AYRSHIRE ARCHIVES
BP Burgh of Prestwick
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/1 Legal Documents 1446 - 1964
BP1/1A Prestwick Sea Wall and Esplanade 1930
BP/1/1B Prestwick Open-Air Bathing Pool 1930
BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick 1470 - 1934
BP/1/3 Town Council Minutes 1726 -1974
BP/1/4 Town Council Letter Books 1967 -1974
BP/1/5 Burgh Arms 1955
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths Correspondence 1907 - 1972
BP/1/7 Publicity and Social Events 1864, 1972 -1973
BP/1/8 Loch Braden Water 1908 -1922
BP/1/9 Social and Welfare Administration 1900 -1908
BP/2 Town Treasurer's Department
BP/2/1 Abstract of Accounts 1904 -1975
BP/2/2 Account Books 1874 -1888
BP/2/3 Cash Books 1824 - 1902
BP/3 Police Court
BP/3/1 Cases 1903 -1975
BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP/4/1-7 Town Council Correspondence 1607 -1935
BP/4/3/1-18 Town Council Correspondence re Prestwick Ploughmen's Society Records 1826 -1931 BPAB1 Monkton and Prestwick Joint Cemetery Committee
BPAB1/1 Accounts 1974 -1975 AYRSHIRE ARCHIVES
BP Burgh of Prestwick
BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/1 Legal Documents
BP/1/1/1 24 August 1446 Notarial instrument regarding royal letters to Sir John Walas of Cragyne Knight, Bailie of Kyle, on the complaint of the Burgesses and community of Prestwick against the lieges bordering with them and others for wrongful occupation of the Burgh's common and property and usurping its privileges and freedom
BP/1/1/2 24 August 1446 Notarial instrument regarding John Walas Knight, Laird of Cragyne, by command of royal letters, chose an inquest of men of his Bailiary of Kyle Steuart to perambulate the marches and metes of the Burgh of Prestwick and adjoining lands and to assign right metes and bounds between the liberties of the Burgh and other lands belonging to Burghs and lairds
BP/1/1/3 5 December 1489 Obligation by John Wallas of Cragy, narrating that although the Bailies and community of Prestwic have infeft him in the coals in certain bounds of their common, from the Gallous and the Galloushill of Prestwic down to the sea and up from the Galloushill to the moss on the one part and the march of Hugh Walles' lands of the Newtoun on the other, as is contained in their charter to him, if he, his heirs and assignees do not 'optene coilis nor coilhuchis nor wyne name' there within three years, then on due warning by the Bailies and community they will resign their right to the coals within the said bounds into the hands of one of the Bailies, together with all charters, instruments of sasine and other evidents and, if they fail to make such resignation in the parish kirk of Prestwic, the donation and evidents shall nevertheless be null and void. At the Burgh of Are. Witnesses Hugh Walles and Adam Walles, granters brothers, John Blare of Adamtoune, Hugh Walles of the Newtoun, John Crauffurd in the Dryngys, Sir Robert Creif and Sir Andrew Mccormyll, notaries
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BP/1/1 Legal Documents
BP/1/1/4 11 September 1540 Charter by Walter, Lord Staint John, Knight of the Order of Jerusalem and Preceptor of Torphichin, to Agnes Cuthbert of two roods of templelands called Temple Blak within the Burgh of Prestwick, between lands of Archibald Wod on the north and tenement of Adam Finlaw on the south, resigned by Agnes Blak and Jonet Rolland, daughter of the deceased Jonet Blak, heir portioners of deceased Robert Blak, for an annual feu duty of 6d scots. At Torphichin. Witnesses Nicholas Dundas, John Lindesay and Robert Robeson. Signed by granter
BP/1/1/5 1545 A protestation of the town of Prestwick against Sir William Hamilton about the Mill of Prestwick. Transcription available
BP/1/1/6 20 - 22 August 1571 Extract acts and decreet of sheriff court of Ayr in the action between Sir William Hammiltoun of Sanchair and George Simpsoun and Edward Wilsoun, Bailies of Burgh of Prestwick, for themselves and inhabitants of the Burgh, fixing the marches between the lands of Sanchair Lindesay alias Sanchair Hammiltoun and the lands of Prestwick. (3 items)
BP/1/1/7 18 October 1584 Letters in the name of Burgesses and community of Burgh of Prestwick appointing George Simpsoun and Alexander Broune, Bailies of the Burgh for the ensuing year BP/1/1/8 20 November 1589 Instrument regarding the resignation by Alexander Broun of his kiln to John Knicht, Bailie, who gave sasine thereof to Patrick Potter, to whom he also gave sasine of a piece of waste ground on the east side of the kiln
BP/1/1/9 19 June 1600 Charter of novodamus by James VI, as administrator, tutor and govenor of his son, Henry, Duke of Rothesay, confirming all grants by his progenitors to the Burgh of Prestwick and erecting it anew into a free Burgh in barony
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BP/1/1 Legal Documents
BP/1/1/10 19 June 1600 Precept to the Bailie of Kyle Stewart and his deputes to give sasine to the Provost, Bailies, Councillors, Burgesses and Freemen of the Burgh in terms of charter, reference number BP/1/1/9
BP/1/1/11 7 July 1600 Instrument regarding Alexander Hunter in Monktoun, Bailie of Kyle Stewart gave John Mitchell and John Neill, Bailies of the Burgh of Prestweik, in terms precept, reference number BP1/1/10
BP/1/1/12 1 July 1619 Extract contract between Mr Patrick Hamiltoun, Minster at Sanctcavox [St Quivox], heritor of the lands called the Hows of the Muir in the territory of Prestwick, William Fergushill and John Neill, Bailies of Burgh of Prestwick, fixing the marches between lands of Hows of the Muir and 'Mossrowme' belonging to the said Patrick, and commonty and 'Mossrowmes' pertaining to the town of Prestwick
BP/1/1/13 25 September 1638 Instrument narrating that Adam Gottray, Burgess of Burgh of Prestuik, resigned a tenement in said burgh formerly belonging to deceased John Dunlop and Patrick Potter, between tenement of John Gottray his eldest son on north, and the High Street [publicam viam regiam] on east, the loch or marsh of said Burgh on west and tenement of deceased Alexander Knight, now belonging to John Neill younger on south into hands of William Fergushill, Bailie, who gave sasine thereof to George Gottray, second son of the said Adam. Notary John Kennedy clerk of Galloway Diocese
BP/1/1/14 4 November 1730 Obligation by William Neil and Andrew Caldwell, Bailies, William Hunter, treasurer, and other Councillors, Burgesses and Freemen of the Burgh of Prestwick, to maintain the town of Prestwick's rights and privileges against Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigy, Advocate, who has assumed the office of Heritable Provost of the Burgh. Signed by 28 Freemen and notarially for 3 others
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BP/1/1 Legal Documents
BP/1/1/15 18 June 1754 Extract from sheriff court books of Ayr concerning the boundaries between the town of Prestwick and the town of Newton
BP/1/1/16 10 November 1759 Opinion of Alexander Wedderburn, Lincoln's Inn [later Lord Chancellor Loughborough] on the town of Prestwick against the town of Newton, with respect to the advisability of appealing to the House of Lords against the decision of the Court of Session
BP/1/1/17 1780 Reduced plan of Prestwick arable lands and peat holes, copied from W Crauford's original plan of Prestwick by William Bell by order of the arbiters in the division
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BP/1/1/20 1788 - 1840 Legal papers regarding court cases in Burgh of Prestwick. Letter to Robert Miller from John Rufsel regarding compensation to be paid, 1788. Receipt of money given to John Boyd, John Cunningham and others by David Boyd, dated 1812. List regarding property holders and values, 1824. Claim for a proportion of the conversion money of the united parishes of Monkton and Prestwick for roads passing through the Burgh of Prestwick, 1828. Witness statements and decision on case of Dalyrampyle Hood's door being banged repeatedly and his greens stolen, 1834. Witness report regarding payment, 1835. Complaint and bond of caution against Gavin Wilson and William Fraser for fighting in public, 1835. Confession of James Conaway and Walter Proudburn for disturbing and frightening Alexander Guthries and striking and abusing William Robinson and confession of Robert Kirkland and John Boon for stealing five shillings, 1835. Petition and decision on the case of paying William Bolen's daughter 5 or 4 shillings for herding, 1835. Petition of John Hunter, Procurator Fiscal against George McCarter and John Weldon for forcibly entering a house and assaulting Margaret Logan, 1837. Measurements and valuation of land in Prestwick for a coal railway, 1840. Witness statements regarding the assault on Margaret Logan, no date. Decision and bond of the case of James McLellan, Andrew Hart, William McGallan and Daniel Wright stealing Robert Larta's carrots, no date. Two lists of proposed new roads to be considered for the appropriation of the conversion money of the united parishes of Monkton and Prestwick, no date. List of deductions made where the property was let for a lower price, no date. (16 items)
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BP/1/1/21 1792 - 1911 Receipts and claims dated 1792 - 1808. Accounts of the magistrates of Prestwick to Alexander Murdoch, 1801 - 1802. Correspondence to Magistrates of Prestwick, 1803. Papers in connection with The Well Green, Station Road, Prestwick. Note on postage of papers, 1842. Copies of accounts of expenses incurred by Burgh of Prestwick, 1872 and1877. Closed record in the case of the Magistrates of Prestwick against Charles Browning and others, 1875. Accounts payable to Burgh of Prestwick 1877. Correspondence to William Smith, 1887. Plan of Station Road improvement at Well Green, 1911. 2 copies of precognition of Robert Brown concerning Well Green, 1911. Minute and response for Robert Manson's and Andrew Crawford's objections regarding boundary walls at Well Green, 1911. Open record of Robert Manson's court case against the Provost, Magistrates and Town Council of Prestwick regarding widening the road at Well Green, 1911. Statistical account of the agriculture of the united Parish of Monkton and Prestwick, no date BP/1/1/18 30 September 1801 Queries by the Magistrates of Prestwick and answers thereto by James Finlay, 'their doer at Edinburgh', concerning alteration of Freemen's lots and division of commonty
BP/1/1/22 1801 Memorial for the Magistrates of Burgh of Prestwick and James Andrew against Robert Reid regarding valuation and sale
BP/1/1/23 1803 Answers for James Hunter and Magistrates of Prestwick to the petition of Mr Reid and others on the "alterations" to the common land
BP/1/1/24 1805 Letter from James Finlay to the Magistrates of Prestwick advising the increase of the Monkton stipend
BP/1/1/19 10 October 1814 Copy decision or award of Sheriff Depute of Ayrshire respecting division of unappropriated lands
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BP/1/1 Legal Documents
BP/1/1/25 1831 Copy of letter from Bailie William Smith regarding meeting to discuss new church, 1831
BP/1/1/26 1831 Notes made by Reverend Mr Burns from presbytery records c1642 - 1766 relative to Monkton Parish, no date. Copy letter from the Prosecutor for the Church to the Reverend Mr Burns relative to Monkton Parish, 1831. (3 items)
BP/1/1/27 1834 Decreet of transportation of Reverend William Rorison and others against Richard Alexander Oswald and others on the condemnation of Prestwick Kirk and the proposal to build a new kirk for the united parishes of Prestwick and Monkton at Powmill
BP/1/1/28 1840 Letter from William Smith to Mr Whyte regarding railway line going through his land, 1840
BP/1/1/29 1847 Minutes of the road trustees for the County of Ayr. Formation of the named roads into a district or trust to be called the Ayr District
BP/1/1/30 1863 - 1866 Extract of Interdict. Magistrates of Prestwick against Walter Miller, 1863 for removing sand from the shore and Alexander Heron, 1866 for moving wreck from the shore with multiple horses. Drawn up by C B Rowan, Solicitor, Ayr (2 items)
BP/1/1/31 1879 - 1880 Extract of agreement between Burgh of Prestwick and John Taylor Gordon regarding a feu in Prestwick on the foreshore
BP/1/1/32 1899 - 1918 Plans of ground in Prestwick. Auchincruive Road and Shaw Road (2 items)
BP/1/1/33 1902 Notes on points submitted to the Lord Advocate by Burgh of Prestwick for his opinion on Burgh legal matters regarding the 1900 Town Councils (Scotland) Act
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BP/1/1/34 1902 - 1918 Notes on footbridge litigation and 2 letters from Somervail and Company regarding specification of footbridge,1908. Bundle of legal papers regarding Larke's trustees versus Burgh of Prestwick regarding new road and footbridge (includes plans), 1902 - 1908. Copy Dean of Guild Court record between Burgh of Prestwick and Andrew Larke, Patrick King, John Eaglesham and Glasgow and South Western Railway Company, 1909. Prestwick railway line footbridge, includes record of appeal by Andrew James Larke and Mrs Larke's trustees regarding footbridge, 1910. Record and proof in appeal of Andrew Larke and Mrs Larke's trustees against Burgh of Prestwick from Dean of Guild Court, 1910 (47 items)
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BP/1/1 Legal Documents
BP/1/1/35 1902 - 1916 Receipts and invoices for Councillor Hugh Peebles and Mrs Elizabeth Peebles. Includes Inland Revenue for Motor Sport Licences; John McClure and Sons, drapers; Reid and Company, brassfounders; J and W Gibson, joiners and funeral undertakers; British Petroleum Company Limited; David Bryson, funeral and carriage hirer; Hillhouse Quarry Company; Licence for keeping Petrol; Newton-on-Ayr Gas Company Limited; D Hourston and Sons, general drapers; Pianoforte lessons; Peter Lee and Sons, oil refiners; John C Dalrymple, plumber and slater; Miller and Taylor, golf ball manufacturer; Robert Rose, clothier; Scottish Union and National Insurance Company, A McGougan, plain and decorative painter; Wilhelm Hess, photographic artist; Kennedy Brothers; L and F Peebles, horse shoers and smith, William Shaw, solicitors, Ayrshire County Assesments; Prudential Assurance Company Limited; Hugh Higgins, builder; Thomas Higgins, builder; Rose and Sherrington, tailor; Bank of Scotland; John McGregor Owen, joiner and builder; Maxwell Allan, painter, decorator and glazier; Property and income tax; Prestwick Burgh Treasurer's Office; Caledonian Insurance Office; Paterson Sons and Company, pianoforte and music sellers; W and W C Macrorie; Hugh Henry, printer; Matthew Morrison, tailor, Duties on Land Act; Matthew Lawson, cabinet maker and upholsterer; Smith and Wellstood Limited, Glasgow; T D MacArthur, joiner and builder (183 items)
BP/1/1/36 1906 Burgh of Prestwick Municipal Election results and minutes of council and committee (1 item)
BP/1/1/37 1907 Letter from Donaldson and Alexander, solicitors, Glasgow to the Town Clerk, Prestwick, regarding property in Allanvale Road
BP/1/1/38 1908 Letter from McPherson and McKay, Edinburgh, to Alexander Bowie Esquire, regarding the case of Burgh of Prestwick versus James Cuthill regarding signing the mineral lease and disposition
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BP/1/1/39 1908 3 leases regarding minerals, including coal and iron ore in Burgh of Prestwick. Draft lease and copy lease between Burgh of Prestwick and William Baird and Company Limited. Draft copy lease between Burgh of Prestwick and Auchincruive Coal Company
BP/1/1/40 1908 - 1910 Notes on Titles of Prestwick Golf Club. Letter with receipts for life membership of Prestwick St Cuthberts Golf Club for Frank Peebles and Councillor Hugh Peebles. Newspaper cutting regarding Frank Peebles playing golf, no date
BP/1/1/41 1908 - 1941 Leases regarding minerals in Prestwick. Lease between Burgh of Prestwick and William Baird and Company Limited of Prestwick, minerals and copy plan of Prestwick mineral field, 1908. Lease between the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of Burgh of Prestwick and Bairds of Dalmellington Limited of Prestwick, minerals for 30 years (original, including plan of Prestwick mineral field and copy), 1937. Valuation of minerals in Burgh of Prestwick under the Coal Act 1938 carried out by McCreaths and Stevenson, 1941. Small plan of Ayr Road and surrounding areas, no date. Draft particulars for insertion in the coal holdings register for Monkton and Prestwick, no date (6 items)
BP/1/1/42 1909 Copy correspondence between Messrs Andrew and Addison, solicitors, Ayr and Town Clerk, Prestwick concerning feu and teind duties and mineral rights (2 copies)
BP/1/1/43 1910 Search for incumbrances over part of number thirty five of the remainder of the common lands on the margin of the seashore of Burgh of Prestwick by Miller and Bryce, Edinburgh
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BP/1/1/44 1910 Description of ground known as 'Verbena', Saunterne Road, no date. General Licence for Councillor Hugh Peebles to trade in Prestwick
BP/1/1/45 1911 - 1915 Bundle of legal documents regarding the estate of Councillor Hugh Peebles and his trustees, including note of property rentals, inventory and valuation of heritable property (10 items)
BP/1/1/46 1913 - 1915 Duties on Land Values on ground within Burgh of Prestwick. Relating to properties on Alexandra Avenue owned by Councillor Hugh Peebles, 1913. Relating to vacant land on Boyd Street owned by Town Council of Prestwick, 1915 (9 items)
BP/1/1/47 1918 Notes on titles of subjects "Craiglea" in St Quivox Road, Prestwick, purchased by Mrs Jessie Fulton
BP/1/1/48 1918 Notes on the titles of " Kenwood " in Marina Road, Prestwick, purchased by Mrs Ann Blair or McClure
BP/1/1/49 1929 Memorandum of Commutation between Burgh of Prestwick and Thomas Fraser constituting additional feu duty over Beechbank, Ayr Road; Peter Campbell constituting additional feu duty over Prestwick Toll Bar; Hugh and Katherine Montgomerie constituting additional feu duty over subjects in New Prestwick
BP/1/1/50 1932 Notice of change of ownership of Summerlea Cottage, Prestwick to Hector Andrew McArthur
BP/1/1/51 1962 - 1964 Letters to Andrew MacLeod, Troon Town Clerk regarding details of caravan sites and arranging a closing order for 49 Templehill (2 items)
BP/1/1/52 No date Copy of translated Charters of Burgh of Newton- on-Ayr, 1595 and Charter of Novodamus and Erection of Burgh of Barony of Newton-on-Ayr, 1600
BP/1/1/53 No date Plan showing New Prestwick and the Kingcase Bridge
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BP/1/1 Legal Documents
BP/1/1A Prestwick Sea Wall and Esplanade
BP/1/1A/1 1930 Specification, General Conditions of Contract, Schedule of Quantities and Tender for Sea Wall and Esplande, in the Burgh of Prestwick. (North Extension) Contract Number 2
BP/1/1A/2 1930 Specification, General Conditions of Contract, Schedule of Quantities and Tender for Sea Wall and Esplande, in the Burgh of Prestwick. North and (South Extension) Contract Numbers 1 and 2
BP/1/1A/3 1930 Specification, General Conditions of Contract, Schedule of Quantities and Tender for Sea Wall and Esplanade, in the Burgh of Prestwick. (South Extension) Contract Number 1
BP/1/1B Prestwick Open-Air Bathing Pool
BP/1/1B/1 2 June 1930 Estimates for Prestwick Open-Air Bathing Pool
BP/1/1B/2 1930 Specification, General Conditions of Contract, Schedule of Quantities and Tender for Prestwick Open-Air Bathing Pool. Steel Piling (Contract Number 3)
BP/1/1B/3 1930 Specification, General Conditions of Contract, Schedule of Quantities and Tender for Prestwick Open-Air Bathing Pool (Contract Number 3) (2 items)
BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/1 Court Record
BP/1/2/1/1 1470 - 1618 Freemen of Prestwick court book (Liber Communitatis)
BP/1/2/2 Freemen of Prestwick Minutes
BP/1/2/2/1 1908 - 1916 Minute book
BP/1/2/2/2 1917 - 1955 Minute book with loose leaf list of Freemen, 1952 and multiple copies of extract of minutes requiring registration of inhabitants of houses within the Burgh, no date
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BP/1/2/4 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/3 Freemen of Prestwick Accounts
BP/1/2/3/1 1918 - 1934 Ordinary accounts book
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/1 26 August 1735 Agnes Lasson, sister of deceased Adam Lasson, weaver, with consent of John Buie in Milholm, her husband
BP/1/2/4/1/2 13 September 1735 David Blair, officer of excise, eldest son of deceased David Blair, merchant tailor in Ayr, reserving right of turf, divot and stones in commonty of Prestwick for use of his houses in Burgh
BP/1/2/4/1/3 12 August 1755 William Neill, son of deceased John Neil in Ayr
BP/1/2/4/1/4 28 August 1759 Robert Hagow, son of deceased Robert Hagow, coal-cutter in Newtoun upon Ayr, on payment of £4 4s sterling as agreed value of his freedom
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BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/13 1759 - 1910 Bundle of various legal papers regarding the Burgh of Prestwick. Bonds between the town of Prestwick and Mathew Neill, 1759 - 1814. Memorial for Burgh of Prestwick regarding the way common lands were divided among free men, 1767. List of new Councillors who gave their oath, 1770. Valuation of the Presbytery of Monkton, 1776. Decree Arbitral regarding election of Magistrates and other office bearers, 1780. Letter to Matthew Dickie from Robert Miller requesting his attendence at a meeting, 1782. Record that petition of minutes was given to and signed by those involved, 1788. 2 accounts of payments of Burgh of Prestwick by Gilbert Dooch, Treasurer, 1790. Letter to Prestwick Magistrates from William McNeight and James Towie regarding decline of proposed feu, 1802. Minutes of petition by William Fullarton, Chancellor of Burgh of Prestwick regarding the division of unappropriated land among Freemen, 1814. Account of the Magistrates and Freemen of Prestwick to William Hutchinson, 1815. Inventory of belongings of William Neill, blacksmith 1816. Specifications for the repair of Kirkgate, 1818. Copy inventory of Burgh papers received from Bailie Smith's family, 1860. List of Prestwick Freemen and small feus, 1887. Fire policy for Burgh hall under name of John Gray, 1893. Opinion of counsel regarding Ayrshire (Loch Bradan) Water Supply Distribution Order, 1910. Measurement of shares of Kirkgate, no date. Document regarding people gathering wreck on the foreshore, accounts noted on back, no date. List of names and heirs to be written into decreet arbitral, no date (27 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/5 25 August 1766 Jean Neill, servant to John Hamilton, officer of excise late in Ayr, now at Greenock, daughter of deceased John Neill, indweller in Ayr
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BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/14 1766 - 1843 Draft of Decision by Magistrates of Prestwick granting feudal title to all Freemen who wish to have one, 1766. Petition of Hugh Smith, Freeman, concerning land, 1772. Receipt from Robert McLean, 1782. Letter from James Hume regarding payment, 1792. Letter from Alexander Walker requesting to become a Freeman, 1803. Memorandum to draw a case between the Magistrates of Prestwick and George Taylor, 1819. Lettter regarding case of McLeod versus Casment regarding building a new church in the parish of Ropkeen, 1830. Copy letter and plan from William Smith regarding railway line, 1839. 3 letters between Bailie Smith and William Campbell regarding meeting of Prestwick Freemen and preparation of case of Prestwick feus, 1841 - 1843. Letter regarding sale of property and land, 1842. Copy of letter regarding building of railway and feuing land between railway and foreshore, 1842. Letter to Bailie Smith regarding arrest and fine of David Boyd due to him gathering wreck on the common shore. Account of the Freemen of Prestwick, 1843. Part of account, no date. 4 copies of record of the enactment of restrictions on vagrants in Prestwick, no date. Accounts of Prestwick, no date (24 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/15 1780 Copy of extract of Decreet Arbitral by Messers John McLaurin and Andrew Crosbie, advocates in the case between the Freemen Burgesses of Prestwick regarding the qualifications of those able to vote for Magistrates and other office bearers and validity of these elections
