Ayrshire History

The Burning of Wallston Toll
in the Parish of Tarbolton, Ayrshire

Notes

  1. W. Albert, The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 (1972).
  2. Anne Gordon, To Move with the Times (Aberdeen, 1988) p.42.
  3. Air Advertiser, 24th November 1814, p.4a.
  4. James McDerment & Sons, Map of the Turnpike & Parish Roads in the Parish of Tarbolton (1852).
  5. AD14/15/35, Precognitions, National Archives of Scotland, West Register House [NAS/WRH].
  6. For instance Air Advertiser, 20th July 1815, p.1d:  Notice inserted by Sheriff Depute.
  7. 19 Geo. III c.xxxii.
  8. Ayr Roads Act, 7-8 Geo. IV c.cix.
  9. For instance CO3/4/2, Ayrshire Roads Trustees Minute Book, 2nd November 1814.
  10. William Johnson, Map of Ayrshire (published in 1828).
  11. CO3/4/2, op. cit.
  12. Ayr Roads Act 1805, 45 Geo. III c.xxvii.
  13. Ayr Roads Act, 7 Geo. III, c.CVI.
  14. Robert Aitken, Parish Atlas of Cuninghame (1829) - in a note to the Table of Distances.
  15. Michael C. Davis, The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire (1991) p.244.
  16. Davis, op. cit. p.264.
  17. B6/15/13, Ayr Burgh Register of Incarcerations, Liberations, Arrestments and Loosings thereof 1809-1816.
  18. No other document lists two Alexander Gibsons - this entry may be incorrect.
  19. A. Cliphanel to Hugh Warrender in AD14/15/36, op. cit.
  20. JC12/29, South No.29, 19th September 1814 to 24th April 1816, [NAS/WRH].
  21. In AD14/15/36, op. cit.
  22. Faculty Decisions 1815-1819, No. CXXI, 18th June 1817.
  23. 43 Geo. III c.CXXXI.
  24. CS/17/1/37, 9th July 1818.
  25. ibid. 10th March 1818.
  26. CO3/1/8, Minute Book of the Ayrshire Commissioners of Supply, 1st May 1820 - 30th April 1829.
  27. Air Advertiser, 26th March 1818, 11th March 1819, 9th March 1820, 8th March 1821.