirk Toll
A different kind of sportsman
To attendance and bleeding
Nether Catrine house
New books about Ayrshire
John E. Dolan and Miles K. Oglethorpe, Explosives
in the Service of Man (RCAHMS, 1996).
Reflections of Beith and District: "On the
Wings of Time" (Beith High Church Youth Group,
1996).
Guthrie Hutton, Mining - Ayrshire's Lost Industry
(Stenlake Publishing, 1996).
Muirkirk, Ayrshire: An Industrial Landscape
(RCAHMS).
Alexander McRobbie, A Priviliged Boyhood (Stenlake
Publishing, 1996)
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Child of the sun [concerning the slave Scipio Kennedy
at Culzean]
Principal Officers of Ayrshire Commissioners of Supply
Gas works in Ayrshire
Finding out about Ayrshire. 10: "The
Collections"
A walk to Ayr, 1792
New books about Ayrshire
John Smith of Dalry Part 2 [see AANHS Ayrshire
Monographs]
Old Girvan: A Pictorial History (9 videotapes).
The Parish Church of Stewarton 1696-1966
Scottish Archives Vol. 1 (Scottish Records Association,
1995)
Irene Hughson, The Auchenharvie Colliery:
An Early History (Stenlake Publishing, 1995)
David Pettigrew, Old Muirkirk and Glenbuck (Stenlake
Publishing, 1996)
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