BP/1/2/4/1/6 28 December 1787 David Reallie, slater and glazier in Ayr, on payment of £29
BP/1/2/4/1/7 23 January 1792 Ann Cuninghame in Sandyford, eldest sister of John Cuninghame, Caprington, on payment of £30
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BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/16 1793 - 1880 Index of chartularies belonging to the Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/8 1 November 1803 William Fullarton of Fullarton, on agreement by Magistrates and Council to receive Alexander Walker, writer in Edinburgh, in his right
BP/1/2/4/1/9 22 December 1834 Agreement and mutual discharge between Margaret McCreath, relict of James Hunter, stocking frame needlemaker, Prestwick, and Janet Neill, only surviving sister of said James, concerning said James' disposition and sale of his freedom to the Magistrates and Councillors of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/10 1842 Papers relating to the proposed granting of feu- rights to Freemen. Four items including: case and opinion for the 36 Freemen; draft minute by the Freemen and community; form of feu disposition by the Magistrates and Councillors to the Freemen
BP/1/2/4/1/11 25 November 1844 Copy memorial and opinion for the trustees under settlement of deceased James Tinning Shiels concerning their right to entry to the 'Prestwick freedom' and right of pasturage thereto attached belonging to the deceased
BP/1/2/4/1/12 21 April 1851 Copy memorial and opinion for Elizabeth Buchan, residing in Prestwick, concerning right of succession to freedom
BP/1/2/4/1/17 1808 - 1908 Minutes of meetings of Prestwick Freemen concerning land, including copy of the decision regarding the division of unappropriated land in Prestwick, land at Carlaverock Road, Burgh Hall, foreshore and lease negotiations with Auchincruive Coal Company (24 items)
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BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/18 1842 Letter to Bailie Smith from William Campbell concerning the length of lease of the Freemen of Burgh of Prestwick and selling of freedoms. Letter regarding attendance of Freemen at meetings (2 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/19 1849 - 1911 3 copies of minutes by Freemen of Burgh of Prestwick 1849. 3 excerpts from minutes of Prestwick Freemen concerning land at Prestwick shore, 1865 - 1902. 3 copies of Charter of Confirmation by Prestwick Freemen in favour of Mrs Annabella Bruce or Wilson and Miss Fanny Wilson, 1911. 3 copies of Writ of Confirmation of land by Prestwick Freemen to Alexander John Bruce, 1911. 3 copies of the decision of the Sheriff Depute respecting the division of unappropriated lands of Burgh of Prestwick, 1911. 3 copies of the Decreet Arbitral by Thomas MacLaurin and Andrew Crosbie regarding division of lands, 1911 (18 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/20 1850 - 1931 Copy of feu disposition by the Magistrates and Councillors of Prestwick to James Hunter, dated 1850. Copy feu right by Burgh of Prestwick to James Hunter, 1877. Copy feu right and disposition by Freemen of Prestwick in favour of Alexander McCubbin, 1884. Copy of disposition and feu right of the Magistrates of Prestwick to William Allason in July 1786, dated 1896. Copy feu disposition by Hugh Glen in favour of David Campbell of subjects in Auchincruive Road, Prestwick, including plan of property, 1897. Draft memorial for Opinion of Counsel for Burgh of Prestwick regarding the feuing of foreshore in Prestwick, 1911. Copy of Decreet Arbital by Thomas McLaurin and Andrew Crosbie regarding debts of Freemen and number of Freemen in Prestwick, 1911. 3 copies of disposition and feu contract and description of various feus granted to the individual Freemen of Prestwick, 1911. Copy of assignation by William Baird and Company Limited in favour of Bairds of Dalmellington Limited of Prestwick mineral lease dated 1931 (10 items)
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BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/23 1904 Record in appeal from the Sheriff Court of Ayrshire at Ayr at the instance of Hugh Boyd and on behalf of the 36 Freemen of the Burgh of Prestwick against Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh concerning rights for feu duties, minerals, Burgh Hall, Smith Row land and St. Nicholas Golf Course land
BP/1/2/4/1/21 1865 - 1914 Bundle containing legal papers regarding Burgh of Prestwick. Excerpts from meetings of Prestwick Freemen regarding extending property boundaries and road encroachments at shore, 1865 - 1902. 2 lists of casualties and relief duties collected by Mr R D Wallace, as Clerk to the Freemen of Prestwick, 1898 - 1908. Extract of Sasine in favour of James Knight, 1902. 2 copies of opinion of Lord Dundas on case of Hugh Boyd and 34 fellow Freemen against Freeman James Cuthill, regarding his refusal to sign the minutes of agreement, 1908. Summons and interlocutor of adjudication in implement in the case of Burgh of Prestwick versus Hugh Boyd and others, regarding the lease of minerals and rights of Freemen, 1908 (2 items). Notes of expenses incurred to William Shaw, solicitor, in connection with lease of Prestwick Minerals to Messrs. William Baird and Company Limited by the Town Council of Prestwick, 1909. Excerpt from disposition and assignation by William Bryan to Robert Doak, 1782, dated 1911. Copy of note of suspension and interdict for Robert Mason versus Burgh of Prestwick, regarding his property at Well Green and expansion of Station Road, 1911. Minute lodged by Robert Manson and Andrew Crawford regarding Well's Green, 1911. Disposition of Charles Boyd to Thomas Mason, regarding land on the west side of Tolbooth, 1863, dated 1911. Provision of valuation of duties of land values of the Town Hall, Prestwick, 1914. Notes of titles of ground in Alexandra Avenue belonging to Mrs Bremner, no date
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/22 1888 - 1889 Correspondence of James Andrew. Letter from John Stephen regarding sleepers on the shore to prevent drifting of sand, 1888. Letter regarding Freemen's access to the shore, 1889
BP/1/2/4/1/24 1904 Copy Petition for the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of Burgh of Prestwick by the Freemen of Prestwick regarding property rights, revenues and ownership of land including Prestwick minerals, Smithy Row and ground on St Nicholas Golf Links
BP/1/2/4/1/25 1904 - 1908 Copy correspondence between Freemen's agent, R D Wallace and Town Clerk, John Stewert, concerning; lending of chartularies, Burgh Hall, common goods and land management, foreshore, Mrs Potter's ground and Burgh of Prestwick versus Freemen court case
BP/1/2/4/1/26 1905 - 1906 Draft copies of minutes of agreements between Burgh of Prestwick and Hugh Boyd for the Freemen of Prestwick and Hugh Boyd regarding dispute over property and land ownership, including the Burgh Hall, Prestwick (4 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/27 1905 - 1908 Opinion of Lord McLaren on appeal of Prestwick Freemen versus Burgh of Prestwick, 1905. Copy letter regarding Prestwick Freemen versus Cuthill, dated 1908
BP/1/2/4/1/28 1908 2 accounts of expenses incurred by Burgh of Prestwick to Alexander Bowie, Edinburgh in the action of declarator against Hugh Boyd and other Freemen and in connection with action against James Cuthill and other Freemen
BP/1/2/4/1/29 1911 Bundle of minutes and a disposition of the Prestwick Freemen
BP/1/2/4/1/30 1911 Copies of opinion of counsel for Burgh of Prestwick regarding Freemen's ownership of land used by the Golf Course (4 items)
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/2 Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1 Correspondence concerning Burgesses and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/31 1912 - 1914 Bundle of papers noting the Lordships applied by Messers William Baird and Company, Auchincruive Collieries, Monkton with reference to Freemen's coal (5 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/32 1926 - 1927 Notice of Redemption of Casualties feu in Ayr Road owned by Robert Mitchell, 1927. Letter to William Shaw from W H McCosh regarding notice of casualties feu of Robert Mitchell. Minute by trustees of the late Robert Manson, Moorfield, Caerlaverock Road Prestwick, entering Helen Mason and Jeanie Mason to the Freemen's Register on behalf of trustees. Memorandum of Commutation between Burgh of Prestwick and Helen Mason and other trustees constituting additional feu duty over subjects known as 'Moorfield,' Prestwick and ground adjoining (4 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/33 1930 List of Prestwick Freemen, 1930. Prestwick Freemen list of unentered parties, no date (3 items)
BP/1/2/4/1/34 No date Inventory of titles and papers relating to Freedom Lands of Burgh of Prestwick handed by Freemen of Prestwick to Town Council of Burgh of Prestwick
BP/1/2/4/1/35 No date Manuscript notes taken from original records of Prestwick in 1478 and 1511 referencing the Bailies and Freemen of Prestwick
BP/1/2/5 Prestwick Freemen Maps and Plans
BP/1/2/5/1 1842 Plan of the lands of Prestwick belonging to the Freeholders
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/3 Town Council Minutes
BP/1/3/1 1726 - 1782 Minute book of Town Council and Freemen
BP/1/3/2 1783 - 1814 Minute book of Town Council and Freemen
BP/1/3/3 1814 - 1855 Minute book of Town Council and Freemen
BP/1/3/4 1903 Minute book
BP/1/3/5 1904 Minute book and copy
BP/1/3/6 1905 Minute book and copy
BP/1/3/7 1906 Minute book
BP/1/3/8 1907 - 1908 Minute book
BP/1/3/9 1908 - 1909 Minute book
BP/1/3/10 1909 - 1910 Minute book
BP/1/3/11 1910 - 1911 Minute book
BP/1/3/12 1911 - 1912 Minute book
BP/1/3/13 1912 - 1913 Minute book
BP/1/3/14 1913 - 1914 Minute book
BP/1/3/15 1914 - 1915 Minute book
BP/1/3/16 1915 - 1916 Minute book
BP/1/3/17 1916 - 1917 Minute book
BP/1/3/18 1917 - 1918 Minute book
BP/1/3/19 1918 - 1919 Minute book
BP/1/3/20 1919 - 1920 Minute book
BP/1/3/21 1920 - 1921 Minute book
BP/1/3/22 1921 - 1922 Minute book
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/3 Town Council Minutes
BP/1/3/23 1922 - 1923 Minute book
BP/1/3/24 1923 - 1924 Minute book
BP/1/3/25 1924 - 1925 Minute book
BP/1/3/26 1925 - 1926 Minute book
BP/1/3/27 1926 - 1927 Minute book
BP/1/3/28 [1927] - 1928 Minute book
BP/1/3/29 1928 - 1929 Minute book
BP/1/3/30 1920 - 1930 Minute book
BP/1/3/31 1930 - 1931 Minute book
BP/1/3/32 1931 - 1932 Minute book
BP/1/3/33 1932 - 1933 Minute book
BP/1/3/34 1933 - 1934 Minute book
BP/1/3/35 1934 - 1935 Minute book
BP/1/3/36 1935 - 1936 Minute book
BP/1/3/37 1936 - 1937 Minute book
BP/1/3/38 1937 - 1938 Minute book
BP/1/3/39 1938 - 1939 Minute book
BP/1/3/40 1939 - 1940 Minute book
BP/1/3/41 1940 - 1941 Minute book
BP/1/3/42 1941 - 1942 Minute book
BP/1/3/43 1942 - 1943 Minute book
BP/1/3/44 1943 - 1944 Minute book
BP/1/3/45 1944 - 1945 Minute book
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/3 Town Council Minutes
BP/1/3/46 1945 - 1946 Minute book
BP/1/3/47 1946 - 1947 Minute book
BP/1/3/48 1947 -1949 Minute book
BP/1/3/49 1949 - 1950 Minute book
BP/1/3/50 1950 - 1951 Minute book
BP/1/3/51 1951 - 1952 Minute book
BP/1/3/52 1952 - 1953 Minute book
BP 1/3/53 1952-1953 Minute book
BP/1/3/53 1953 - 1954 Minute book
BP/1/3/54 1954 - 1955 Minute book
BP/1/3/55 1955 - 1956 Minute book
BP/1/3/56 1956 - 1957 Minute book
BP/1/3/57 1957 - 1958 Minute book
BP/1/3/58 1958 - 1959 Minute book
BP/1/3/59 1959 - 1960 Minute book
BP/1/3/60 1960 - 1961 Minute book
BP/1/3/61 1961 - 1962 Minute book
BP/1/3/62 1962 - 1963 Minute book
BP/1/3/63 1963 - 1964 Minute book
BP/1/3/64 1964 - 1965 Minute book
BP/1/3/65 1965 - 1966 Minute book
BP/1/3/66 1966 - 1967 Minute book
BP/1/3/67 1967 - 1968 Minute book
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/3 Town Council Minutes
BP/1/3/68 1968 - 1969 Minute book
BP/1/3/69 1969 - 1970 Minute book
BP/1/3/70 1970 - 1971 Minute book
BP/1/3/71 1971 - 1972 Minute book
BP/1/3/72 1972 - 1973 Minute book
BP/1/3/73 1973 - 1974 Minute book
BP/1/4 Letter Books
BP/1/4/1 13 February - Letter Book 31 May 1967
BP/1/4/2 1 June - Letter Book 20 October 1967
BP/1/4/3 23 October 1967 Letter Book - 28 March 1968
BP/1/4/4 1 April - 2 July Letter Book 1968
BP/1/4/5 3 August - Letter Book 31 December 1968
BP/1/4/6 3 January - Letter Book 17 June 1969
BP/1/4/7 18 June - 28 Letter Book November 1969
BP/1/4/8 1 December 1969 Letter Book - 26 May 1970
BP/1/4/9 27 May - Letter Book 21 October 1970
BP/1/4/10 22 October 1970 Letter Book - 26 March 1971
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/4 Letter Books
BP/1/4/11 29 March - Letter Book 28 July 1971
BP/1/4/12 28 July 1971 - Letter Book 7 January 1972
BP/1/4/13 10 January - Letter Book 23 May 1972
BP/1/4/14 2 October 1972 - Letter Book 16 February 1973
BP/1/4/15 19 February - Letter Book 21 May 1973
BP/1/4/16 22 May - Letter Book 23 August 1973
BP/1/4/17 24 August - 28 Letter Book December 1973
BP/1/4/18 3 January - Letter Book 16 April 1974
BP/1/5 Burgh Arms
BP/1/5/1 1955 Extract of matriculation of the arms of Burgh of Prestwick to add the motto 'Loyalty, Vigilance, Foresight'
BP/1/6 Town Clerk's Correspondence
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths
Town Clerk, William Shaw, Papers. Documents regarding the development and maintenance of roads and footpaths, including notices, demolition orders, correspondence, plans, minutes, lists of proprietors, memorandums, reports, appeals, agreements and other legal documents
BP/1/6/1/2 1907 - 1927 Bundle of documents relating to Bridge Road, Prestwick. Includes minutes of agreements, interlocutor and notes, minutes of reference, proposed findings by the arbiter, appendix for defenders and reclaimers and correspondence
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/6 Town Clerk's Correspondence
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths
BP/1/6/1/1 1909 - 1910 Three draft interlocutors in Dean of Guild petitions by the Burgh of Prestwick against Andrew J Larke and the trustees of Mrs Jeannie Templeton or Larke, relating to Allanvale Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/3 1918 Provisional order for Glasgow and South Western Railway Company regarding construction and acquisition of lands
BP/1/6/1/25 1922 Copy of agreement between Mrs Margaret Ferguson or Steedman and David Gillespie, regarding garden ground at Whinfield, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/26 1925 Report on a claim made relating to Whinfield Gardens, Prestwick and accompanying correspondence
BP/1/6/1/4 1925 Printed public notice of alterations to Monkton Road and Main Street, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/5 1925 Printed public notice of alterations to Crandleyhill Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/6 1926 Minute of agreement between the Burgh of Prestwick and Alexander MacDonald and Mrs Mary MacDonald, regarding ground at Sandhills, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/7 1928 Bundle of documents relating to New Dykes Road and Caerlaverock Road, Prestwick, includes plans and correspondence
BP/1/6/1/8 1928 - 1929 Bundle of documents relating to New Dykes Road, Prestwick. Includes notices for alterations to pavements regarding New Dykes Road, a list of proprietors of New Dykes Road, plans, contract for construction of a portion of New Dykes Road, citation for William Shaw, agreement between Burgh of Prestwick and Thomas Hastie and correspondence
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/6 Town Clerk's Correspondence
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths
BP/1/6/1/27 1929 Correspondence relating to the laying of tar macadam at the back of the Town Hall, Prestwick and work on the lane behind Main Street, Prestwick properties
BP/1/6/1/9 1930 Public notice for proposed alterations to pavements on Mansewell Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/10 1930 Bundle of documents relating to London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. Includes notice for alterations to pavements regarding Mansewell Road, Prestwick, note of appeal of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company against the Burgh of Prestwick, answers for defenders and a list of proprietors of Mansewell Road
BP/1/6/1/11 1930 Copy of appeal, Captain J Brander Dunbar versus Town Council of Lossiemouth, relating to continuation of Dunbar Street, Lossiemouth. Also includes correspondence and telegram relating to construction of Dunbar Street
BP/1/6/1/28 1931 Documents relating to the reconstruction of Briarhill Road and Crofthead Road, Prestwick, includes correspondence and plan
BP/1/6/1/12 1931 Notices for alterations to pavements relating to Waterloo Road, New Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/13 1933 Bundle of notices for alterations to pavements relating to Grangemuir Road, Prestwick and list of proprietors of Grangemuir Road
BP/1/6/1/14 1933 Bundle of notices for alterations to pavements relating to Newdykes Road, Prestwick and two lists of proprietors of Newdykes Road
BP/1/6/1/15 1934 Bundle of records relating to Oswald Drive, Prestwick, including notices for alterations to pavements, correspondence and list of proprietors
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/6 Town Clerk's Correspondence
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths
BP/1/6/1/16 1934 - 1935 Bundle of records regarding Ayr Road, Prestwick. Includes specification for proposed alterations, petition against Thomas Shearer by the Burgh of Prestwick, excerpts from minutes of meetings of Town Council, correspondence, plans and copy list of offers
BP/1/6/1/17 Not Allocated
BP/1/6/1/18 Not Allocated
BP/1/6/1/19 23 November 1937 Notice regarding reconstruction of pavement, 15 Ladykirk Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/20 23 November 1937 Notice regarding reconstruction of pavement, 12 Broompark Avenue, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/22 1937 - 1938 Reconstruction of footpaths in the third ward and two lists of streets and proprietors
BP/1/6/1/23 1937 - 1938 Large bundle of notices regarding third ward pavements
BP/1/6/1/21 22 November 1938 Signed agreement Town Council and Ministry of Transport regarding Prestwick Cross to Pow Burn - lighting of trunk road
BP/1/6/1/24 1939 Bundle of documents relating to demolition orders. Includes orders for demolition relating to Maryborough Road, Boyd Street and Caerlaverock Road, Prestwick; forms of notice of time and place of decision regarding demolition relating to Maryborough Road, Ayr Road, Boyd Street and Sandfield Road, Prestwick; forms of order for demolition relating to Ayr Road, Prestwick; correspondence and housing committee report by Burgh Engineer on unfit houses
BP/1/6/1/29 1932 Forms of order for demolition relating to Ayr Road and Kirk Street, Prestwick
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/6 Town Clerk's Correspondence
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths
BP/1/6/1/30 1935 Letter from Francis Pritty to William Shaw relating to alterations to Kingscroft Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/31 1935 Folder of documents relating to Caerlaverock Road, Prestwick. Includes memorandums, initial writs, Sheriffdom of Ayrshire defences, copy specifications, correspondence and notices for alterations to pavements in Caerlaverock Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/32 1936 Letter from Hugh Boyd to William Shaw regarding pavements in Boydfield Avenue, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/33 1936 Bundle of notices relating to alterations of Gray Street, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/34 1936 Bundle of notices relating to alterations of Hunter Street, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/35 1936 Bundle of documents relating to second ward pavements. Includes correspondence and list of appeals lodged in connection with the making of Templerigg Street, Prestwick and second ward pavements
BP/1/6/1/36 1936 - 1937 Bundle of documents relating to Adamton Road, Prestwick. Includes notices of a new road from Adamton Road and excerpts from minutes of meeting of roads and footpaths committee and minutes of meeting of Town Council
BP/1/6/1/37 1937 Notice relating to new street from Templerigg Street to Kirk Street, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/38 1937 Notice regarding making of new road off Adamton Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/39 1937 Bundle of correspondence relating to pavements
BP/1/6/1/40 1937 Notice of new street extending from Glenburn Road, Prestwick
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/6 Town Clerk's Correspondence
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths
BP/1/6/1/41 1937 Notice of continuation of streets in Glenburn Rows, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/42 1938 Bundle of documents relating to Marchburn Avenue and Outdale Avenue, Prestwick. Includes notices of appeal, answers for respondents and minutes of meeting of appeal court
BP/1/6/1/43 1938 Demolition order for Caerlaverock Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/44 1938 Bundle of orders for demolition relating to Caerlaverock Road and Kirk Street, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/45 1938 Bundle of documents relating to Lilybank Road, Prestwick. Includes demolition order, correspondence, plans and report by the Burgh engineer
BP/1/6/1/46 1938 Bundle of notices relating to alterations of Boydfield Avenue, Hillside Avenue and Hillside Crescent, Prestwick. Also includes printed public notice regarding the same
BP/1/6/1/47 1938 Notices relating to continuation of Glenburn Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/48 1938 Bundle of notices relating to alterations of footpaths on Midton Road and Midton Avenue, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/49 1939 Bundle of notices relating to alterations of Ferguson Avenue, Aitkenbrae Drive and Outdale Avenue, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/50 1939 Bundle of public notices of alterations to Pleasantfield Road, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/51 1939 Notice of time and place of decision on demolition order relating to Maryborough Road, Prestwick
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/6 Town Clerk's Correspondence
BP/1/6/1 Roads and Footpaths
BP/1/6/1/52 1939 Notices relating to the construction of Pleasantfield Road, New Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/53 1939 Bundle of printed public notices regarding alterations to Ferguson Avenue, Aitkenbrae Drive and Outdale Avenue, Prestwick
BP/1/6/1/54 1947 Demolition order relating to Bellrock Avenue, Prestwick. Also includes report from Medical Officer's Department and notice to occupier to remove from the house
BP/1/6/1/55 1954 Annual Report Law Society of Scotland, Edinburgh
BP/1/6/1/56 1972 Town Clerks record of social events with name, place of event, occasion, date and time
BP/1/7 Publicity and Social Events
BP/1/7/1 1864 [copy of Booklet forming copy and translation of charter document dated dated 1600, presented to William Fullarton of 1600 originally Fullarton, as well as the Bailies, Treasurer, published in 1794] Freemen and Burgesses from Robert Miller, Town Clerk of Prestwick, 1794. Re-issued with names of officials in 1864
BP/1/7/2 1972 - 1973 O E S Hall, Gardiner Street, Prestwick hall booking list for social events
BP/1/8 Loch Bradan Water
BP/1/8/1 3 and 4 April 1908 Troon (Loch Bradan) Water Provisional Order. Proceedings at Inquiry
BP/1/8/2 1908 Troon (Loch Bradan) Water Order Confirmation Act
BP/1/8/3 1908 Troon (Loch Bradan) Provisional Order
BP/1/8/4 1908 Plans of Route of Loch Bradan Conduit (2 items)
