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Newhouse (NS 627 162)
Littlemarkhill
The ruins of Newhouse cottages are situated above Dalleagles midway between Dalleagles Burn and Straid Burn.
It was home to a company of Quakers that had moved up from the North of England in 1790 to work the lead mines mines at Dalleagles and the coal mines at Straid [1,2]
George Sanderson records that Aaron Hardie, Mungo Walker and John Lee were all born at Newhouse in the early 1800s [1]. Mungo was born there in 1804 as were his twin sisters Katherine and Mary five years later
The name of Newhouse still appeared on maps of the 1860's but in later maps of 1897 it is called Littlemarkhill (which in the 1881 Census Records it is recorded as being "Uninhabited"), after the Little Mark farm near Dalleagles.
PLACES
NEWHOUSE
Newhouse
Perhaps the new house was purpose built to house the Quakers that worked the mine at nearby Dalleagles Burn
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Littlemarkhill
The cottages were on the hill belonging to nearby Little Mark farm
Newhouse
1804: Mungo Walker
1809: Katherine and Mary Walker
Mungo, Katherine and Mary were the children of James Walker and Agnes Douglas (Thanks to John Walker for this information)
Baptism Records
Place-name
Remains of field boundary at Newhouse
The ruins of Newhouse
Looking north from the ruins of Newhouse
References
[1] George Sanderson
'New Cumnock long Ago and Faraway'
[2] Donald McIver 'A Stroll through the Historic past of New Cumnock', 2000