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(History
of)
KILMARNOCK,
SCOTLAND
by ARCHIBALD M'KAY 1864
This is a book on the
history of Kilmarnock from the earliest time to the year 1863. The original book had 350 pages, appendices, and an
index. I have republished this book in order to make it available to the general public. It is hard to find a copy of the original and only
a few of these books may exist in U.S. libraries.
As you all know, this
locality is where the Boyds first appeared; the Kilmarnock (Dean) Castle, home of the Boyds for generations, is located
less than a mile from the burgh. Therefore, a history of the town
contains much of the history of the Boyds. This is not a work of genealogy but a
work of the history of the place, although genealogical information may be found among its pages.
The history of the town
is very interesting and detailed to no small degree with information on the early Christian and later Christian
churches, politics, charters, disasters; by flood, storm, and panic. It has a lot of the history of the covenanting movement as it pertains
to the burgh of Kilmarnock.
For lovers of Robert
Burns, much information on his life can be found and many of his poetical effusions have been added that were not in
the original book. "The Ayrshire Plowman" or the "Bard of
Mossgiel" spent much of his life in Kilmarnock and the first printing of any of
his work was printed in the town. It has 28 chapters as listed
below.
CONTENTS
1. Antiquity of the
town--origin of its name........................................1
2. Dean Castle described--its
associations........................................7
3. Origin of the Boyds, and notices of the early family
members....11
4. Lord Soulis--notices of the Boyds
(cont.)......................................15
5. The
Covenanters............................................................................22
6. The Covenanters
(cont.).................................................................28
7. Charters granted to the town, Rebellions of 1715,
1745-46.........33
8. The Earl of Kilmarnock at the battles of Falkirk and Culloden
taken prisoner--tried and sentenced to be
executed....................40
9. Behaviour of the Earl after the sentence--his
execution.............45
10. Appearance of the town, 1750--its trades, public
buildings.........54
11. Pastimes of the people--the fairs, King's birthdays,
etc..............62
12. Religious character of the people--violent induction of the
Rev. William
Lindsay...................................................................69
13. Early Schools and schoolmasters--the Academy and other
educational
institutions................................................................78
14. First Dissenting Churches--notices of their
ministers................87
15. Letter-press printing introduced--notice of John Wilson--Burns
and his Kilmarnock
patrons.........................................................93
16. Commercial Statistics--disastrous fires--fearful calamity in
the Low Church..................
........................................................101
17. Public improvements--Town Hall--old road through the town
from Glasgow to Ayr....................................................................109
18. First Kilmarnock periodicals--sketches of James Thomson,
John Burtt, and John
Kennedy...................................................114
19. Dean Park meeting for Parliamentary Reform-- Radical move-
ment of
1819-20...........................................................................118
20. Statistics, the cholers, Kilmarnock Newspapers, etc., Sketch
of Robert
Crawford.....................................................................123
21. King Street United Presbyterian and other churches..
..........129
22. The Shaw Monument--Memoir of Sir James Shaw...................134
23. Astronomical Observatory, Sketches of Thomas Morton,
Professor Robert Findlay, Francis G.P.
Neison, Thomas Y.
McChristie and Professor James F.W.
Johnston.....................139
24. The fine arts, Sketch of James Tannock....................................146
25. Poetical writers, Sketches of John Ramsay, Marion P. Aird
and Alexander
Smith...................................................................150
26. The remarkable Inundation of the 14th July,
1852...................155
27. Literary Institutions, Masonic Lodges,
etc...............................164
28. Recent improvements, Commercial and other statistics..........168
APPENDIX
I. CHARTER BY JAMES VI,
ERECTING THE TOWN INTO A BURGH
OF BARONY,1591....................................................................179
II. KILMARNOCK
LANDS......................................................................182
III. THE TOWN GREEN, RIGHTS AND TITLES OF THE BURGH........183
IV. THE KILMARNOCK COAT OF
ARMS.................................................187
V. THE FURNITURE OF DEAN CASTLE IN
1611......................................188
VI. CLEANING THE STREETS IN
1735....................................................189
VII. THE RED STEUWART......................................................................190
VIII. "RABBLING THE
MINISTER".............................................................190
IX. FASTERN'S E'EN...............................................................................191
X. PROGRESS OF THE TOWN SINCE
1816............................................ 192
XI.
CLUBS..............................................................................................194
XII. THE SNOW-STORM OF SATURDAY, 3RD MARCH, 1827....................195
XIII. THE
CHURCHYARDS.......................................................................196
XIV. EXTRACTS FROM THE OLD KIRK
RECORDS...................................196
XV. THE JUGGS.....................................................................................197
XVI. LIST OF THE MAGISTRATES, TREASURERS, PROVOSTS, AND CLERKS OF THE BURGH FROM 1695 TILL
1863.....................................198
The index Lists over 600
people, with surnames BOYD, STEWART, MUIR,
PATERSON, MONTGOMERY, SMITH, WILSON, THOMSON, LINDSAY,
FINDLAY, CUNNINGHAM, CAMPBELL, CRAWFORD, ANDERSON, HOWIE,
ADAM, BELL, BROWN, DICKIE, DUNLOP, DOUGLAS, HALL, HILL, JAMIESON, JOHNSON, JOHNSTON and many others.
This edition contains 209
pages with the original appendices and a new every name index and is published in its entirety. Spiral bound soft cover. $30.00
plus $3 US Priority mail shipping.
Contact
Richard G. Boyd
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History
Boyds
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THE
BOYD / HAY FAMILY
Panoramic
View of Kilmarnock (Dean Castle)
KILMARNOCK,
SCOTLAND by ARCHIBALD M'KAY 1864
"Kilmarnock
House" and other Olden views of Dean (Kilmarnock) Castle
The
Origins of Kilmarnock, Scotland
Boyds
of Penkill / Trochrig
THE
BOYDS OF IRELAND
Dean
Castle (Kilmarnock) Visitor's Page
The
Battle of Culloden
and The Execution of William Boyd
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