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BP/1 Town Clerk's Department
BP/1/8 Loch Bradan Water
BP/1/8/5 May 1910 Ayrshire (Loch Bradan) Water Distribution (Provisional Order). Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick BP/1/8/6 July 1910 Ayrshire (Loch Bradan) Water Distribution Order. Proceedings at Inquiry
BP/1/8/7 July 1912 Booklet for Troon (Loch Bradan) Water Works to be opened by His Grace the Duke of Portland
BP/1/8/8 October 1914 Troon (Loch Bradan) Water. Prestwick's Supply. Statements showing the cost price of Prestwick's share of the water supply
BP/1/8/9 1917 Notes on Arbitration Proceedings between Town Council of Troon and Town Council of Prestwick relating to Troon Loch Braden Water Order
BP/1/8/10 1917 Troon (Loch Bradan) Water, Prestwick Arbitration hydraulic section of conduits drawing
BP/1/8/11 1922 Burgh of Prestwick Engineer's Office Report on Water Supply
BP/1/9 Social and Welfare Administration
BP/1/9/2 1900 - 1908 Fishing Permit stubs
BP/1/9/1 1908 - 1909 Unemployment Relief Cards (10 items)
BP/2 Town Treasurer's Department
BP/2/1 Abstracts of Accounts
BP/2/1/1 1904 - 1910 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/2 1904 - 1917 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/3 1911 - 1915 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/4 1916 - 1920 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/5 1921 - 1925 Abstract of Account
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BP/2 Town Treasurer's Department
BP/2/1 Abstracts of Accounts
BP/2/1/6 1928 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/7 1933 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/8 1934 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/9 1961 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/10 1974 Abstract of Account
BP/2/1/11 1975 Abstract of Account (2 copies)
BP/2/2 Account books
BP/2/2/1 1874 - 1888 Account book, includes details of Burgh feus due, stipend/tiends for crop, and payment for Burgh
BP/2/3 Cash Books
BP/2/3/1 1824 - 1871 Cash book number 1
BP/2/3/2 1871 - 1902 Cash book number 2 including several pages covering Freemen of Prestwick account 1902 - 1903
BP/3 Police Court
BP/3/1 Cases
BP/3/1/1 1903 - 1975 Record of police cases
BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
Town Council correspondence comprises letters, receipts, invoices, all sent to and from the Town Clerk of Prestwick Burgh. These records cover a wide variety of topics and contain a wealth of information. They mention many local family names and occupations, and demonstrate the scope of the work of the Town Clerk. They are arranged in date order, some items have limited description due to fading or fragile nature
BP/4/1/8 1607 Discharge by Robert Hamilton, Minister of Monkton and Prestwick for stipend from R Hamilton
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BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP/4/1/7 1626 Discharge by Robert Hamilton Minister of Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/1/18 20 June 1632 Document relating to William Cunningham of [Caprington]
BP/4/2/130 28 July 1632 Copy of document registered in the Sheriff Court books of Ayr referring to meeting held at Prestwick on 1 July 1619 concerning the lands of the Muirs
BP/4/2/171 1 November 1635 Original charter granted to Sir Hugh Wallace of Craigie by William Fergushill and John Neil [ ] the Bailies of Prestwick. Reported in minutes 1 November 1783
BP/4/1/4 1658 - 1668 Discharge and agreement by Robert Maxwell, Minister of Monkton and Prestwick (7 items)
BP/4/1/11 9 November 1659 Discharge by Peter Orr, schoolmaster at Monkton
BP/4/1/15 1662 Discharge by [William] Neil
BP/4/1/6 1667 Discharge by Robert Steill, Minister of Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/1/1 1668/1669 Discharges for stipend of James Brown, Minister of Monkton and Prestwick (3 items)
BP/4/1/5 1672 Discharge by Robert Steill, Minister of Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/1/16 1673 Discharge by Mr Robert Steill, Minister at Monkton
BP/4/1/3 1674 Discharges by Robert Steill to the Bailies of Prestwick (2 items)
BP/4/1/2 1677 - 1685 Discharges, agreements and mutual contract of Alexander Cunningham, Minister of Monkton and Prestwick (9 items)
BP/4/1/9 1685 Contract
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BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP/4/2/197 20 March 1688 Extracts of Presbytery records anent Monkton and 1 February, 6 June, Prestwick 11 July 1744 6 January 1780
BP/4/1/14 1699/1702 Discharge by Matthew Baird, Minister at Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/1/17 1700/1702 Discharge by Matthew Baird, Minister at Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/1/13 1701 - 1703 Discharge
BP/4/2/173 22 September 1730 Letter to Mr James Neill, merchant in Ayr from Jo[ ] [ ]. Gives information for the Bailies of Prestwick and refers to Wallace's of Craigie, etc
BP/4/2/36 19 January 1749 Instrument between the town of Prestwick and the town of Newton relating to boundary march between said two towns
BP/4/2/37 3 March 1749 - Account due by the town of Prestwick to the 19 February 1750 deceased James McDerment, writer in Ayr
BP/4/2/90 June 1753 Document relating to 7 year [taks] signed by various individuals
BP/4/2/39 31 December 1753 - Account of money laid out by Charles Dalrymple 21 February 1761 of Orangefield for the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/35 18 June 1754 Receipt from Sheriff Clerk Depute, Ayr to the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/179 2 October 1754 Receipt for £5 sterling for payment made by Charles Dalrymple Esquire of Orangefield
BP/4/2/184 18 October 1754 Discharge bill - David Boyd, Prestwick
BP/4/2/182 18 November 1754 William Paton's discharge bill, Prestwick
BP/4/2/40 16 July 1756/13 Receipt signed by Charles Dalrymple for June 1757 payments received from the Bailies of Prestwick
BP/4/2/180 25 November 1756 Receipt for payment to Archibald Campbell, writer in Edinburgh, for carrying on the plea of the magistrates of Prestwick against the town of Newton
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BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP/4/2/185 2 October 1758 Discharge - the Magistrates of Newton to the town of Prestwick for extracting decree of division betwixt the two Burghs in the plea
BP/4/2/1 16 June 1759 Petition by Robert White to the Magistrates of Prestwick for a disposition and feu right to be granted for property and land in Prestwick
BP/4/2/50 29 June 1759 Receipted account from James Neill, Ayr, lawyer and Prestwick Burgh Clerk for work done on behalf of the town between May 1758 and 27 June 1759
BP/4/2/183 29 June 1759 Receipt from William Allison, messenger, Ayr for summoning persons to appear before the Lords of Council and Session and before the Commissioners appointed by the Lords of Session in connection with a process concerning the towns of Newton and Prestwick
BP/4/2/181 13 July - 29 August Account of Prestwick stent money 1759
BP/4/2/178 28 August 1759 Payment made to Robert Haggen, shoemaker in Newton upon Ayr, son of deceased Robert Haggen, Freeman and Burgess of the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/2/176 10 November 1759 Letter from William Gordon, Middle Temple to Alexander Cunninghame regarding an appeal
BP/4/2/195 11 December 1759 Account. Alexander Cunninghame Esquire, writer to the signet, Edinburgh for the town of Prestwick, for the period 15 August 1759 - 10 November 1759
BP/4/2/123 2 February 1760 Letter from Charles Dalrymple, Inveresk to Mr James Neill, writer in Ayr regarding disposition and superiority of property. Calculations on the reverse
BP/4/2/198 8 February 1760 Note from Charles Dalrymple, Edinburgh, to Mr James Neill, writer in Ayr
BP/4/2/7 19 May 1760 Record of roup by the Magistrates, Town Council and Freemen of Prestwick to set off 3 pieces of the Bigg Loch
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BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP/4/2/246 6 June 1760 Discharge of stipend - Mr William Walker to the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/196 15 January 1761 Statement of business concerning Prestwick Freedoms with 9 signatures appended
BP/4/2/51 28 February 1761 Receipted account from James Neill, writer in Ayr, and Prestwick Burgh Clerk for work done on behalf of the town between 29 June 1759 and 7 February 1761
BP/4/2/73 28 February 1761 Account for feus
BP/4/2/84 May 1761 - April Account to the town of Prestwick by James Neill, 1765 writer in Ayr, late clerk of Prestwick Burgh, includes references to salmon fishing and to making out a copy of the town charter. Also receipt dated 27 July 1767
BP/4/2/79 23 October 1761 Certificate for Andrew Paton and John Gottray, having sworn oaths of allegiance before the Sheriff Depute for the shire of Ayr
BP/4/2/98 October 1761 Formal notice regarding the non payment of dues especially the stents of the town
BP/4/2/6 November 1761 - Account. The community of Prestwick to Andrew April 1771 Paton, Ayr
BP/4/2/124 1761 Discharge by Charles Dalrymple, Orangefield to the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/241 10 February 1762 Extract of disposition by Thomas, Earl of Dundonald in favour of Mrs Katherine Blain of the patronage of Prestwick. Registered in Books of Session 7 March 1768. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/118 5 June 1763 Receipt from Andrew Watson for a pinch, pick and mell used in obtaining stones from the quarry
BP/4/2/121 1763/1764 List of Prestwick Stalinders with amounts allocated to each name
BP/4/2/80 1764 - 1765 John Cunningham's treasurers account for the town of Prestwick
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BP/4/2/76 1765 Receipt from William [Urce], schoolmaster for salary, Martinmass 1762 to Whitsunday 1765
BP/4/2/174 17 April 1765 Agreement anent a salmond cable betwixt William Ralston and others and John Guthrie and others
BP/4/2/119 14 June 1766 Record of the meeting of the Bailies and community to allocate lots
BP/4/2/116 July 1766 and Account from David R[ ] regarding work for the 23 January 1767 manse another account on reverse from David R[ ] regarding work for the manse
BP/4/2/71 17 November 1766 Years account of the election dinner
BP/4/2/72 1766 Account
BP/4/2/85 7 February 1767 Record of meeting held within the tollbooth of Prestwick at which the Freemen were required to vote on whether to roup the grounds called the Peat Holes or to divide them in lots with the obligations which the lot holders would be required to fulfill. On the reverse the votes are recorded in detail
BP/4/2/107 7 March 1767 Attested copy of the interlocutor pronounced by Lord Haills on the bill of suspension offered for John Guthrie and others in Prestwick against the Magistrates of Prestwick. Certificate from the Clerk to the Bills
BP/4/2/67 17 September 1767 Summons concerning land division
BP/4/2/120 21 November 1767 - Account of the community of Prestwick to Andrew 21 November 1769 Paton
BP/4/4/108 23 November 1767 - Accounts between William Fullarton Esquire of October 1780 Rosemount and the Magistrates and Town Council of Prestwick to Matt Dickie
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BP/4/2/87 8 November 1768 Letter to Bailies Paton and Caldwell of Prestwick from Matthew Dickie, Kilmarnock arranging to meet them and their friends in Prestwick the following day to discuss their cause. List of names on reverse
BP/4/2/63 23 November 1768 Letter to James Blair, Chancellor and Magistrate of Prestwick from Matt Dickie requiring answers to his letters. Refers to an election and land measurement
BP/4/2/86 25 November 1768 Account. The community of Prestwick to Andrew Paton, Ayr
BP/4/2/64 30 November 1768 Letter to Mr Thomas Potter, baker in Ayr to be forwarded to him in haste from Matt Dickie an Edinburgh lawyer, refers to an election, a petition and land measurement
BP/4/2/115 3 December 1768 Letter to Mr Thomas Potter, baker in Ayr from Matt Dickie, Edinburgh, regarding election and petition. Account on reverse, written in a different hand
BP/4/2/117 5 December 1768 Letter to James Blair, Chancellor, Andrew Caldwell and Andrew Paton, Bailies of Prestwick from Will Gairdner, Ladykirk giving his observations regarding the valuations of the lotts. Detailed accounts of payment made on the reverse in a different handwriting
BP/4/2/88 1768 Letter from Matthew Dickie to James Blair, Chancellor, and the Magistrates of Prestwick regarding queries on the petition and valuation of the [latts]. Some calculations on the reverse
BP/4/2/122 9 [ ] 1768 Letter from Matt Dickie, Edinburgh, to Mr Alex Forsythe, writer in Ayr now Clerk to the 28 March 1769 Magistrates of Prestwick. The former requires answers to his queries. On the reverse in a different hand are accounts
BP/4/2/74 13 March 1769 Receipt from Alex Forsyth
BP/4/2/111 18 March 1769 Detailed account and receipt of John Craig, Burgh Officer with calculations on reverse
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BP/4/2/191 21 November 1769 Bond for £150 sterling. The Magistrates and Council of Prestwick to William Fullarton Esquire
BP/4/2/77 1769 Memorandum anent Matthew Neills' bond
BP/4/2/240 1769 Accounts for salmon fishing
BP/4/2/175 1 December 1770 - Account of M Dickie's outlays 1 November 1771
BP/4/2/99 15 December 1770 Certificate for Andrew Caldwell and Andrew Paton for swearing the oaths of allegiance and abjuration before the Sheriff Depute of the shire of Ayr
BP/4/2/189 31 December 1771 Petition of John Bryann, Indweller in Prestwick to the Right Honorable Sheriff Depute of Ayr regarding a dispute over boundary dykes
BP/4/2/186 15 October 1774 Renounciation by James Blair of Freedom of Prestwick belonging to John Findlay
BP/4/2/2 5 May 1775 Discharge and assignation by William Andrew and brothers to David Boyd
BP/4/2/53 11 August 1775 Copy of interlocutor in the submission among the Freemen of Prestwick
BP/4/2/187 29 December 1775 Barbara Paton's petition to William Fullarton of Rosemount concerning her sons right to inherit her late husbands Freedom of Prestwick
BP/4/2/82 1775 - 1778 Prestwick sheep roll, lists persons and number of sheep allocated plus calculations
BP/4/2/8 24 January 1776 Copy of letter from James McCalla and John Campbell, Ayr to Messrs. Crosbie and McLauren, Edinburgh, enclosing estimates of such parts of Prestwick lands as they think ought to be of interest to all concerned to be loted off and divided among the Freemen. Sale of the land would clear the community's debt
BP/4/2/54 January 1776 Copy of letter from Mr John Campbell to Mr Crosbie anent lands of Prestwick
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BP/4/2/55 9 March 1776 Copy of the interlocutor in the submission among the Freemen of Prestwick relative to the division of their lands and other matters
BP/4/2/190 9 March 1776 Certified copy of interlocutor of the arbiters amongst the Freemen of Prestwick regarding the division of their lands and other matters
BP/4/2/93 May 1778 Account from Charles McCracken, Treasurer for the Burgh of Prestwick to John Black concerns inter alia Jean Dunlop and children
BP/4/2/52 2 August 1779 - Account to the town of Prestwick from Robert 10 January 1784 Campbell, writer in Edinburgh
BP/4/2/68 1779 List for the committee for regulating the Burgh of Prestwick, lists sums of money, numbers of sheep and 36 freedoms allocated to persons named. List of names on the reverse
BP/4/2/248 21 February 1781 Receipt by William Fullerton of Rosemount for money owed to him by the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/103 9 March 1781 Receipt from John Gibb and Company, Ayr, for timber with 'discount for ready money'
BP/4/2/95 6 April 1781 Receipt paid by Andrew Caldwell, Treasurer, to John Black for summonding Jean Dunlop, relict of John Guthrie in Prestwick and ten children
BP/4/2/56 18 June 1781 Receipt by William Crone for monies received from Andrew Caldwell
BP/4/2/65 28 June 1781 Minutes of Prestwick Council Meeting at which Andrew Caldwell, Burgh Treasurer lists the several persons owing money to the Burgh
BP/4/2/66 30 June 1781 Receipt for deals - timber and nails from William Murdoch
BP/4/2/104 June - October 1781 Receipt from David Ewen for planks, nails and slates
BP/4/2/61 15 July 1781 Receipted account from John Hunter
BP/4/2/101 September 1781 - Receipt from Hugh McGrigor for work undertaken July 1782 on the tollbooth
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BP/4/2/105 12 January 1782 Receipt from George Porter, innkeeper for boarding Mr William Bell, land surveyor and writer in Edinburgh and his assistants for 14 days in October 1780 while surveying and planning the 36 lots of arable land in Prestwick
BP/4/2/91 July 1782 Receipt by Robert Borland
BP/4/2/5 27 October 1782 List of 29 names with varying sums of money payable to the Magistrates of Prestwick
BP/4/2/4 16 November 1782 Account for legal services by Matthew Dickie, writer signet, Edinburgh to the Magistrates and Town Council of Prestwick relating to William Fullarton Esquire of Rosemount
BP/4/2/12 1782 - 1794 List of persons charged at the instance of Doctor Andrew Mitchell, Minister of Monkton for stipend
BP/4/2/102 May 1784 Receipt from John Smith for work in connection with the tollbooth
BP/4/2/94 12 June 1784 Receipt paid by Andrew Caldwell, Treasurer to John Ramsay for attending the roup of big meadows
BP/4/2/244 1784/1785 Accounts for work done to the town of Prestwick by William Smith, officer
BP/4/2/70 13 January 1785 Receipt from Robert Carson, schoolmaster for 3s 4d being part payment of his salary due out of the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/242 8 August 1785 Letter to Bailie Boyd from Robert Miller, Ayr regarding a feu contract concerning Mrs Oswald as Liferentress and George Oswald Esquire as Fiar Vassals of Prestwick
BP/4/2/100 16 August 1785 Letter to Mr James Neil of Schaw, writer in Ayr, from J MacLaurie, George Square acknowledging receipt of ten guineas for his trouble in the submission respecting Prestwick affairs
BP/4/2/113 17 February 1786 Receipt from Will Crawford for measuring and planning these lands
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BP/4/4/107 22 March 1787 Document concerning a legal ruling of the Lords of Council and Session regarding the property of Alexander Caldwell
BP/4/2/58 28 October 1788 Receipted account from Gilbert Doak for carting stones
BP/4/2/96 1788 Account of work done at the new bridge, signed John Cunningham, James Hunter and John Wharry
BP/4/2/200 24 January 1789 Account. Gilbert Doak, against the town when Bailie, for period 12 November 1784 - 17 August 1785
BP/4/2/114 4 June 1789 Receipt from Robert Carson for repairs to Monkton manse
BP/4/2/106 22 April 1789 Receipt from John Guthrie for two pairs of hand spoks
BP/4/2/69 21 May 1789 Account by John Guthrie for the measurement of the road from the 'Ride Yeate to the Comane' [common], being 121 falls at 3yd per fall. Signed receipt on reverse by Adam Hunter and John Boyd dated 22 May 1789
BP/4/2/59 3 June 1789 Note of balance due by Gilbert Doak, Prestwick 18 February 1790 Burgh Treasurer, to Mr Fullarton obliging himself to pay in a few days - reverse notes, 'paid in full'
BP/4/2/57 18 October 1789 Receipted funeral account for expenses in burying in the churchyard of Prestwick a man and a boy lost out of the Susanna Packet of Inverary
BP/4/2/92 28 December 1789 Receipt by James Neill with calculations on the reverse
BP/4/2/112 17 February 1790 Receipt from James Hunter for nine months interest due to him by the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/60 14 June 1790 Receipt signed by Robert Carsone, Monkton for nine shillings and sevenpence sterling being in full of his school salary from Whitsunday 1789 to Whitsunday 1790
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BP/4/2/109 22 June 1790 Receipt from Robert Carson for repairs made to Monkton manse, kirkyard dyke and schoolhouse during the summer of 1789
BP/4/2/62 1 November 1790 Receipt from Gilbert Doak
BP/4/2/234 1791 Receipt from Alexander Smith, writer in Ayr, for legal work
BP/4/5/174 13 January and 9 Finding of William Craig Esquire, advocate, Sheriff February 1792 Depute of Ayrshire against Prestwick Councillors for cutting bent from the Prestwick hill, each to make payment of £10 scots. On reverse is witness statement signed John Blacklock
BP/4/4/102 15 February 1792 Petition to the Bailies of Prestwick against named persons for non payment of feu rents
BP/4/2/209 9 June 1792 Agreement regarding the bog meadow and upkeep of the road until all the hay be brought out of the meadow. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/233 5 July 1793 Receipt from Robert Carson for proportion of school salary due by the Burgh for the crop and year 1792
BP/4/2/9 6 July 1793 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the stipend of the Minister of Monkton and Prestwick, Reverend Doctor Andrew Mitchell
BP/4/2/3 22 July 1793 Letter by William McFarlane, writer signet, 2 August 1793 Edinburgh to the Magistrates of Prestwick giving legal advice on their purchasing teinds, and a copy of their reply
BP/4/2/10 2 September 1793 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the stipend of the Minister of Monkton and Prestwick, Reverend Doctor Andrew Mitchell
BP/4/2/207 1793 - 1797 Account. Magistrates of Prestwick with William McFarlane, writer signet
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BP/4/2/237 10 January and 22 Receipt from Robert Carson for repair on Monkton February 1794 manse and offices
BP/4/2/11 17 January 1794 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the stipend of the Minister of Monkton and Prestwick, Reverend Doctor Andrew Mitchell. Plus a detailed table listing the locality of the stipend of Monkton, Prestwick and Crosbie and the compilation thereof
BP/4/2/223 21 February 1794 Bill from the town of Prestwick to Bailie James Hunter
BP/4/2/247 1794/1797 State of rents due by the Heritors of Prestwick to Doctor Mitchell in 1794 and discharge of these rents by the Heritors in 1797
BP/4/2/13 22 January 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/225 11 July 1795 Receipt from Robert Carson for payment of proportion of school salary for crop and year 1794
BP/4/2/14 25 July 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/15 3 November 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, regarding the bill of suspension against Doctor Andrew Mitchell
BP/4/2/16 6 November 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/17 7 November 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
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BP/4/2/18 13 November 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/19 19 November 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/20 27 November 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving details of the bond of caution
BP/4/2/224 1 December 1795 Bill numbered 1263
BP/4/2/21 4 December 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/22 19 December 1795 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/203 26 February 1796 Receipt from Robert Miller for £3, against his account against the town
BP/4/2/23 7 June 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/24 18 June 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/139 20 June 1796 Receipts for payment to repair of Monkton schoolhouse to James Hunter and payment of school salary to Robert Carson
BP/4/2/25 21 June 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
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BP/4/2/26 23 June 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/27 5 July 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/28 18 October 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, giving legal advice on the ministers stipend
BP/4/2/29 9 November 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, stating that only an ecclesiastical court could enforce the order for Doctor Mitchell to preach every third Sunday in Prestwick and the possible cost of repairing the church
