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A small neat village, lying on the banks of the rivers Gregg and Stinchar, is distant from Girvan 8 miles, and from Ayr 24. It contains a very neat church (of which the Rev Ebenezer Bradshaw Wallace is the minister), a parochial school-house, and a subscription library. The greatest part of the parish is intersected by the river Gregg; and about a mile from the village are the ruins of the old Kirk Dominae, where there is a hiring fair for servants on the first Saturday after the 26th May.
Barr parish is principally sheep pasture; its extent, twelve miles by nine. The chief landed proprietors of the entire district are the Most Noble the Marquess of Ailsa and Sir James Ferguson.
POST OFFICE:
James McCaa, Post master - Letters from Girvan arrive every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at half past ten, and are despatched in the afternoon of the same days at two.
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SHOPKEEPERS, TRADERS &c |
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Baird, William, surgeon |
Caldwell, John, blacksmith |
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Ferguson, Wm, grocer & spirit dealer |
Fergusson, Thos, grazier, Dinmurchie |
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Forsyth, Geo, boot and shoe maker |
Forsyth, Janet, vinter |
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Forsyth, John, boot and shoe maker |
Gibb, Geo, shopkeeper and teacher |
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Kennedy, John, joiner & cartwright |
McCaa, Jas, shopkeeper and cartwright |
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McCraken, Robert, blacksmith |
McCreedy, Andrew, tailor |
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McCubbin, George, tailor |
McGarvie, John, vinter |
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McKinnan, Jno(?), cartwright & joiner |
McMurtrie, John, Innkeeper |
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Pringle, Wm, cartwright & joiner |
Walker, Stephen, master of the parochial school, and librarian of the subscription library |
CARRIERS:
To Ayr - William Harrison and John Thomson every Friday, and John Cowleson every alternate Tuesday.
To Glasgow - Matthew Dickie every alternate Tuesday.
This transcript was kindly provided by Keith Muirhead from the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.
Page created by Iain Kerr.