BP/4/2/220 23 November 1796 James Hunters bill for £30
BP/4/2/30 16 December 1796 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, regarding the desire to pay ministers' stipend to the poor. Minister now to preach every third Sunday in Prestwick
BP/4/2/159 1796 Accounts for year showing disbursements due to John Boyd
BP/4/2/222 1796 Account of payments by Bailie James Hunter for the Burgh of Prestwick at the Presbyteries held at Ayr on Doctor Mitchell, Monkton
BP/4/2/236 4 January 1797 Letter to Messrs Whary and Cunningham, Magistrates of Prestwick, care of Mr Robert Miller, writer in Ayr, from William MacFarlane, St James Court, Edinburgh regarding Doctor Mitchell's stipend. Calculations on reverse
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BP/4/2/238 17 January 1797 Letter to Messrs Whary and Cunningham, Magistrates of Prestwick, care of Mr Robert Millar, writer in Ayr from William MacFarlane, St James Court, Edinburgh regarding Doctor Mitchell's stipend. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/235 2 February 1797 Letter to Messrs Whary and Cunningham, Magistrates of Prestwick, care of Mr Robert Miller, writer in Ayr, from William MacFarlane, St James Court, Edinburgh regarding Doctor Mitchell's stipend. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/214 5 April 1797 Receipt from Robert Carson for proportion of school salary due out of the burgh for the crop and year 1796
BP/4/2/216 3 May 1797 Receipt from Robert Miller for payment of part of his account against the town
BP/4/2/211 25 May 1797 Letter to the Honorable Magistrates of Prestwick from William Boag, Maryburgh Pans, complaining about the sheep spoiling the pans. He does not want a law suit and hopes they are of the same opinion
BP/4/2/227 1 June 1797 Receipt from William Kerr in respect of part payment for his trouble for inspecting the Kirk of Prestwick
BP/4/2/206 3 July 1797 Estimate by Gilbert Doak for repairs to Prestwick Kirk
BP/4/2/212 6 July 1797 John Muir's estimate for the repairs of Prestwick Church
BP/4/2/230 6 July 1797 Estimate by John Guthrie to repair Prestwick Kirk
BP/4/2/205 11 July 1797 Agreement with John Guthrie, wright in Prestwick, to undertake plasterwork and woodwork on the Church of Prestwick
BP/4/2/204 20 July 1797 Letter to Messrs Wharry and Cunningham, Magistrates of Prestwick, care of Robert Miller, writer in Ayr, from William MacFarlane, James Court, Edinburgh regarding his account with the town
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BP/4/2/221 29 July 1797 Receipt from Robert Carson for payment by Mr David Smith, Treasurer for the town of Prestwick for the proportions due by the town for the repair on Monkton manse and offices
BP/4/2/201 17 November 1797 Letter from William Wallace to Messrs Cunningham and McWharrie, Bailies, Prestwick, for advance of £10 on his freedom
BP/4/2/215 1797 Receipt for cloth and silk
BP/4/2/199 27 April 1798 Letter from Robert Reid, Adamton, to the Magistrates of the Burgh of Prestwick regarding clearing of drains in the Sanquhar Meadow. Calculations and tally marks on reverse
BP/4/2/131A 6 May 1798 Receipt from John Boyd, road money for himself and a horse for the year 1797. Signed by Robert Carson, Collector
BP/4/2/226 30 May 1798 Note signed by John Wharry and John Cunningham
BP/4/2/213 6 June 1798 Receipt from Robert Carson for proportion of school salary due out of the Burgh for the crop and year 1797
BP/4/2/217 15 August 1798 Receipt from Robert Miller for payment of part of his account against the town
BP/4/2/218 23 August 1798 Receipt from David Boyd for going to Ayr 24 times at six pence per time
BP/4/2/31 27 August 1798 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, regarding teinds
BP/4/2/32 14 November 1798 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet
BP/4/2/157 16 November 1798 Certificate for John Boyd, having sworn the oaths of allegience and abjuration before Sheriff Substitute of Ayrshire
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BP/4/2/167 21 November 1798 Letter to Messrs Boyd and Borland, Magistrates of Prestwick from William MacFarlane, Edinburgh regarding the locality of Monkton being before the court regarding tiends
BP/4/2/128 1 December 1798 Bill - paid on 29 February 1802
BP/4/2/160 20 February - Accounts for the period 29 May 1799
BP/4/2/141 25 April 1799 Receipt for payment to Robert Miller
BP/4/2/153 April/May 1799 Account of men's charges for valuing the lands of Prestwick and attending proofs
BP/4/2/140 1 May 1799 Receipt for payment to George Campbell for business undertaken
BP/4/2/162 29 May 1799 - Accounts for the period 19 February 1800
BP/4/2/134 29 July 1799 Letter to the Magistrates and Town Council of Prestwick from Thomas Daniel. A petition concerning a feu proposal
BP/4/2/154 29 November 1799 Receipt for payment of interest to David Boyd, John Boyd, Robert Borland and Robert Hunter
BP/4/2/125 1799/1800 Receipt from Robert Carson for Doctor Mitchell for 3/9d sterling being the old stipend due for the freedom formerly Jess Wallace's now in the towns own hands for crops
BP/4/2/163 19 February - Accounts for the period 13 November 1800
BP/4/2/136 12 April 1800 Receipt from Robert Carson for school salary paid out of crops for years 1798 and 1799
BP/4/2/33 14 July 1800 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet intimating intended visit of Mr Grierson to Ayrshire and asking them to co-operate in pointing out the boundaries
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BP/4/2/165 24 July 1800 Part of a letter addressed from Mount Hamilton to the Magistrates of Prestwick regarding clearing the drains betwixt the lands of Prestwick and the Sanquhar Meadow and the March of Shields round to the March of Highfield
BP/4/2/143 20 September 1800 Receipt for payment to Robert Manson for repairing the church doorlock with calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/158 1 October 1800 Account for proportion of account for repairs of Monkton Kirk due by the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/137 13 October 1800 Receipt for payment to Jean Simson
BP/4/2/129 18 October - Receipt paid to John Wharry for work in 3 November 1800 connection with the new bridge
BP/4/2/239 20 October 1800 Disposition and resignation, John Neill to the town of Prestwick of his inherited right of Freeman of the Burgh
BP/4/2/138 29 October 1800 Receipt for payment to John Boyd
BP/4/2/145 4 November 1800 Account for election dinner
BP/4/2/34 25 November 1800 Correspondence to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh from their Edinburgh agent, William McFarlane Esquire, writer signet, advising them to allow Mr Reid to make a measurement at his own expense and left to do it as best he can
BP/4/2/152 29 November 1800 Letter addressed Sir and signed with the initial J. Concerns the lands of Prestwick. Possibly a communication between two lawyers
BP/4/2/166 29 November 1800 Receipt for payment of school salary to Robert Carson from Martinmas 1799 to Martinmas 1800
BP/4/2/168 6 December 1800 Receipt for payment to John Boyd with calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/142 21 May 1801 Receipt for payment to William McFarlane, Edinburgh
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BP/4/2/132 27 May 1801 Specification and contract arranged, agreed and allocated at the quarterly meeting for the building of a smiddy
BP/4/2/146 29 May 1801 Letter from Robert Hunter to Bailie John Boyd, seems to relate to the building of the smiddy and to indicate a certain tension between the parties concerned
BP/4/2/169 2 June 1801 - 25 Accounts. Examined 23 November 1802 October 1802
BP/4/2/164 15 July 1801 Letter from John Neil, Brighton possibly to William [ ] Boyd regarding the purchase of a house by Mr Allison. Appended are eleven names and four columns of figures
BP/4/2/148 19 August 1801 Minutes of meeting to consider the report on the amount of the town common which is arable, at which it was decided to call a general meeting of the Freemen
BP/4/2/193 26 August 1801 Minutes of a meeting of the Freemen concerning the re-allocation of the 36 lots in order to improve agriculture. Proposed changes to include ballots every 99 years instead of 9 years. The meeting was adjourned to Monday 5 October 1801
BP/4/2/131 10 - 28 October Account connected with the division of the lands of 1801 the Burgh
BP/4/3/88 15 November 1801 Receipt for postage and stamps, signed by John Gray, treasurer
BP/4/3/24 25 November 1801 - Treasurer's accounts with the Burgh of Prestwick 31 May 1802
BP/4/2/127 12 December 1801 Receipt from Robert Carson, Monkton for school salary
BP/4/2/151 1 January 1802 Receipt for payment to Oswald Weir for clearing the drains
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BP/4/2/150 13 February 1802 Letter to the Chancellor and Bailies of Prestwick from Alexander Walker, Edinburgh, owner of a house in Prestwick built to accommodate his family in the summer season and making an offer for another of the town's freedoms so that he can be enabled to maintain a horse and a cow
BP/4/2/149 16 February 1802 Offer made by David Boyd for the freedom at the [ried]See gate
BP/4/2/133 17 February 1802 Offer for a freedom
BP/4/2/156 17 February 1802 Offer from Patrick McNeight, Barns of Ayr to become a Freeman of Prestwick
BP/4/2/126 27 February 1802 Receipt from David Boyd for attending the division of the lands of Prestwick
BP/4/2/144 27 February 1802 Receipt for payment to David Boyd for undertaking itemised town business
BP/4/2/147 25 July 1802 Receipt for payment to David Boyd
BP/4/2/135 31 August 1802 Receipts for attending the dividing and measuring of the land signed by David Boyd, John Boyd, Alex Guthrie and David Smith with calculations on the reverse
BP/4/2/155 28 October 1802 Receipt for payment to James Hunter for attending eleven days at dividing the lands of the Burgh with calculations on the reverse
BP/4/1/19 November 1802 - Outlays for the town of Prestwick December 1803
BP/4/4/120 15 December 1803 - Burgh accounts 22 November 1804
BP/4/2/110 3 January 1805 Printed receipt from Cess Office, Ayr, for the second contribution towards defraying the deficiency of the expense of 1000 Stand of Arms, commissioned for the use of the County of Ayr in aid of Government
BP/4/2/208 4 February 1805 Covering note from William Hutchison, Ayr, to Magistrates of Prestwick
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BP/4/2/231 20 February 1805 Letter from William Hutchison, Ayr, to the Magistrates of Prestwick Burgh. Sorry he could not attend magistrates meeting but sent his clerk. Encloses Mr Finlay's letter and will come out himself on Saturday if his clerk cannot deal with any matter
BP/4/2/194 27 December 1805 Letter to Mr William Hutchison, writer in Ayr, from James Findlay, Craig's Close, Edinburgh, advises that Prestwick and Mr Allason, tackman, should settle their dispute without going to law. Concerns the improper management of the burgh's coal supply
BP/4/2/188 24 January 1806 Letter to the Magistrates of Prestwick from William Allason, Annbank, regarding the discussion at a council meeting, the matter of which had been conveyed to him. Hints of his differing views from those of the council members
BP/4/4/85 3 March 1806 Agreement between the Freemen of Prestwick and William Allason, Whitehill regarding coal tack
BP/4/4/90 5 November 1806 Letter to the Magistrates and Council of Prestwick from William Allason regarding Prestwick Colliery
BP/4/2/192 22 November 1806 Accounts for period 30 November 1805 - 15 November 1806
BP/4/3/31 1807 - 1840 Memoranda as to Bellrock Salt Pans
BP/4/4/88 16 January 1810 Letter from William Allason, Ayr to the Magistrates of Prestwick making an offer jointly with George Taylor for the coal lease
BP/4/3/217 25 January 1810 Tender for obtaining coal rights on the lands of Prestwick by Gilbert Mc[ ], Joppa, offer includes the supply of 20 free creels of coals yearly for distribution to the poor of the parish
BP/4/6/432A 13 March - 11 Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of September 1811 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
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BP/4/3/27 5 September 1811 Extract of coal tack between the Magistrates of Prestwick and John Taylor and Sons, gives authority for firm to build a harbour anywhere along Prestwick shore and construct necessary roads and buildings
BP/4/4/89 18 June 1813 Document addressed to Provost Boyd, Prestwick from Alexander Murdoch concerning grievance of David Coulthard Esquire of Poebank regarding road access and land transfers. Refers to the decision of the Sheriff Substitute
BP/4/6/432 11 September 1813 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 12 February 1814 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/6/431 2 February 1814 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 3 February 1815 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/6/430 3 February 1815 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 3 February 1816 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/6/429 2 February - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 2 August 1816 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/48 17 February 1816 Petition to the Sheriff Depute by Robert Hunter complaining against William Smith who has lately caused a road to be built across said riggs which he does not possess. Copy addressed to William Smith, Freeman, Prestwick signed by John Siller
BP/4/6/428 3 August 1816 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 1 February 1817 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/173 5 August 1816 Decreet, David Boyd, Burgh Treasurer against 5 persons named within for recovery of dues owing to the Burgh
BP/4/3/214 14 November 1816 Petition Andrew Caldwell, Procurator Fiscal to magistrates concerns lifting of wrack from the shore by James Hunter, innkeeper
BP/4/5/61 16 November 1816 Bailie Court confession of James Hunter and decision of the Court
BP/4/6/427 2 February - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 1 August 1817 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
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BP/4/5/163 21 February 1817 Petition by Andrew McCarler to order a warrant of sequestration against George Spence, weaver in Prestwick for non payment of rent
BP/4/5/171 27 June 1817 Specifications for the new course of the Pow Burn
BP/4/6/426 2 August 1817 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 2 February 1818 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/169 8 August 1817 Case against John Robertson, vagrant. He voluntarily consented to banish himself from the Burgh with certification not to return or be found within the same on pain of being pilloried or imprisoned
BP/4/5/65 4 September 1817 Record of a case concerning a stolen piece of cloth. The witness being unable to speak English, two named persons were called as interpretors. The decision of the Magistrates was for 'the pannels to be publicly drummed forth of the Burgh'
BP/4/4/77 1817 and State of incomes of John Dick's freedom, 1817 7 December 1820 and minutes of Council meeting 7 December 1820
BP/4/6/425 3 February - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 1 August 1818 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/153 7 May 1818 Petition by David Bone regarding property dispute heard by the Magistrates of Prestwick
BP/4/5/170 18 May 1818 Indictment of Andrew Cuningham, David Caldwell and Robert Neill, masons in the Burgh of Prestwick regarding assault on John Wallace, Court Officer and others
BP/4/5/172 27 May 1818 Proof and decreet against Andrew Cuningham, David Caldwell and Robert Neill in case regarding assault on John Wallace, Court Officer and others
BP/4/5/172A 30 May 1818 Confirmation of payment of fines by Andrew Cuningham, David Caldwell and Robert Neill in case regarding assault on John Wallace, Court Officer and others
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BP/4/3/205 21 June 1818 Contract with John Hunter to build a sufficient dyke about the church yard of Prestwick
BP/4/6/423 3 August 1818 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 4 February 1820 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/6/424 3 August 1818 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 2 February 1819 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/64 12 November 1818 Depositions of Jessie Boyd, defendant and five male witnesses who vouched for seeing her asleep in bed at 11 o'clock
BP/4/6/422 3 February - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 2 August 1819 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/51 13 February 1819 Petition of Margaret Cunningham, wife of John Campbell labourer to the Magistrates of the Burgh of Prestwick against Alexander McClymont, weaver - a case of sexual harassment
BP/4/3/21 15 February 1819 Deposition of Mary Lindsay, deposition of Janet Runchy, bond of William McClymont, passed by the Bailies of the Burgh with consent to registration in the court books of the Burgh
BP/4/3/202 19 February 1819 Bond of caution of Andrew Cunningham for David Cunningham, Prestwick
BP/4/3/26 17 July 1819 Copy tack between Burgesses and Freemen of Burgh of Prestwick and George Taylor Esquire, coal master, Newton, for quarry rights
BP/4/4/84 1819 - 1820 Burgh accounts. Includes payment for sending arms to Ayr; expenses; supplying coal to the poor and sending four cripples to Newton
BP/4/6/421 5 February - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 4 August 1820 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/4/74 22 February 1820 State of incomes of John Dick's freedom February 1817 - 15 February 1821
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BP/4/3/206 19 April 1820 Record of sentence against William Joyce, who is to be driven out of the Burgh with certification that in case of his ever returning he will be punished with the pilorey, whipping and imprisonment and any person harbouring or keeping him or giving him assistance in meat or drink will be subjected to the penalty of 20 shillings sterling
BP/4/5/60 22 April 1820 Bailie Court depositions signed by John Hunter and Alex Campbell regarding a misrepresented dispute and decision of arbiters, signed by John Boyd and William Smith
BP/4/6/420 5 August 1820 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 2 February 1821 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/3/208 9 October 1820 Minutes of case concerning broken windows, accused found guilty and she and husband fined
BP/4/5/155 11 October 1820 Complaint of Procurator Fiscal against Peter Higgins, weaver in Prestwick accused of breaching the peace and resisting arrest by the officer
BP/4/4/87 [27] November Schedule of protest by Charles Guthrie to John [1820] Boyd and others as Freemen of the Burgh of Prestwick, includes detailed reference to the Charter of James VI dated 19 June 1600
BP/4/3/204 15 January 1821 Minutes of case of assault, accused found guilty, fined and ordered to be incarcerated in the Burgh jail until the fines be paid. Includes signed bonds of surety
BP/4/5/156 15 January 1821 Bond of caution regarding three weavers in Prestwick found guilty of breach of the peace. Also gives a list of 28 names and some calculations which do not seem to relate to the main document
BP/4/6/419 3 February - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 3 August 1821 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/4/44 4 August 1821 - Account by John Taylor and Sons to the town of 1 February 1822 Prestwick for lordship on coals sold from the Toll and Prestwick pits. Gives detailed statistics
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BP/4/4/104 4 August 1821 Receipt from James Edie, collector, Monkton for part payment of the fourth instalment for the manse
BP/4/5/63 16 October 1821 Petition by Margaret Smith to the Magistrates of Prestwick to protect herself and her children from the threats of Andrew [Hannay], weaver and the outcome
BP/4/4/105 10 December 1821 Receipt for augmented stipend to the Ministers of Monkton for the years 1803 and 1804
BP/4/4/76 1821 Accounts and calculations regarding John Dick's freedom
BP/4/4/76A 1821 Accounts and calculations regarding John Dick's freedom
BP/4/6/434 1821 - 1887 State of claim by Hugh Boyd, Freeman, Prestwick of overcharge of feu duty of the subjects in Smithy Row, Prestwick by the Burgh of Prestwick from Martinmas 1821 to Martinmas 1887 inclusive with interest on overcharge
BP/4/3/222 1822 Treasurers accounts
BP/4/6/418 2 February - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 2 August 1822 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/143 21 February 1822 Warrant for Doctor John Nicoll and others to examine Agnes Ferguson daughter of Elizabeth, wife of Samuel McMillan, stocking weaver, Prestwick. Warrant issued by the Bailie Court - suspected of pregnancy
BP/4/6/417 3 August 1822 - Account from John Taylor and Sons for lordship of 31 January 1823 coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/3/51 1823 Account for Mr Campbell's freedom. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/4/86 15 [ ] 1823 Letter to the treasurer of the Ayr Coal Company, Prestwick from Richard Campbell, Craigie House regarding coal lordship
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BP/4/5/71 1823 Bond of caution of William Sommerville and Robert Newall, weavers regarding Robert Workman
BP/4/6/416 1 February - Account from the trustees of John Taylor and 1 August 1823 Sons for lordship of coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/49 24 May 1823 Petition to the Magistrates of the Burgh of Prestwick signed by Thomas Fowles regarding a boundary dispute with James Frew with outcome signed by David Boyd and William Smith
BP/4/5/49A 24 May 1823 Petition to the Magistrates of the Burgh of Prestwick signed by Thomas Fowles regarding a boundary dispute with James Frew with outcome signed by David Boyd and William Smith
BP/4/4/103 5 June 1823 Letter to William Hutchison, writer, Ayr from Robert Reid, Adamton regarding stipend payment, refers to purchase of property in 1792
BP/4/5/59 17 July 1823 Copy of letter from David Boyd and William Smith, Prestwick to the trustees upon the estate of Messrs John Taylor and Sons claiming payment of coal lordship and requiring action on current activities at the coal working
BP/4/6/415 2 August 1823 - 30 Account from the trustees of John Taylor and January 1824 Sons for lordship of coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/70 28 January 1824 Testimonies of Adam Hunter and Alexander Bergan against Archibald McKenzie and Alexander McKenzie regarding preventing the officer of the court from apprehending Daniel McKenzie. Also a bond of caution by John Hunter in regards to Daniel McKenzie
BP/4/5/157 28 January 1824 Acknowledgement by and bond of caution regarding Archibald McKenzie, farmer in Vennell of Prestwick who owned to 'a most flagrant breach of the peace'
BP/4/5/55 30 January 1824 Petition of Andrew Caldwell, Procurator Fiscal against Alexander McKenzie, weaver, Prestwick, accused of a 'most flagrant breach of the peace'
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BP/4/6/414 31 January - Account from the trustees of John Taylor and 30 July 1824 Sons for lordship of coal sold from the Prestwick pits
BP/4/5/148 11 January 1825 Bailie Court case against William McBeath and Matthew Stewart, weavers in Prestwick accused of assaulting and maltreating James Campbell, weaver in Prestwick
BP/4/5/144 22 January 1825 Letter from Mr Edgar, surgeon, claiming for attending to injuries sustained by John Campbell, weaver in Prestwick
BP/4/5/50 23 February 1825 Bailie Court case regarding a weaving dispute. Also a record of the Prestwick Ploughing Match
BP/4/5/145 25 February 1825 Receipt from Mr Edgar, surgeon for attending to John Campbell as per reference number BP/4/5/144
BP/4/5/52 30 May 1825 Petition of Andrew Caldwell, Procurator Fiscal to the Magistrates of the Burgh of Prestwick accusing nine Prestwick journeymen weavers for profamation of the Lord's day etc., with court findings
BP/4/5/58 30 May 1825 Deposition of two weavers in dispute with the manhood of one being questioned by the other and the challenge to fight a 'duell' on the shore. On reverse dated 30 May 1825, Hugh Mitchell, innkeeper, Prestwick offers to stand surety for James Hunter
BP/4/5/56 18 July 1825 Petition of James Shields for convening Thomas McLellan 'as an evidence'
BP/4/5/66 19 April 1826 Petition to the Magistrates of Prestwick by Messrs Stirling and Park for the sequestration of the effects of Malcolm McKechnie, weaver in Prestwick now in Ireland for the misappropriation of goods supplied by them and decision of the court
BP/4/5/142 18 May 1826 Letter to Bailie William Smith from T T Shiels regarding a complaint about behaviour of number of boys
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BP/4/3/91 22 May 1826 Printed letter from William Paton, Sheriff Substitute, Ayr to the Magistrates of Prestwick regarding subscription for the distressed manufacturers throughout Scotland and requiring particulars, within very limited parameters, of those requiring assistance in the shape of wages for work done
BP/4/3/48 6 June 1826 Letter from Will Eaton, Sheriff Substitute, Ayr, to the Magistrates of Prestwick and Mr Eddie, Schoolmaster of Monkton, enclosing £20 from the Committee at Edinburgh for the distressed manufacturers in Prestwick and Monkton
BP/4/3/45 7 June 1826 Copy of letter from William Smith, Prestwick, acknowledging receipt of ten pounds being conversion money and used for making the Bearlay Road from the Head of the Vennale here until it joins the road passing from Atkinbrae ridge to Ayr. It was also the means of employing a number of idle weavers. Request to the addressee, a trustee and Heritor of the parish for a considerable sum to finish the road
BP/4/3/43 22 July 1826 Receipt from Robert Wilson, Whitletts, for tools from the Burgh of Prestwick belonging to Oswald of Auchincruive
BP/4/5/177 24 July 1826 Bond of caution for John Aird, Prestwick concerning dispute between two weavers and involving family members
BP/4/4/11 22 November 1826 Report of case against Alexander Smith, John Caldwell and David Boyd for setting snares and stealing snares and stomps out of Monkton Mill Warren. Smith sentenced to be banished from the Burgh
BP/4/5/179 28 November 1826 Petition of John Hunter to the Sheriff concerning the recovery of two years rent from John Campbell, weaver in Prestwick who removed to Glasgow with all his furniture and effects. Warrant granted for sequestration and return of the household furniture and effects
BP/4/3/40 15 January 1827 Letter accompanying parcel of clothing for the distressed weavers of Prestwick, signed by John McMurtrie, secretary
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BP/4/5/152 15 January 1827 Case against James Guthrie for lifting sea wrack
BP/4/4/109 14 September 1827 Case of 5 women appearing before the Bailie for assaulting Neil Higgins and his family
BP/4/5/158 18 September 1827 Complaint regarding case against two wives who had some differences and whose husbands were unable to keep them in proper subjection
BP/4/3/210 5 March 1828 Minutes of case of several boys accused of assaulting several girls in a field on the sabbath, their disorderly conduct appears to have got out of hand
BP/4/5/54 6 March 1828 Letter from Thomas McLellan to Bailie William Smith, Prestwick giving views of the local administration of justice
BP/4/5/53 7 March 1828 Letter from Bailie William Smith to Charles McArthur, weaver, Prestwick giving views of the local administration of justice
BP/4/5/149 22 March 1828 Petition of Andrew Caldwell, Procurator Fiscal regarding breach of peace by William McBeath against John Wallace and his son Alexander
BP/4/5/154 2 July 1828 Court findings against two weavers from Prestwick Toll
BP/4/5/162 7 August 1828 Petition of Procurator Fiscal regarding case against David Cunningham for assaulting Grisele Bertram, wife of John Martine. Depositions taken including one from Frances Liddle, servant to Mr Findlay
BP/4/5/150 12 August 1828 Case against Margrate Walker wife of John McFarlane, printer in Glasgow for stealing nine pounds and various items of wearing apearell (sic) from the house of Alexander Guthrie, seaman in Newton
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BP/4/5/150A 13 August 1828 Statement of Frances Guthrie in case against Margrate Walker wife of John McFarlane, printer in Glasgow for stealing nine pounds and various items of wearing apearell (sic) from the house of Alexander Guthrie, seaman in Newton
BP/4/5/178 20 September 1828 Witnessed apology of Jean Watson, widow of James Hamilton, travelling merchant, residing at present in Newton for having said something disrespectful of Robert Newall's character
BP/4/5/57 22 November 1828 Petition of John Mathie to the Magistrates of Prestwick against Helen Woods, wife of Arthur Woods, Prestwick Toll accused of drawing no. 737 a piece of trimming on 26 March at 8d per yard. Also drew 867 on 9 September a trimming at 7d per yard. Has kept both pieces since the above dates and returned them unfinished on 21 November. Petition and requests that she be required to finish the work or compelled to by imprisonment. She agreed to finish the work in 6 weeks
BP/4/5/149A 1828 Bond of caution for William McBeath, Prestwick
BP/4/5/164 17 January 1829 Case of Margrate Grame, wife of James Campbell, travling (sic) merchant at present residing in Prestwick, in possession of a quantity of tea believed to have come dishonestly from William Deans of Irvine
BP/4/5/151 19 January 1829 Case of James Campbell accused of stealing tea from William Deans, tea dealer from Irvine. Campbell to be drummed out of the town and banished never to return
BP/4/3/64 6 March 1829 Printed copy of Act of Sederunt for preventing irregularities in the making of extracts of decrees and giving them forth prematurely to the parties. Addressed to the Clerk of the Burgh of Barony of Prestwick
BP/4/5/159 21 April 1829 Petition regarding case against Rebecca Crawford and James Knight charged with breach of peace
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BP/4/4/91 7 July 1829 Letter to the Magistrates and Freemen of the Burgh of Prestwick from the trustees for John Taylor and Sons, Ayr regarding termination of the coal lease
BP/4/4/94 24 July 1829 Propositions to be submitted to the Magistrates of Prestwick relative to Prestwick coal lease and its surrender
BP/4/4/96 1 September 1829 Letter to the Magistrates and Freemen of Prestwick from William Cowan and John Sloan, Ayr regarding termination of John Taylor and Sons coal lease
BP/4/4/81 25 November 1829 Letter to the Chancellor, Bailies, Treasurer and the other Freemen of the Burgh of Barony of Prestwick from James Frew, Prestwick Toll listing the amount of damage to his properties as a result of the activities of Taylor and Sons of Ayr Colliery and asking for redress
BP/4/4/100 31 March 1830 Letter from George Taylor, Ayr Colliery to Bailie Smith, Prestwick
BP/4/3/71 April 1830 Document recording the substance of a conversation the writer (unknown) had with George Taylor regarding coal lease
BP/4/4/101 1 July 1830 Letter from George Taylor, Ayr Colliery to Bailie Smith, Prestwick
BP/4/4/95 19 July 1830 Letter from George Taylor, Ayr Colliery, to Bailie Smith arranging to see him
BP/4/3/71A 22 July 1830 Letter from George Taylor, Ayr Colliery, to Bailie Smith enclosing a letter to the Magistrates and Freemen of Prestwick regarding coal lease. Intimating that coal in the southern part of property is exhausted but suggesting the possibility of coal in northern part at King's Case
BP/4/3/57 2 August 1830 Letter from Reverend Thomas Burns, Mains of Monkton, to Bailie Smith regarding the stipend and asking that his letter be communicated to the Freemen of Prestwick. N.B. Thomas Burns was a nephew of the poet Burns, and after the disruption went to New Zealand and became the founder of Otago University.
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BP/4/4/92 18 August 1830 Petition of James Frew, Prestwick Toll to the Magistrates and the rest of the Freemen of Prestwick concerning his damaged property
BP/4/3/76 30 October 1830 Letter from David Coulthard to the Magistrates of Prestwick regarding sale of property at Prestwick Toll
BP/4/3/104 2 November 1830 Letter from George Taylor to Bailie Smith regarding settlement of money due for payment
BP/4/3/212 5 November 1830 Minutes of case against James Manderson for assaulting his wife and upsetting the peace of the neighbourhood, found guilty, fined and ordered to leave this place (2 items)
BP/4/4/98 November 1830 Legal petition of James Frew to the Magistrates and Town Council of Prestwick concerning his damaged property
BP/4/4/98A November 1830 Statement of damages to the property at Prestwick Toll belonging to James Frew
BP/4/4/99 16 February 1831 Letter from George Taylor, Ayr Colliery to Bailie Smith, Prestwick regarding houses at Prestwick Toll
BP/4/3/66 8 March 1831 Letter from Mr Rankin, Ayr to Bailie Smith regarding the sale of Colonel Shaw's freedom. Copy of reply on the back page
BP/4/3/67 11 March 1831 Letter of response from Mr Rankin to Bailie Smith's letter of 8 March 1831 requesting the sight of a copy of the regulations governing the Freedom of the Burgh
BP/4/4/7 March 1831 Report and depositions of cases against Nathan Spence and Henry Hunter for stealing potatoes from Charles Bryan (2 items)
BP/4/3/59 16 April 1831 Letter to Bailie Smith from Rankine McClelland regarding Colonel Shaw's entry to the freedom
BP/4/3/68 16 April 1831 Letter from Rankin and McClelland, Ayr to Bailie Smith, Prestwick regarding Colonel James Shaw's freedom
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BP/4/3/25 1 June 1831 Copy of letter from George Taylor to the Magistrates of Prestwick regarding Bellrock Quarry
BP/4/4/79 1 June 1831 Covering letter to James McClelland, writer, Ayr for disposition and resignation contained within reference number BP/4/4/78
BP/4/4/97 17 June 1831 Letter to Bailie Smith, Prestwick from William [ ] regarding termination of John Taylor's coal tack
BP/4/3/32 June 1831 Letter from George Taylor, Ayr, to Magistrates, Community of Prestwick regarding feu duty on the Bellrock Salt Pans for period Martinmas 1824 - Martinmas 1830 and rent for the quarry for period Lammas 1826 - Lammas 1830
BP/4/5/147 19 July 1831 Bailie Court case against Robert Dunlop, son-in- law of Robert Shields for behaving in outrageous and disorderly manner in the said Robert Shields house
BP/4/5/147A 19 July 1831 Bailie Court case outcome against Robert Dunlop, son-in-law of Robert Shields for behaving in outrageous and disorderly manner in the said Robert Shields house
BP/4/4/78 29 August 1831 Disposition and resignation - Lieutenant Colonel James Shaw to the town of Prestwick
BP/4/5/146 12 October 1831 Report of case against men accused of stealing rabbits from the warren in Monkton
BP/4/5/184 12 October 1831 Copy of letter from William Smith, Prestwick on behalf of the inhabitants of Prestwick concerning the possibility of them signing the loyal address to His Most Gracious Majesty upon the unfortunate rejection of the reform bill in the House of Lords
BP/4/3/35 3 November 1831 Letter to the Magistrates of Prestwick from John Taylor Gordon, Ayr Colliery, results of test borings for coal at Orangefield
BP/4/3/60 21 November 1831 Letter from Pat [ ] Campbell, Mount Hamilton to Bailie Smith, regarding damage by coal working on Mr Oswald's Freedom in Prestwick
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BP/4/4/53 23 November 1831 Letter from John Taylor Gordon, Ayr Colliery to the Magistrates and Community of Prestwick. Claims his brother has settled the arrears of rent and feu duty, conditions of prospecting and making another bore and wish to relinquish the lease on the Bellrock Quarry which he can no longer work with advantage
BP/4/3/61 23 May 1832 Letter to Bailie Smith from Alan Gordon, colliery, regarding making a bore in the Prestwick lands. Copy of reply dated 30 May 1832 reporting that at a general meeting of the community it was decided that he should abide with the terms made with Mr Taylor
BP/4/5/181 8 June 1832 Letter from A Murdoch, Fiscal, County Buildings, Ayr to Bailie Smith, Prestwick concerning a complaint that George Miller in Prestwick had been threatened by James Nisbet, shoemaker in Prestwick in consequence of his refusing to play a fyfe for a crowd. According to signed statements of the various accused persons an effigy of George Miller had been made and burnt
BP/4/5/167 10 July 1832 Complaint regarding case against William McLean for assaulting Mariah Spence
BP/4/5/160 August 1832 Case of Henry Heron, Henry O'Hara, William Neil and Alex Martine, all weavers in Prestwick who being unable to find crab apples, broke into the orchard of Charles Smith, farmer in Bogside and stole apples and pears. They were fined five shillings each and if could not pay, jail for four weeks
BP/4/5/62 14 October 1832 Testimony of Jean Samson, daughter of a Kilmarnock carpet weaver regarding the theft of her clothes whilst she was in bed in her grandmother's house
BP/4/5/69 8 November 1832 Petition of Andrew Caldwell, Procurator Fiscal to the Magistrates of Prestwick regarding agreement of George Broadshaw to keep the peace
BP/4/5/47 20 November 1832 Findings of Bailie Court against four named men for disorderly behaviour and vandalism
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BP/4/5/67 28 November 1832 Agreement to keep the peace of the Burgh regarding a petition of Duncan McLellan against Alexander Campbell, agent, Prestwick
BP/4/5/175 28 November 1832 Bond of caution by James Nisbet in favour of his brother, Samuel
BP/4/3/58 21 December 1832 Letter from John [Green], Ayr Colliery to the Magistrates and Community of Prestwick regarding a mining survey
BP/4/4/118 4 January 1833 Detailed regulations regarding the Burgh freedoms
BP/4/4/118A 4 January 1833 Detailed regulations regarding the Burgh freedoms
BP/4/3/209 17 January 1833 Bond of caution of William Heron and William Smith for Henry Heron to keep the peace towards Andrew Patterson, his wife and their dependents
BP/4/5/182 2 March 1833 Case heard by Bailie Court concerning a dispute between two weavers and the wife of one of them
BP/4/3/65 15 March 1833 Letter from T William Campbell, Esquire of Fairfield regarding and enclosing a note about the salmon fishings
BP/4/5/183 26 March 1833 Case heard by Bailie Court concerning John Martin's dog destroying John Stewart's lamb
BP/4/3/201 30 March 1833 Bond and caution along with a signed deposition 6 April 1833 for a case of assault, abuse and stone throwing, blood being drawn during a fight on the road from Ayr to Prestwick Toll. Accused persons found guilty, fined, ordered to keep the peace and agree to have case registered in the Burgh Court books
BP/4/5/165 15 April 1833 Complaint regarding case of James Martine, fined for taking a silver watch as a joke, then jailed for 24 hours for contempt of court
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BP/4/5/161 6 June 1833 Petition of William Steven to have the premises of Hugh Dales, weaver searched for a stolen young swine. Permission given for a day time search and if the animal be found the case to be referred to the nearest Justice of the Peace
BP/4/4/52 15 August 1833 Copy of letter to Messrs Taylor and Gordon asking for settlement of coal and quarry rents and arrears of feu duty
BP/4/5/176 20 September 1833 Petition by Procurator Fiscal regarding a case before the Burgh Court of James Frew who was attacked by a sergeant of the 74th Regiment and three of his recruits
BP/4/4/51 1 November 1833 Copy of letter to John Taylor Gordon and George Taylor requiring attention to Mr Hutchison's letter
BP/4/4/49 13 November 1833 Letter from John Taylor Gordon, Ayr Colliery to Bailie Smith, Prestwick gives excuses for not attending to Mr Hutchison's letter
BP/4/4/70 10 December 1833 Copy of objections for William Smith and others against the action of multiple pounding raised in their home, concerns the freedoms including John Dick's the common debtor
BP/4/4/6 31 December 1833 Report of case against youths accused of throwing stones at girls attending Prestwick Toll Sabbath School
BP/4/4/75 1833 Copy of summons of multiple pounding raised in the name of the Bailies of Prestwick against John Dick and others
BP/4/5/166 1833 Letter of apology by James Martine to the court for his crime of contempt of court
BP/4/5/168 1833 Notes of evidence against Adam Andrew, appears to concern a paternity case
BP/4/4/3 14 January 1834 Petition presented by Robert Manson, Fiscal to the Burgh before a hearing of the Burgh Court concerning four drunken weavers causing a breach of the peace
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BP/4/4/4 14 January 1834 Findings of the court with the signed bonds of the accused men, being the four drunken weavers mentioned in the petition reference number BP/4/4/3
BP/4/4/73 23 January 1834 Letter from Stephen Rowan, Ayr to Bailie Smith enclosing a copy of the summons of multiple pounding regarding Mrs Dick's freedom
BP/4/4/71 28 January 1834 State of incomes and expenditures of John Dick's freedom, includes coal lordships
BP/4/4/1 4 February 1834 Acknowledgement of Samuel Porter, son of James Porter, weaver accused of throwing a piece of coal through a broken window and hitting a child on the head, case heard by Burgh Court
BP/4/4/48 13 February 1834 Copy of letter to John Taylor Gordon Esquire from William Smith regarding coal and quarry lease. Also copy of letter to George Taylor Esquire from William Smith regarding payment of feus due to Burgh
BP/4/4/50 13 February 1834 Letter from Joseph Boyd, Ayr Colliery to Bailie Smith intimating that Mr Gordon will attend the meeting regarding the lease
BP/4/4/45 24 April 1834 Copy of letter to Mr George Taylor regarding arrears in payment of feu duty
BP/4/4/68 9 May 1834 Letter from George Taylor, Clackmannan to Bailie Smith, will be in Ayr in a week or two
BP/4/4/69 1 July 1834 Discharge by Stewart Ewing to John Dick
BP/4/4/23 4 July 1834 Specification of work to be executed in Monkton Parish Church
BP/4/4/82 28 July 1834 Letter from David Bryce, 8 Great Stuart Street to the Reverend Thomas Burns regarding architectural arguments against seeking a reduction in the estimates for the church
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BP/4/3/70 13 October 1834 Letter from George Taylor to the Magistrates and Community of the Burgh of Prestwick requesting a reduction in his feu duty. Record on the back page of a meeting which considered the matter including the voting tally
BP/4/4/8 29 December 1834 Petition presented by Robert Manson, Fiscal for the Burgh against Felix Murray and George Kelly alias Bradshaw, both weavers, for breach of the peace
BP/4/4/46 1834 Memorandum respecting the renunciation of the quarry lease
BP/4/4/5 January 1835 Petition against men accused of breaking windows, taking away a cart and other outrages on the night of 12/13 January 1835 with depositions of the accused
BP/4/6/549 12 January 1835 Burgh Court records for case concerning disturbances which have taken place
BP/4/4/93 13 January 1835 Petition and complaint against David Boyd, James Smith, Thomas Heron, Alexander Hay, George Good and James Hunter by Robert Manson, Procurator Fiscal to the Burgh regarding disorderly conduct
BP/4/6/552 13 January 1835 Burgh Court records regarding five people charged, admitted liable and sentenced
BP/4/4/10 14 January 1835 Complaint of Mrs Catherine Linn for admission to her house, plus list of contents of a weavers home (2 items)
BP/4/4/9 2 February 1835 Report of case against William McLyment, weaver from Newmills for being the worse of drink and disturbing the peace
BP/4/6/551 11 May 1835 Letter from J Martin addressed on the reverse to Robert Maccartney, Prestwick as follow up to proceedings of the Burgh Court
BP/4/4/83 13 May 1835 Sentence and bond of caution of James Mortine and Robert McCartney, regarding disorderly conduct
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BP/4/4/117 18 May 1835 Complaint regarding weavers children who annoyed the ducks of William Robieson, farmer, Kirk Street on the Sabbath and killed one of them, boys found guilty and fined
BP/4/3/97 23 November 1835 Record of complaint against David Boyd, Bentfield presented to the Magistrates of Prestwick and concerning his activities on a sabbath morning to the great annoyance of his neighbours. Pled guilty, was fined and promised not to repeat offence. Note on reverse gives regulation for carrying away wrack and sea ware
BP/4/4/119 1835/1836 Record of two cases heard by the Bailie Court. The first in which several named persons had attacked Bailie Smith's house and the second against Jean McGinnies for stealing cloth
BP/4/4/115 16 January 1836 Petition of Robert Manson, Procurator Fiscal against David Boyd, Bentfield for lifting wrack before sunrise - fined
BP/4/4/116 18 January 1836 Petition of Robert Manson, Procurator Fiscal against Robert Latta for lifting wrack before sunrise and for using two horses in place of one - fined
BP/4/4/113 25 January and Copy of two letters to Andrew Macgeorge Esquire, 2 February 1836 writer in Glasgow, respecting Mr Curries right to lift wrack for Bentfield. Refers to 15th century records and regulations existing from that time
BP/4/4/114 26 January and Copy of two letters to Andrew Macgeorge Esquire, 2 February 1836 writer in Glasgow, respecting Mr Curries right to lift wrack for Bentfield. Refers to 15th century records and regulations existing from that time
BP/4/3/69 29 January 1836 A lawyers letter from Andrew Macgeorge, Glasgow to Bailie Smith regarding the lifting of wrack or sea ware. Provides account of a fifty year history of this right and raises question of conflict between the obligations required of the Freemen of Prestwick and feudal title
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BP/4/3/28 27 February 1836 Copy of letter, John Taylor Gordon and Bailie Smith regarding an unsettled claim on him by the Prestwick community
BP/4/3/33 27 February 1836 Letter from John Taylor Gordon, Ayr Colliery to Bailie Smith regarding settlement of claim made by Prestwick community
BP/4/3/22 16 March 1836 Mutual agreement betwixt John Adams and William McWilliam regarding weaving apprenticeships
BP/4/1/20 5 May 1836 Schedule of valuation of creditors and protest on behalf of John Gibson, surgeon in Ayr, concerning his right to inherit a Freemanship of the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/4/65 27 May 1836 Petition regarding dispute between Richard Benn, travelling equestrian and Elizabeth Guthrie, daughter of deceased Alexander Guthrie, court agreed with consent of both parties to quash proceedings
BP/4/3/215 25 June 1836 Record of case against Robert Boyd son of David Boyd, Bentfield for poaching rabbits from the warren at Monkton Miln, also the bond of James Ward, labourer in Monkton and cautioner for Robert Boyd (2 items)
BP/4/4/64 18 July 1836 Petition of Hugh Robertson to the Magistrates of the Burgh of Prestwick accusing John Gray, weaver, of breach of the peace. John Gray pled guilty and agreed to behave himself. Also case brought by John McMunn and Marion Wilson, his wife against Bernard Dearie and Margrate, his wife for abusing the formers child and sending out her children who were older to knock theirs down, ordered to pay fine, keep the peace, pay expenses of the constable convening them
BP/4/3/36 7 December 1836 Agreement signed by Robert Campbell, Wallacetown, for the working and sale of coal, wade, ironstone, stones or any other minerals out of the lands of Prestwick. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/3/37 7 December 1836 Letter to Bailie Smith from Robert Campbell, Wallacetown, covering his offer to lease Prestwick coal.
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BP/4/5/73 1836 Account of the parish
BP/4/3/29 17 January 1837 Copy of letter of agreement between John Taylor Gordon Esquire and the Freemen of Prestwick, renouncing earlier lease and also concerning obligation of filling up the Bellrock
BP/4/3/213 January 1837 Complaint against James Knight and bond thereon, refers to a game (2 items)
BP/4/3/30 15 March 1837 and Copy of letter from Robert Campbell, factor, to Mr 22 March 1837 Oswald and a letter enclosing the copy letter to Mr Taylor's trustees. Concerns a claim for permanent damage to one of the lots held by Mr Oswald, Freeman in Prestwick, now that the coal operations of John Taylor and Sons has now ended.
BP/4/4/110 19 May 1837 Account for work done by unemployed weavers
BP/4/2/170 2 June 1837 Letter to Hugh Millar Esquire from William Smith, Eldest Bailie, provides history of constitution
BP/4/4/80 20 June 1837 Receipt from James Dunlop and Sons, Glasgow for purchase of webs
BP/4/4/121 23 June 1837 Receipt from James Dunlop and Sons, Glasgow
BP/4/6/133 30 June 1837 Receipt from James Dunlop and Sons, Glasgow for 2 [ ] of No. 64
BP/4/4/67 2 July 1837 Case before Bailie William Smith of two men caught at Monktonmill warren in act of shooting rabbits, they admitted to having killed five rabbits. Reverse appears to be details from two different firms for the valuation of a shop, house and piece of garden
BP/4/3/54 3 July 1837 Witnessed legal document requiring the Heritors to make extra payments to the builders of the new Monkton Church
BP/4/3/216 14 July 1837 Receipt from John Patrick, Glasgow
BP/4/4/59 21 July 1837 Account of John Patrick, Glasgow sent to Councillor Peter Smith
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BP/4/3/157 25 July 1837 Receipt from John Patrick, Glasgow
BP/4/4/61 8 August 1837 Account of John Patrick, Glasgow sent to Councillor Peter Smith
BP/4/4/60 11 August 1837 Account of John Patrick, Glasgow sent to Councillor Peter Smith
BP/4/4/111 1837 Cash expended in employing the idle weavers at riddling gravel
BP/4/6/390 1837 Receipt from Alex McCall for [boxes and bags]
BP/4/6/391 1837 Receipt from John Patrick, Glasgow for [box of yarn]
BP/4/3/142 April 1838 Minute of case heard in the Burgh Court with depositions. Persons accused of stealing cabbages and green kail plants from John Smith's, Freeman, field and selling them on in Ayr
BP/4/4/54 1839 Complaint and depositions against William Eddington for sexual harassment and striking Mair Patterson, causing her face to bleed on the Sabbath of 23 September 1839. Fined and ordered to keep the peace by the Burgh Court
BP/4/4/55 1839 Complaint and bond against Alex McKie and William Wilson acting in an outrageous and disorderly manner on the evening of Thursday 26 September 1839. Fined and ordered to keep the peace
BP/4/6/570 25 March 1839 Draft of unsigned letter regarding the renting of a house by William Reid
BP/4/4/56 15 June 1839 Dispute between John Adams, grocer in Prestwick, his wife and daughter Elizabeth, spouse of Robert Cleg, and Alexander Nisbit and his wife, all fined and ordered to keep the peace
BP/4/4/57 8 October 1839 Bond of caution for Rebecca Weldon and Margaret McLellan
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BP/4/4/15 23 June 1840 Petition to the Right Honorable Earl of Litchfield PMG from the Magistrates and Town Council of the Burgh of Prestwick. Gives local population of upwards of eleven hundred, expresses desire for the Burgh to have its own post office
BP/4/3/63 26 June 1840 Letter headed London and signed by W Smith, Esquire, Chief Magistrate of Prestwick regarding a petition to the Post Master General
BP/4/6/236 1 July 1840 Letter headed 'London' to the Chief Magistrate of Prestwick in reply to an application for a post office
BP/4/6/575 3 July 1840 Record of Bailie Court regarding assault case
BP/4/3/75 6 July 1840 Letter from surveyor to William Smith intimating refusal of the Post Master General to establish a post office in Prestwick, but could be recommended if funded by the parties interested
BP/4/4/13 13 July 1840 Letter from William Smith regarding trying to obtain a paid postmaster for Prestwick
BP/4/6/574 26 July 1840 Record of Bailie Court regarding stolen cabbages
BP/4/6/571 27 July 1840 Caution and proceedings against James Neil, weaver in Prestwick whose daughter Mary Neil took four cabbages from the garden of Robert Hunter, mason in Prestwick
BP/4/6/576 27 July 1840 Record of Bailie Court regarding trespass amongst cabbages
BP/4/6/386 18 August 1840 Letter to the Magistrates of Prestwick from C F Reeves, surveyor regarding the cost of having a private mail bag for the village of Prestwick
BP/4/6/572 31 August 1840 Record of Bailie Court case of Matthew Reid for aggressive conduct
BP/4/6/573 9 September 1840 Petition of John Hunter, Procurator Fiscal regarding breach of the peace by David Boyd and Bailie Court records for the case
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BP/4/4/12 28 September 1840 Copy of letter from William Smith regarding trying to obtain a paid postmaster for Prestwick
BP/4/3/74 30 September Letter to William Smith regarding £2.20 per annum 1840 charge for the making up of a private post bag for the accommodation of a village. Pencil list of names with sums of money added on reverse
BP/4/6/577 1840 Petition to obtain a mail bag being left in Prestwick - 69 signatures
BP/4/4/62 24 January 1842 Letter from William Campbell, 32 Rutland Square, Edinburgh to Bailie Smith, Prestwick giving legal advice and pointing out potential problems regarding the proposed plan for the feu charters
BP/4/6/384 6 October 1843 Letter addressed "Dear Bailie" from W Neill, [Swindripman] regarding a post office for Prestwick and annexed copy of letter dated 30 September received from C F Reeves
BP/4/6/385 October 1843 Reply to W Neill regarding a post office for Prestwick as per reference number BP/4/6/384
BP/4/3/123 12 September 1844 Letter to Bailie Smith from Pollock, Gilfillan and Company, Ayr regarding Miss Shields wish for an adjustment of the freedom and the purchase of an annuity under Mr Shields trust settlement
BP/4/3/53 11 August 1846 Copy of letter from William Hutchison, Town Clerk of the Burgh of Prestwick to John M Lindsay Esquire, Crown Agent, Chambers, Edinburgh, intimating that the Magistrates of the Burgh of Prestwick have not adopted the act to establish a general system of police
BP/4/6/119 [1 March 1847] Note from William Macintosh to Bailie Manson enclosing references which may be of use to him
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BP/4/3/224 10 and 15 April Letter to Bailie Smith from Secretary's Department 1847 of Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Company. Relates to the agreement of a railway line through Prestwick. Also a certified copy of the minutes establishing the railway station at Prestwick. Indicates type and frequency of trains and that Bailie Smith would oppose a direct line between Ayr and Kilmarnock
BP/4/6/387 12 September 1853 Letter from J Hunter Blair, Blairquhan to Bailie Smith, Prestwick regarding post office
BP/4/3/55 29 October 1853 Letter from J Hunter Blair, Member of Parliament, Blairquhan to Bailie Smith, Prestwick regarding the establishment of a post office in Prestwick and forwarding a letter from [ ] Abbott, General Post Office, Edinburgh, dated 24 October 1853 regarding a survey for Prestwick Post Office
BP/4/4/25 7 January 1854 Copy of letter from General Post Office, Edinburgh to Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Blair Member of Parliament, Blairquhan, Maybole. Authority given for the establishment of a post six days a week from Ayr to Prestwick
BP/4/4/26 11 January 1854 Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Blair to William Smith enclosing copy of letter from General Post Office (as per reference number BP/4/4/25) with a copy of William Smith's reply thereto on reverse
BP/4/3/62 19 January 1854 Copy of a letter from James Campbell, Esquire of Craigie, Craigie House, Ayr to Bailie Smith recommending Mrs Hunter, widow of the late John Hunter for the situation of post mistress at Prestwick
BP/4/6/334 20 August 1857 Receipt signed by John Neill for instruments belonging to a former musical band and provided to them by subscriptions of the inhabitants
BP/4/3/94 1862 - 1863 Receipt for payment of annual account by the Magistrates of Prestwick to C B Rowan. Includes item for a meeting on 15 September 1862 to remove the schoolmaster and calling a meeting of the Heritors
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BP/4/5/4 19 and 24 February Receipt and discharge by the Misses Smith and 1862 Mr and Mrs Reid of loan of £150 by their father to Mungo Guthrie
BP/4/4/63 5 May and 27 Receipt from the Ayrshire Express Company November 1862 (Limited)
BP/4/5/95 October 1862 Receipt from James Ferguson and Company, slater, glazier and plumbers, River Street, Wallacetown, Ayr for attending to schoolroom gas pipes
BP/4/6/412 1 November 1862 Receipt from William Willock for decorating work on school
BP/4/4/181 11 November 1862 - Receipt from James M Cowan for school salary for 11 November 1863 period 11 November 1862 - 11 November 1863
BP/4/4/176 26 November 1862 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for drink
BP/4/3/96 27 November 1862 Receipt for purchase of lock for school door
BP/4/3/122 6 December 1862 Receipt from Miss Walker for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/109 8 December 1862 Receipt from John Watt, Prestwick for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/107 9 December 1862 Receipt from Robert Latta, Prestwick for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/108 9 December 1862 Receipt from John Guthrie, Prestwick for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/110 9 December 1862 Receipt from James Hunter, Prestwick for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/114 9 December 1862 Receipt from William McLellan, Clerk for David Campbell and William Hamilton in respect of feu duty due to Mr Lindsay
BP/4/3/106 11 December 1862 Receipt from Jeanie Smith, Prestwick for one year of George Taylor's feu duty
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BP/4/3/112 11 December 1862 Receipt from Agnes Smith, Prestwick for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/113 11 December 1862 Receipt from Elizabeth Reid, Prestwick for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/119 16 December 1862 Receipt from George Morton for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/111 23 December 1862 Receipt from Joseph Erskine, Ayr for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick. Refers to portion of the annual sum received from the late George Taylor's heirs and which is always divided among the Freemen of the Burgh
BP/4/3/115 23 December 1862 Receipt from William Hunter for James Hunter for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/105 23 December 1862 Receipt from Joseph Erskine junior for Fergus Sloane for feu duty payment received from Mr John Gray, blacksmith and treasurer for the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/103 1862 Receipt for county rates for Ayrshire
BP/4/4/122 1862 - 1863 Receipt for property and income tax for the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/116 30 January 1863 Receipt from Charlie Boyd for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/4/177 1 February 1863 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/3/117 5 February 1863 Receipt from Charles G Shaw, County Buildings, Ayr for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/118 12 February 1863 Receipt from Reverend Doctor and Mrs [ ], Kirkhill for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/4/175 18 February 1863 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for drink
BP4/6/333A 18 February 1863 Receipt from William Davidson for payment of feu duty
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BP/4/3/95 March 1863 Receipt for payment of stipend crop money for 1862, signed by George James Laurie
BP/4/4/123 26 March 1863 Receipt for Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/5/34 27 April [1863] Receipt for 5 journal of bores on the lands of Prestwick
BP/4/6/392 April 1863 Receipt from Hugh Brown - contract for forming road from the Ayr and Kilmarnock road to Mr Arthur's march
BP/4/4/178 1 May 1863 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/4/174 27 May 1863 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for drink
BP/4/6/344 30 May 1863 Receipt from James Stewart, teacher at the Burgh School of Prestwick for payment of salary. The £20 being 2/5 of Mr Cowan's £50 salary
BP/4/3/121 2 June 1863 Receipt from W H and J Pollock, per [ ], 45 Newmarket Street, Ayr for money due to John Ross junior, Esquire
BP/4/3/154 4 July 1863 Receipt for forming road at south end of village
BP/4/4/179 1 August 1863 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/4/173 17 August 1863 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for drink and lunches
BP/4/3/225 22 August 1863 Receipt from David Boyd for painting and repairing the school windows
BP/4/6/92 28 August 1863 Receipt from John Semple, ironmongers, Ayr
BP/4/3/120 14 September 1863 Receipt from [ ] Campbell, Craigie for feu duty payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/4/172 September 1863 Receipt from William Ure, Ayr Foundry for 4 inch pipes
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BP/4/5/89 31 October 1863 Receipt for proportion of salary due to the teacher of the Prestwick Burgh School
BP/4/4/180 1 November 1863 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/6/118 4 November 1863 Receipt for payment of heritors assessment
BP/4/6/592 6 November 1863 Account of Mr Charles Boyd
BP/4/3/143 10 November 1863 Receipt from Charles Boyd
BP/4/4/171 21 November 1863 Receipt from James Anderson junior, agent for Reverend Doctor McLuhae of St Quivox for feu duty from John Gray
BP/4/3/223 23 November 1863 Receipt from John Gray, joiner, includes fitting a lock to the school door
BP/4/4/19 24 November 1863 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for drink and lunch
BP/4/3/185 1 December 1863 Receipt for payment made to Thomas Manson from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/4/204 1 December 1863 Letter from Education Department Privy Council Office, Downing Street, London. Lords require to know the scale of fees to be charged to the various classes of children in the school and what proportion of them are expected to learn geometry, book-keeping, Latin and Greek
BP/4/3/181 18 December 1863 Receipt for payment made to John McMorland from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/3/189 18 December 1863 Receipt for payment made to Fergus Sloan from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/3/190 18 December 1863 Receipt for payment made to Joseph Erskine from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
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BP/4/3/182 22 December 1863 Receipt for payment made to Charles Boyd from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/3/186 22 December 1863 Receipt for payment made to John Ross junior from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/3/187 22 December 1863 Receipt for payment made to Mr Lindsay from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/3/226 Receipts for advertising for a teacher for the Burgh School from:-
BP/4/3/226/1 1863 Ayrshire Express Office, 55 and 57 Newmarket Street, Ayr
BP/4/3/226/2 1863 Ayr Observer and Galloway Chronicle
BP/4/3/226/3 1863 The Ayr Advertiser and Galloway Journal
BP/4/5/78 1863 Receipt for payment of proportion of stipend to Reverend Doctor Laurie for crop year
BP/4/6/132 1863 Receipt for payment of land cess or stent 1862 - 1863
BP/4/5/84 1863 - 1864 Land cess or stent to the community of Prestwick
BP/4/3/184 7 January 1864 Receipt for payment made to William Davidson from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
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BP/4/5/43 9 January 1864 and Envelope addressed to Robert Manson Esquire, 25 November 1865 Prestwick containing (a) Printed letter dated 25 November 1865 signed by William Jack, Her Majesty's Inspector intimating his intention to inspect Prestwick Burgh School on Wednesday 6 December at 11.15 o'clock. Handwritten notes in the margin. Pages 2 and 3 give detailed conditions for awarding scholars' certificates. (b) Annual Grants (1861) Form Number XII dated 9 January 1864 giving notice that the Inspector's annual visit may be looked for in the month of August and stating when the grants will be paid. (c) Printed notice regarding the availability of the Revised Code of the Minutes and Regulations of the Committee of Council on Education and the instructions to Her Majesty's Inspector thereon
BP/4/4/20 21 January 1864 Receipt from Hugh McKay for forming road along the ends of the strip lots, Prestwick
BP/4/7/31 13 February 1864 Receipt from David Boyd for joinery work
BP/4/5/82 17 February 1864 Account from the Red Lion Inn, Prestwick for drink and lunches
BP/4/3/199 23 March 1864 Receipt for Monkton stipend crop 1863 - Reverend Doctor Laurie
BP/4/3/140 25 March 1864 Demand for Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/5/86 31 March 1864 Receipt for payment of salary to the Burgh Officer
BP/4/4/18 5 April 1864 Receipt for property and income tax
BP/4/5/39 2 May 1864 Printed letter from William Jack, Her Majesty's Inspector, Ayr. Gives a 5 year syllabus for the examination of pupil teachers in religious knowledge in his district, also gives requirements for the inspection of the sewing and knitting undertaken by girl pupils
BP/4/5/45 7 May 1864 Printed form notifying a change for the annual inspection of Prestwick Burgh School to be held in December rather than August
BP/4/5/96 21 May 1864 Receipt from Hugh Mckay for repairing road at Bentfield
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BP/4/6/341 31 May 1864 Receipt from James Ferguson and Company, slaters, glaziers and plumbers, River Street, Ayr for work undertaken
BP/4/6/333 1 June 1864 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for lunch and drink
BP/4/5/42 11 June 1864 Printed copy of minute by the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education regarding payment of grants to elementary schools and the inspection of schools
BP/4/4/199 16 June 1864 Receipt from Andrew Bryson for a coffin for the late Robert Cunningham
BP/4/6/403 1 July 1864 - Receipted account of McCallum and Company, 7 March 1865 Ayr
BP/4/6/406 31 July 1864 Receipt from George Espie for payment of proportion of his account as Common Agent in the locality of Monkton
BP/4/4/143 17 August 1864 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for drink and lunch
BP/4/3/191 31 August 1864 Receipt for repair of dyke along the side of the road at Bentfield
BP/4/4/22 9 September 1864 Account from Campbell Espie and Bell for the proportion of common agents account payable by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/379 16 September 1864 Receipt from R J Campbell, Craigie for payment of dividends due
BP/4/3/218 24 September 1864 Receipt from Charles Bryan, joiner for repairing forms and desk in the Burgh School
BP/4/3/145 15 October 1864 Receipt from Charles Bryan, joiner for work undertaken
BP/4/3/153 15 October 1864 Receipt from Andrew McMorland for payment of portion of Freeman's double feu duty
BP/4/3/153A 15 October 1864 Receipt from Fergus Sloane for payment of portion of Freeman's double feu duty
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BP/4/3/183 15 October 1864 Receipt for payment made to Joseph Erskine from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/3/188 15 October 1864 Receipt for payment made to John McMorland from the annual divide from the heirs of the late George Taylor
BP/4/6/594 31 October 1864 Receipt from John Kerr, tailor and clothier, Kilmarnock for a suit of clothes for James Gibson, town bellman
BP/4/6/595 2 November 1864 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for dinner and drink
BP/4/6/410 8 November 1864 Receipt from J Davidson, civil engineer, for repairing plan with cloth on back and laying on scale on plan
BP/4/5/85 21 November 1864 Account of John Gray, smith, Prestwick
BP/4/4/21 22 November 1864 Receipt from James Gibson for half year's salary
BP/4/5/88 22 November 1864 Receipt for donation from the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/593 23 November 1864 - Receipted annual account from C B Rowan, writer, 16 August 1865 Ayr
BP/4/6/596 23 November 1864 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for lunches and drink
BP/4/5/46 26 November 1864 Printed intimation of school inspection and printed copy of the supplementary rules of the examination schedule
BP/4/5/87 9 December 1864 Receipt from William McIntosh for payment of the balance of donation due to him
BP/4/6/340 13 December 1864 Receipt for payment of annual divide to James Mackinnon
BP/4/6/338 19 December 1864 Receipt for payment of two divides and feu duty to Janet Caldwell
BP/4/6/339 21 December 1864 Receipt for payment of annual divide to Messrs John and Andrew McMorland, Fergus Sloane and Joseph Erskine
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BP/4/5/36 29 December 1864 Report of Her Majesty's Inspectorate on Prestwick Burgh School
BP/4/3/156 1864 Receipt from Red Lion Inn
BP/4/6/70 1864 Receipt for county rates for year 1868 - 1864 from John Gray
BP/4/6/405 1864 Receipt from Reverend Doctor Laurie for stipend for crop year 1864
BP/4/5/81 16 January 1865 Receipt for payment to W Lindsay, Freeman of the Burgh for his share of the two divides
BP/4/6/395 14 February 1865 Offer and receipt from David Meikle, joiner, Ayr for work on Prestwick Town Council House
BP/4/6/597 15 February 1865 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for lunches and drink
BP/4/6/402 March 1865 Receipted account from James Andrew and Brothers, masons, Monkton for work on bridge known as 'New Bridge' and repairs to Council House
BP/4/6/401 1 April 1865 Receipt for payment of poor rates
BP/4/6/598 31 May 1865 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for lunches and drink
BP/4/6/398 1 June 1865 Receipt from John Semple, ironmonger, High Street, Ayr
BP/4/6/400 6 June 1865 Receipt from James Ferguson, Ayr for supplying and putting in panes of glass in the school house
BP/4/6/399 13 June 1865 Receipt from William Underwood, Newmarket Street, Ayr for repairing maps and blackboard
BP/4/6/355 June 1865 - January Record of payments totaling £12 to be paid in full 1873 by Rodie to [ ] of Prestwick
BP/4/6/599 15 August 1865 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for lunches and drink
BP/4/3/78 19 August 1865 Receipt for lunch and drink from the Red Lion Hotel, settled by the Burgh of Prestwick
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BP/4/6/396 29 August 1865 Receipt and detailed account from James Andrew and Brother, masons, Monkton for building privies for the school
BP/4/6/397 12 September 1865 Receipted account from J and D Meikle, joiners, Old Bridge End, Wallacetown for work done regarding privies
BP/4/6/393 3 November 1865 Receipt from James M Cowan for schoolmaster's salary and voluntary contribution to Prestwick school due by the Freemen of Prestwick
BP/4/6/394 22 November 1865 Receipt from William McIntosh for donation given by the Magistrates and Freemen to the school master
BP/4/6/407 22 November 1865 Receipt for a new gate and padlock
BP/4/6/411 25 November 1865 Receipt from James Gibson for payment of salary as Burgh Officer
BP/4/6/149 29 November 1865 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/40 14 December 1865 Printed annual grants form number 28 from the Education Department, Privy Council Office, Downing Street, London requesting that the form be filled out
BP/4/6/187 14 December 1865 Receipt from James M Cowan for proportion of Heritors assessment due by Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/404 1865 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for year ending Whitsunday 1865
BP/4/6/408 1865 Receipt for payment of land cess or stent for period 1864 - 1865
BP/4/6/409 1865 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1864 - 1865
BP/4/6/190 1865 - 1867 Account in reference to entries in the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/5/35 15 January 1866 Report of Her Majesty's Inspectorate on Prestwick Burgh School
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BP/4/6/150 14 February 1866 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/44 March 1866 Printed regulations issued by the science and art department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington regarding aid to schools for the poor
BP/4/6/148 5 March 1866 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/152 21 May 1866 Receipt from David Smith, slater and glazier for roof work
BP/4/6/147 30 May 1866 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/3/93 30 June 1866 Letter from James Eaglesham, Kilmarnock to C B Rowan Esquire, solicitor, Ayr, regarding coal bores in Prestwick, Kilmarnock and New Cumnock
BP/4/6/146 15 August 1866 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/155 31 October 1866 Receipt from Smith and Grant, printers for printing work
BP/4/6/144 5 November 1866 Receipt from John Kerr, clothier for suit for James Gibson
BP/4/6/151 6 November 1866 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for dinner and drink
BP/4/6/138 21 November 1866 Receipt from William McIntosh for donation to the schoolmaster's salary
BP/4/6/153 22 November 1866 Receipt from James Ferguson and Company, slater, glazier and plumbers for assorted work
BP/4/6/586 23 November 1866 Receipt from James Hunter for feu duty
BP/4/6/154 26 November 1866 Receipt from James Andrew, mason for work at Kirkyard
BP/4/6/145 27 November 1866 Receipt from J and D Meikle, joiners for new trap ladder and other work
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BP/4/6/188 28 November 1866 Receipted account by C B Rowan to the Burgh of Prestwick for legal work - November 1865 - November 1866
BP/4/3/73 29 November 1866 Letter from J [Walban], 168 George Street, Glasgow to Bailie [ ], Prestwick regarding contribution to Prestwick school salary
BP/4/6/200 30 November 1866 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel, for bread, cheese and drink, etc.
BP/4/5/41 November 1866 Printed notice of supplementary rules for the examination schedule. On reverse is a pencil written table of attendances for each class and subject and is signed by William Jack
BP/4/6/206 4 December 1866 Receipt for payment of dividend due to Mr Lindsay
BP/4/5/37 8 December 1866 Report of Her Majesty's Inspectorate on Prestwick Burgh School. Gives attendance figure and examination results for reading, writing and arithmetic. Mentions 28 girls who learn to sew and knit
BP/4/6/137 1866 Receipt from James McCown, parish schoolmaster for proportion of voluntary contribution to Prestwick Burgh School for period 11 November 1865 - 11 November 1866
BP/4/6/139 1866 Receipt from James M Cowan, parish schoolmaster for salary for period 11 November 1865 - 11 November 1866
BP/4/6/140 1866 Receipt for payment of Monkton Parish land cess or stent for period 1865 - 1866
BP/4/6/141 1866 Receipt for payment of Monkton Parish property and income tax for period 1865 - 1866
BP/4/6/142 1866 Receipt for payment of Monkton Parish assessment of county rates for year ending Whitsun 1866
BP/4/6/197 1866-1867 Account to the Burgh of Prestwick from C B Rowan, solicitor, Ayr
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BP/4/6/208 24 January 1867 Receipt for payment of proportion of funds due to William Mutter for 1866
BP/4/3/80 19 February 1867 Receipt for lunch and drink from the Red Lion Hotel, settled by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/203 15 March 1867 Receipt from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for work done and materials supplied
BP/4/6/351 18 March 1867 Receipt from Reverend Doctor Laurie for payment of stipend for crop year 1866
BP/4/6/204 25 March 1867 Receipt for payment of poor rates
BP/4/3/92 4 May 1867 Letter from Thomas Anderson, Rankinstone to Mr Robert Manson with estimate for making bore holes
BP/4/6/191 21 May 1867 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel, for lunches and drink
BP/4/6/383 18 June 1867 Receipt from A McCubbin for feu duty due to the trustees of the late Alexander McCubbin
BP/4/6/198 14 August 1867 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel, for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/195 10 September 1867 Receipt for payment of division of funds to Mr John Ross, junior
BP/4/3/77 11 November 1867 - Receipt for the schoolmaster's salary signed by 11 November 1868 James M Cowan
BP/4/6/199 16 November 1867 Receipt from William Johnston, painter for work done
BP/4/3/81 23 November 1867 Receipt for 5/- feu duty due to and paid to James Hunter
BP/4/3/200 27 November 1867 - Receipted account of payment of work undertaken 3 November 1868 by C B Rowan, Town Clerk
BP/4/6/205 3 December 1867 Receipt from Joseph Erskine for payment due from Mr Mutter's feu duty of Kingcase land
BP/4/6/207 9 December 1867 Receipt for payment of dividend due to Mr Lindsay
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BP/4/3/151 21 December 1867 Receipt from Glasgow and South Western Railway Company for transport of pipes
BP/4/5/141 1867 Receipt from James M Cowan, schoolmaster for payment of salary 11 November 1866 - 11 November 1867
BP/4/6/143 1867 Receipt for Monkton and Prestwick poor rates relief assessment for period 1 February 1866 - 1 February 1867
BP/4/6/192 1867 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1866 - 1867
BP/4/6/193 1867 Receipt for payment of land cess or stent for period 1866 - 1867
BP/4/6/202 1867 Receipt for payment of county rates
BP/4/3/101 1867 - 1868 Receipt for land cess or stent
BP/4/3/141 1867 - 1868 Demand for property and income tax for the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/150 1867 - 1868 Receipt for tiles for road
BP/4/3/149 25 January 1868 Receipt from Robert Guthrie for forming road along the foot of the [path lots] to Kingcase Bridge
BP/4/3/85 9 March 1868 Receipt for payment of school salary
BP/4/3/89 14 March 1868 Receipt for stipend crop money, signed by George James Laurie
BP/4/3/83 4 April 1868 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/3/82 27 May 1868 Receipt for lunch and drink from the Red Lion Hotel, settled by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/129 2 June 1868 Receipt for payment due to Mr John Ross, junior, Glasgow
BP/4/3/87 5 June 1868 Receipt for payment of school salary
BP/4/5/79 27 August 1868 Account for cleaning the burns and ditches
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BP/4/3/86 21 September 1868 Receipt for payment of school salary
BP/4/6/589 29 October 1868 Receipt from Grant and McIlwraith for printing
BP/4/3/152 3 November 1868 Receipt from Red Lion Hotel
BP/4/3/148 23 November 1868 Receipt for officer's salary
BP/4/4/200 24 November 1868 Receipt from Alexander McMurtrie for repairing desks in the Burgh school
BP/4/3/84 25 November 1868 Receipt for payment of school salary
BP/4/6/588 25 November 1868 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/591 25 November 1868 - Receipted account from C B Rowan, solicitors, Ayr 18 August 1869
BP/4/6/194 26 November 1868 Receipt from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for work done and materials supplied
BP/4/5/134 2 December 1868 Receipt for payment of schoolmaster's salary
BP/4/3/90 8 December 1868 Receipt for suit of blue cloth for Ian Gibson, officer, Prestwick, from John Kerr, tailor, Kilmarnock
BP/4/6/128 21 December 1868 Receipt for payment from the common good due to T S Lindsay, Esquire of Hollymount
BP/4/5/90 1868 County rates for Ayrshire for year ending Whitsunday 1868
BP/4/6/585 1868 Receipt from a trustee of the late Mr James Hunter for share of fund divisible among the Freemen for year ending at Martinmas 1868
BP/4/3/194 29 [ ] 1869 Receipt from Agnes Mitchell for lunch and whisky
BP/4/6/587 17 February 1869 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/584 24 February 1869 Receipt from a trustee of the late Mr James Hunter for payment of feu duty
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BP/4/3/196 10 March 1869 Receipt for school salary - Walter Beaton
BP/4/4/202 20 March 1869 Receipt for share of Reverend Doctor Laurie's stipend for crop year 1868
BP/4/5/130 20 March 1869 Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/6/349 21 April 1869 - Accounts relative to entries - the Burgh of 23 August 1870 Prestwick to C B Rowan
BP/4/5/131 2 June 1869 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/132 17 June 1869 Receipt from James Andrew, mason for work done
BP/4/6/130 22 June 1869 Receipt for payment due to Mr John Ross, junior, Glasgow
BP/4/3/197 30 July 1869 Receipt for school salary - Walter Beaton
BP/4/6/582 3 August 1869 Receipt from J McDerment, 47 Newmarket Street, Ayr for laying off roads and measuring ground
BP/4/6/581 18 August 1869 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Inn for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/12 11 November 1869 Receipt for payment of feu duty for ground opposite school house
BP/4/3/193 12 November 1869 Receipt for payment of schoolmaster's salary - J M Cowan
BP/4/6/580 17 November 1869 Receipt from James Andrew, mason for repairing spire and roof of townhouse
BP/4/3/195 23 November 1869 Receipt for school salary - Walter Beaton
BP/4/3/198 23 November 1869 Receipt for officer's salary
BP/4/6/20 24 November 1869 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion Hotel, for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/201 26 November 1869 Receipt from James Gibson for payment of salary as Burgh officer
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BP/4/6/123 30 November 1869 Receipt for payment due to Doctor McQuhae
BP/4/6/127 15 December 1869 Receipt for payment from the common good due to T S Lindsay, Esquire of Hollymount
BP/4/6/350 22 December 1869 Accounts relative to entries - the Burgh of - 18 August 1871 Prestwick to C B Rowan
BP/4/6/579 1869 Receipt for county rates for Ayrshire
BP/4/6/583 1869 Receipt for land cess or stent
BP/4/6/590 1869 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1868 - 1869
BP/4/6/5 16 February 1870 Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion, Prestwick for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/9 8 March 1870 Poor rates for Prestwick
BP/4/6/19 9 March 1870 Receipt from Reverend Laurie for payment of stipend for crop year 1869
BP/4/6/126 31 May 1870 Receipt for payment due to Mr John Ross, junior, Glasgow
BP/4/3/180 7 June 1870 Receipt for forming road at Whinfield
BP/4/6/16 8 June 1870 Offer to reslate smithy from J and N Murchie, George Street, Ayr
BP/4/6/17 15 June 1870 Offer to reslate smithy from James Ferguson and Company, Ayr
BP/4/6/8 7 July 1870 Receipt from James Ferguson and Company, River Street, Wallacetown for stripping and reslating smithy
BP/4/6/122 8 July 1870 Receipt from Love and Williamson for payment of Captain Neill's dividend, Beith
BP/4/6/15 8 October 1870 Receipt from James McCowan, clerk to the Heritor's for payment of proportion of Heritor's assessment
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BP/4/6/2 25 October 1870 Receipt from Henry and Grant, Newmarket Street, Ayr for printing feu and teind notices and receipts
BP/4/6/21 1 November 1870 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/10 11 November 1870 Receipt from Alexander McMurtrie and Company, Prestwick for various school repairs
BP/4/6/3 17 November 1870 Receipt from John Kerr, 22 Regent Street, Kilmarnock for a suit of dress clothes for James Gibson, officer, Prestwick
BP/4/6/1 22 November 1870 Receipt for town clerk's salary
BP/4/6/18 22 November 1870 Receipt from Walter Beaton for teacher's salary
BP/4/6/556 22 November 1870 Receipt from James Hunter for payment of feu duty
BP/4/6/23 23 November 1870 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/377 26 November 1870 Receipt from Alexander Sloan, curator bonis to W I McWhinnie, for payment of dividend
BP/4/6/121 1 December 1870 Receipt from Love and Williamson for payment of Captain Neill's dividend, Beith
BP/4/6/483 6 December 1870 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/120 19 December 1870 Receipt for dividend of community fund payable to T S Lindsay of Hollymount, County Mayo, Ireland
BP/4/6/11 1870 County rates for Burgh of Prestwick for year ending Whitsunday 1870
BP/4/6/13 1870 Receipt for property and income tax 1869 - 1870
BP/4/6/14 1870 Receipt for payment of land cess or stent 1869 - 1870
BP/4/6/22 1870 Receipt from James McCowan for school salary for period 11 November 1869 - 11 November 1870
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BP/4/6/564 1870 Receipt from Reverend George James Laurie for payment of stipend for crop year 1870
BP/4/6/565 15 February 1871 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/562 4 March 1871 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/6/125 30 May 1871 Receipt for payment due to Mr John Ross, junior, Glasgow
BP/4/6/563 31 May 1871 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/569 6 June 1871 Receipt from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for rebuilding part of the kirkyard wall
BP/4/6/561 2 August 1871 Receipt from Robert Lockhart for catching moles
BP/4/6/560 16 August 1871 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/568 2 September 1871 Receipt for payment of Heritors assessment
BP/4/6/554 22 November 1871 Receipt from Alexander McMurtrie and Company for glazing work at smith shop and school house
BP/4/6/557 25 November 1871 Receipt from Walter Beaton for payment of salary as Burgh teacher
BP/4/6/352 27 November 1871 - Account from C B Rowan 27 November 1872
BP/4/6/555 28 November 1871 Receipt from James Gibson for payment of salary as Burgh officer
BP/4/6/519 29 November 1871 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/124 1 December 1871 Receipt for dividend payment due to T S Lindsay, Ireland
BP/4/6/376 1 December 1871 Receipt from Alexander Sloan, curator bonis to W I McWhinnie, for payment of dividend
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BP/4/6/501 2 December 1871 Receipt for payment of Mr William Reid's claim against the Burgh for one half of the cost of cleaning the march ditches between Clune and the Burgh lands in the year 1868
BP/4/6/500 11 December 1871 Receipt from James Hunter for payment of feu duty
BP/4/6/4 1871 Receipt from Robert Lockhard, Prestwick for killing moles during period February 1870 - 1871
BP/4/6/558 1871 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1870 - 1871
BP/4/6/559 1871 Receipt from James McCowan, parish schoolmaster for payment of salary for period 11 November 1870 - 11 November 1871
BP/4/6/566 1871 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for period 1870 - 1871
BP/4/6/567 1871 Receipt for payment of land cess or stent for period 1870 - 1871
BP/4/6/507 14 February 1872 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/506 27 February 1872 Receipted account from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for work done
BP/4/6/516 2 March 1872 Receipt for payment of Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/6/505 11 March 1872 Receipt from Reverend James Laurie, Doctor of Divinity for payment of stipend for crop year 1871
BP/4/6/502 1 May 1872 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company for meter rent
BP/4/6/503 30 May 1872 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/382 11 June 1872 Receipt from W and J Pollock and William Andrew for payment of dividend due to Mr John Ross junior
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BP/4/6/515 24 June 1872 Receipt from Robert Lockhart, Prestwick for killing moles
BP/4/6/514 14 August 1872 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/510 6 September 1872 Receipt from John Mitchell, joiner, Wallacetown for work done on town buildings
BP/4/6/511 4 November 1872 Receipt from John Kerr, Regent Street, Kilmarnock for suit of livery for Burgh officer
BP/4/6/513 5 November 1872 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/372 22 November 1872 Receipt from James Hunter for payment of feu duty
BP/4/6/517 22 November 1872 Receipt from Alexander McMurtrie and Company, joiners and glaziers, Prestwick for materials supplied and repairs done
BP/4/6/504 25 November 1872 Receipt from James Gibson for payment of salary as Burgh officer
BP/4/6/512 25 November 1872 Receipt from Walter Beaton for payment of salary as Burgh teacher
BP/4/3/20 27 November 1872 Letter to John Gray, Treasurer of the Burgh of Prestwick from Charles MacArthur junior, regarding a feu sometime belonging to his grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Boyd or MacArthur
BP/4/6/373 27 November 1872 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/375 28 November 1872 Receipt from Alexander Sloan, curator bonis to W I McWhinnie, for payment of dividend
BP/4/6/374 1872 Receipt from Reverend Doctor Laurie for payment of stipend for crop year 1872
BP/4/6/499 1872 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1871 - 1872
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BP/4/6/508 1872 Receipt for payment of county rates for period 1871 - 1872
BP/4/6/509 1872 Receipt from James M Cowan for payment of school salary from 11 November 1871 - 11 November 1872
BP/4/6/518 1872 Receipt for payment of land cess or stent
BP/4/6/371 2 January 1873 Receipt from Patrick McKay for painting windows and doors of Burgh school house
BP/4/6/370 4 January 1873 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/6/380 11 February 1873 Receipt from William McLellan for David Campbell, agent, for payment of dividend due to T S Lindsay, Esquire of Hollymount, Ireland
BP/4/6/368 22 February 1873 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/365 8 March 1873 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates - land and tenant under £4
BP/4/6/366 8 March 1873 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates - smithy - empty
BP/4/6/367 2 April 1873 Covering letter and receipt for payment of Heritors assessment for defraying expenses of insurance premium and necessary repairs
BP/4/6/360 15 May 1873 Receipt from James M Cowan, schoolmaster for payment of half year salary
BP/4/6/363 28 May 1873 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/520 3 June 1873 Receipt from Pollock and Hunter for annual income payable to Mr John Ross junior as a Freeman of the Burgh
BP/4/6/527 June 1873 Receipt for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/6/361 17 July 1873 Receipt from Robert Lockhart, Prestwick for killing moles
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BP/4/6/358 21 August 1873 Receipt from James Gibson for payment of salary as Burgh officer
BP/4/6/357 26 August 1873 Receipt from John Semple, ironmonger, High Street, Ayr for shovel and spade
BP/4/6/359 26 August 1873 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/356 1 October 1873 Receipt from Hugh Boyd for donation of £5 towards the expense of making a drain in Kirk Street
BP/4/6/353 22 November 1873 Receipt from Walter Beaton, Burgh teacher for payment of salary
BP/4/6/354 22 November 1873 Receipt from James Moore for payment of Burgh officer's salary
BP/4/6/498 22 November 1873 Receipted account from C B Rowan, solicitor, Ayr for business undertaken between November 1871 and August 1873 for the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/541 26 November 1873 Receipt from James Hunter for payment of feu duty
BP/4/6/540 27 November 1873 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/378 28 November 1873 Receipt from Alexander Sloan, curator bonis to W I McWhinnie, for payment of dividend
BP/4/6/381 1 December 1873 Receipt from William McLellan for David Campbell, agent, for payment of dividend due to T S Lindsay, Esquire of Hollymount, Ireland
BP/4/6/362 1873 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/6/364 1873 Receipt for payment of land cess or stent for period 1872 - 1873
BP/4/6/369 1873 Receipt for payment of county rates for period 1872 - 1873
BP/4/6/523 1873 Receipt from Reverend James Laurie for payment of stipend for crop year 1873
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BP/4/6/547 3 January 1874 Receipt from John Kerr, tailor and clothier for altering a suit of dress clothes
BP/4/6/546 16 January 1874 Receipt from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for repairing the Burgh cross
BP/4/6/526 23 February 1874 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/535A 2 March 1874 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/6/530 14 March 1874 Receipt from Charles Bryan, joiner for repairs to school seats, desks and glazing
BP/4/6/536 20 March 1874 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/6/531 26 March 1874 Receipt from Charles Bryan, joiner for putting up platform for clock at Burgh spire
BP/4/5/32 31 March, 1 and Minute of agreement between the Burgh of 3 April 1874 Prestwick and Messrs Robert Addie and Sons, iron and coalmasters, Coatbridge concerning mining rights
BP/4/6/535 4 April 1874 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/6/529 21 April 1874 Receipt from John Meikle, Wallacetown for 12 panes of glass
BP/4/6/282 26 May 1874 Receipt from Pollock and Hunter for payment of divide of community funds due to Mr John Ross, junior
BP/4/6/539 30 May 1874 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/545 4 June 1874 Receipt from Hugh Henry, Newmarket Street, Ayr for printing
BP/4/6/528 June 1874 Receipt for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/6/525 21 July 1874 Receipt from Robert Lockhart for killing moles
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BP/4/6/537 19 August 1874 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/532 12 October 1874 Receipt from James McDerment and Sons for tracing plan of Burgh
BP/4/6/521 3 November 1874 Receipt from George Morton for annual income payable to him
BP/4/6/522 3 November 1874 Receipt from R Campbell for annual income payable to him
BP/4/6/524 10 November 1874 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/6/533 10 November 1874 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for dinners and drink
BP/4/6/548 20 November 1874 Receipt from John Kerr, tailor and clothier for altering a suit of clothes
BP/4/6/319 23 November 1874 Receipt from James Hunter for payment fo feu duty
BP/4/6/534 24 November 1874 Receipted account from C B Rowan, solicitor, Ayr for business regarding quarterly meetings and election
BP/4/6/317 25 November 1874 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/281 27 November 1874 Receipt from Alexander Sloan, curator bonis for W I McWhinnie for divide of community funds due
BP/4/6/321 22 December 1874 Receipt from G and E Cathcart, wholesale family grocer and wine merchants for a safe
BP/4/6/542 1874 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for period 1873 - 1874
BP/4/6/543 1874 Receipt for payment of land tax, cess or stent for period 1873 - 1874
BP/4/6/544 1874 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1873 - 1874
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BP/4/6/544A 1874 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1873 - 1874
BP/4/6/280 18 January 1875 Receipt from William McLellan, Mount Hamilton, Ayr for David Campbell, Ayr, agent for Thomas Spenser Lindsay Esquire, Ireland, for divide of community funds to Martinmas 1874
BP/4/6/305 19 February 1875 Receipt for payment of assessed levy as recommended by the Heritors
BP/4/6/291 22 February 1875 Receipt for payment of assessment for repairs to church manse, etc.
BP/4/6/288 2 March 1875 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/313 9 March 1875 Receipt from Reverend George James Laurie for payment of stipend for year 1874
BP/4/6/311 11 May 1875 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates - school house
BP/4/6/312 11 May 1875 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates - land and tenant under £4
BP/4/6/283 1 June 1875 Receipt from Pollock and Hunter for payment of divide of community funds due to Mr John Ross, junior
BP/4/6/310 19 June 1875 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/309 June 1875 Receipt for renewal of insurance policy
BP/4/6/307 24 August 1875 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/413 25 October 1875 Copy of letter from Messrs Fyfe, Miller, Fyfe & Ireland, Edinburgh to C B Rowan refers to ongoing legal case
BP/4/6/303 11 November 1875 Receipt from James Hunter for sum of 5/- feu duty due to him
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BP/4/6/306 22 November 1875 Receipt from James Moore for payment of salary as Burgh officer
BP/4/6/308 22 November 1875 Receipt from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for materials supplied and work done on school and new bridge
BP/4/6/292 23 November 1875 Receipt from William Mitchell for carting away rubbish from road leading from New Prestwick up to school house
BP/4/6/304 25 November 1875 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/301 18 December 1875 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/6/302 December 1875 Receipt from John Meikle, slater, glazier and plumber, River Street, Ayr sent to the school board, Prestwick for roof repairs
BP/4/6/314 1875 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for period 1874 - 1875
BP/4/6/315 1875 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for period 1874 - 1875
BP/4/6/316 1875 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1874 - 1875
BP/4/6/318 1875 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties addressed to school board of Monkton for school house, Prestwick for period 1874 - 1875
BP/4/6/320 1875 Receipt for payment of land tax, cess or stent for period 1874 - 1875
BP/4/6/289 11 January 1876 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/6/299 11 January 1876 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/6/300 11 January 1876 Receipt for payment of land tax, cess or stent
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BP/4/6/295 15 January 1876 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/3/56 19 January 1876 Letter to the Chief Magistrate of Prestwick from Mr James Dickie, Council Chambers, Irvine regarding the appointment of a committee to oppose a proposed scheme to discharge the sewage of Glasgow on the Ayrshire coast
BP/4/5/33 3 March 1876 Renunciation by Messrs Robert Addie and Sons to the Burgh of Prestwick, concerning mining rights
BP/4/6/286 3 March 1876 Receipt from Reverend George James Laurie for payment of stipend for crop year 1875
BP/4/6/296 4 March 1876 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/287 9 March 1876 Receipt from Robert Lockhart, Prestwick for killing moles
BP/4/6/297 25 May 1876 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates - school house
BP/4/6/298 25 May 1876 Receipt for payment of Monkton and Prestwick poor rates - land and tenants under £4
BP/4/6/290 10 June 1876 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/278 July 1876 Receipt for renewal of insurance policy
BP/4/6/322 21 August 1876 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/324 30 October 1876 Receipt for payment of Heritors assessed levy for payment of insurance and tradesmen's accounts
BP/4/6/326 4 November 1876 Receipt from John Kerr, tailor and clothier, Kilmarnock for making a dress suit and supplying double milled blue cloth and best mounting with scarlet collar and gilt buttons for James Mair
BP/4/6/323 15 November 1876 Receipt from James Andrew, Monkton for repairing part of the kirkyard dyke
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BP/4/6/325 18 November 1876 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for election dinner
BP/4/6/327 18 November 1876 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/6/256 22 November 1876 Receipt from James Hunter for payment of feu duty
BP/4/6/553 22 November 1876 Receipted account from C B Rowan for business undertaken in connection with letting of minerals and lease thereof for period 1872 - 1875 and annual salary
BP/4/6/277 2 December 1876 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/270 7 December 1876 Receipt from Alexander Breckenridge and Son for attention to clock
BP/4/6/293 1876 Receipt for county rates for period 1875 - 1876
BP/4/6/294 1876 Receipt for county rates for period 1875 - 1877
BP/4/6/268 16 January 1877 Receipt for payment of property and income tax on school house
BP/4/6/284 16 January 1877 Receipt for payment of land tax, cess or stent
BP/4/6/285 16 January 1877 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/6/388 20 February 1877 Receipt for payment in Browning action as directed in minutes of the Burgh
BP/4/6/257 27 February 1877 Receipt from Reverend Doctor Laurie for payment of proportion of stipend
BP/4/6/260 3 March 1877 Receipt for payment of poor rates on Burgh school house
BP/4/6/261 3 March 1877 Receipt for payment of poor rates on land and tenants under £4
BP/4/6/273 9 March 1877 Account from John Meikle, slater, glazier and plumber, Wallacetown, Ayr for work done and materials supplied
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BP/4/6/266 March 1877 Receipt from R Henderson, plasterer, Troon for work in Burgh school as per contract
BP/4/6/439 6 April 1877 - 11 Account to the Burgh of Prestwick by C B Rowan May 1881 solicitor
BP/4/6/267 31 May 1877 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/538 20 June 1877 Receipt from Daniel McKechnie, Newtonhead Rope Work for rope
BP/4/4/112 5 July 1877 Receipt from Treasurer Gray further in accounts - Burgh against [Browning]
BP/4/6/279 July 1877 Receipt for renewal of insurance policy
BP/4/6/271 4 September 1877 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/272 1 October 1877 Receipt from William Johnston and Son, painters, paper hangers and gilders, Ayr for account as rendered
BP/4/6/271A 17 October 1877 Receipt from John Dodd, Tarbolton for killing moles
BP/4/6/274 22 November 1877 Account and receipt from Newton Steam and Joiner Work for work done and materials supplied
BP/4/6/275 23 November 1877 Receipt from James Andrew, Monkton for repairing the school fireplace
BP/4/6/276 27 November 1877 Receipt from C B Rowan for payment of salary
BP/4/6/255 28 November 1877 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/258 1877 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for period 1876 - 1877
BP/4/6/259 1877 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1876 - 1877
BP/4/3/166 1878 Receipt for stipend for crop year
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BP/4/3/171 1878 Receipt for measuring ground
BP/4/6/249 1878 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1877 - 1878 [feus and casualties]
BP/4/6/250 1878 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1877 - 1878 [feus and casualties] - school house, Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/252 1878 Receipt for payment of county rates, Ayrshire, assessed on lands for period 1877 - 1878
BP/4/6/252A 1878 Receipt for payment of county rates, Ayrshire, assessed on house property for period 1877 - 1878
BP/4/6/253 1878 Receipt for payment of land tax, cess or stent for period 1877 - 1878
BP/4/6/241 29 January 1878 Receipt from Hugh Henry, Ayr for printing
BP/4/6/242 29 January 1878 Receipt from Hugh Henry, Ayr for printing
BP/4/6/438 16 February 1878 - Account of expenses incurred by C B Rowan, 2 August 1880 solicitor in connection with claim for old arrears, the Burgh of Prestwick against John Taylor Gordon Esquire, so far as arranged not to be payable by Mr Gordon
BP/4/6/251 27 February 1878 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/437 February 1878 - Receipted account of C B Rowan, solicitor, Ayr - February 1889 the Burgh of Prestwick in connection with lease to the Burgh school board and other matters
BP/4/6/248 5 March 1878 Receipt for payment of proportion of minister's stipend for crop year 1877 to the widow of the late Revered Doctor Laurie
BP/4/6/329 1 April 1878 Receipt for measurement of ground belonging to James Hunter and leased to the school board
BP/4/6/247 19 April 1878 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
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BP/4/6/245 24 May 1878 Receipt for payment of poor rates on land and tenants under £4
BP/4/6/246 24 May 1878 Receipt for payment of poor rates on Burgh school house
BP/4/6/328 27 May 1878 Receipt from James Hunter for payment of feu duty and also for ground leased
BP/4/6/243 4 June 1878 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/244 June 1878 Receipt from the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company
BP/4/6/238 17 August 1878 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/239 25 September 1878 Receipt from John Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/6/240 28 September 1878 Receipt from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for work done and materials supplied
BP/4/6/331 30 October 1878 Receipt from John Meikle, River Street, Wallacetown for repairing windows in council rooms
BP/4/6/237 11 November 1878 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/6/330 19 November 1878 Receipt for payment of clerk's salary
BP/4/3/176 22 November 1878 Assessment for repairs and improvements on Monkton manse, office, house and church levied in respect of the Burgh school
BP/4/6/332 22 November 1878 Receipt from James Moore for year's salary plus three pounds sterling in lieu of a suit of clothes
BP/4/3/170 November/ Receipt from the Red Lion Hotel December 1878
BP/4/3/168 1878 - 1879 Receipt for property and income tax and inhabited house duties
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BP/4/3/172 1878 - 1879 Receipt for property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/3/173 1878 - 1879 Receipt for land tax, cess or stent
BP/4/3/174 1878 - 1879 Receipt for county rates for Ayrshire
BP/4/3/177 5 March 1879 Receipt for Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/3/162 8 March 1879 Receipt from the Red Lion Hotel
BP/4/3/160 20 March 1879 Receipt for Monkton stipend crop 1878
BP/4/3/161 26 May 1879 Receipt for payment of feu and tack duty for pieces of ground at the schoolhouse
BP/4/6/269 14 July 18[79] Receipt from James Reid for lunches and drink
BP/4/3/163 2 September 1879 Receipt from the Red Lion Hotel
BP/4/3/179 13 October 1879 Receipt for payment made to John Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles on the Freedoms of Prestwick
BP/4/3/164 31 October 1879 Receipt for forming road to Caerlaverock
BP/4/3/165 22 November 1879 Receipt for Burgh officer's salary
BP/4/3/167 25 November 1879 Receipt for clerk's salary
BP/4/6/464 13 December 1879 Receipt for payment of assessment imposed by the Heritors for church repairs and improvements
BP/4/3/169 1879 Receipt for renewal of insurance on school house
BP/4/3/175 1879 Receipt from Red Lion Hotel
BP/4/3/178 1879 Receipt from the Red Lion Hotel
BP/4/6/465A 6 January 1880 Receipt from James McDerment and Sons, civil engineers, Ayr for laying off road through Back Riggs
BP/4/4/16 8 January 1880 Receipt for land tax, cess and stent
BP/4/6/468 8 January 1880 Receipt for payment of property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax
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BP/4/6/459 27 January 1880 Receipt for payment of property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax by the clerk to Monkton School Board, Prestwick
BP/4/6/470 27 January 1880 Receipt from John Hutton for deeping (sic) a ditch belonging to the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/496 3 February 1880 Receipt for payment of property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax
BP/4/6/472 24 February 1880 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/463 28 February - Receipt for payment of poor rates 25 May 1880
BP/4/6/462 21 April 1880 Receipt for payment of stipend to Revered Walter F Lorraine for crop year 1879
BP/4/6/475 20 May 1880 Receipt from Hugh McKay, Prestwick for contract forming road past the Red Lion towards Caerlaverock
BP/4/6/477 26 May 1880 Receipt from Mrs James Hunter for payment of tack duty and feu duty for piece of ground opposite the school house
BP/4/6/473A 8 June 1880 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/474 28 July 1880 Receipt from Hugh McKay, Prestwick for contract forming road at Caerlaverock to Mr Bacon's house
BP/4/6/460 July 1880 Receipt for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/6/480 20 August 1880 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/17 13 October 1880 Receipt from David Guthrie for repairing two bridges
BP/4/6/476 18 October 1880 Receipt from John Dodd and Son for catching moles
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BP/4/6/466 1 November 1880 Letter from J Dinning, Monkton regarding proportion of valuation due as required by the decision of the Heritors and Feuars at their June meeting
BP/4/6/471 3 November 1880 Receipt from J Dinning for payment of proportion of the assessment on Monkton manse, etc.
BP/4/6/481 8 November 1880 Receipt from Royal Hotel for purveying election dinner in council room
BP/4/6/465 9 Novemeber 1880 Receipt from Allan [ ], road surveyor for putting the road from town buildings to Kirkgate in order prior to being taken over on the Monkton Parish road
BP/4/6/474 13 November 1880 Receipt from John Meikle for window glazing
BP/4/6/469 22 November 1880 Receipt from William Graham, tailor and clothier for suit for James Muir, Burgh officer
BP/4/6/467 23 November 1880 Receipt for payment of clerks salary
BP/4/6/484 24 November 1880 Receipt from Royal Hotel for Freemen's lunch and drink
BP/4/6/482 28 November 1880 Receipt from James Moore for salary as Burgh officer
BP/4/6/473 1880 Receipt for payment of county rates for period 1879 - 1880
BP/4/6/485 6 January 1881 Receipt for payment of property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax
BP/4/6/486 6 January 1881 Receipt for payment of property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax
BP/4/6/487 6 January 1881 Receipt for payment of land tax
BP/4/6/497 6 January 1881 Receipt for payment of property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax
BP/4/6/490 1 March 1881 Receipt from Reverend John Patrick for payment of stipend for crop year 1880
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BP/4/6/491 8 March 1881 Receipt from the executors of the late Revered W F Lorraine for payment of stipend for crop year 1880
BP/4/6/489 24 March 1881 Receipt from Royal Hotel for Freemen's lunches and drink
BP/4/6/478 26 May 1881 Receipt from Mrs James Hunter for payment of tack duty for piece of ground opposite the school house
BP/4/6/479 26 May 1881 Receipt from Mrs James Hunter for payment of feu duty for piece of ground opposite the school house
BP/4/6/493 6 June 1881 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/493A 6 June 1881 Receipt from Alexander Breckenridge and Son for work on Burgh turret clock
BP/4/6/461 July 1881 Receipt for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/6/493B 31 August 1881 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/494 14 September 1881 Receipt from John Dodd and Son, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/5/97 12 November 1881 Receipt for payment of salary to the Burgh clerk
BP/4/6/495 15 November 1881 Receipt from Hugh Henry, Newmarket Street, Ayr for printing
BP/4/6/492 22 November 1881 Receipt from James Moore, Burgh officer for salary
BP/4/4/184 22/23 November Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for 1881 lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/440 29 November 1881 - Account to the Burgh of Prestwick by C B Rowan, November 1882 solicitor
BP/4/6/488 1881 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for period 1880 - 1881
BP/4/4/182 1881 - 1882 Receipt for county rates
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BP/4/4/186 1881 - 1882 Receipt for property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax
BP/4/4/185 5 January 1882 Receipt for land tax
BP/4/4/196 5 January 1882 Receipt for property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax - Elizabeth Manson
BP/4/4/197 5 January 1882 Receipt for property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax - Luke Skelly
BP/4/4/195 1 February 1882 Receipt for property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax - Isabella Logan
BP/4/4/183A 15 February 1882 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/134 25 February 1882 Receipt for payment of minister's stipend to Reverend John Patrick for crop year 1881
BP/4/4/187 23 March 1882 Receipt from the Ayr Advertiser and Galloway Journal for advertising flat to let
BP/4/4/188 4 April 1882 Receipt from the Ayrshire Post for advertising flat to let
BP/4/4/183 11 April 1882 Receipt from John Meikle, Wallacetown for repairing windows
BP/4/4/189 11 April 1882 Receipt from the Observer Office for advertising flat to let
BP/4/4/190 26 May 1882 Receipt for Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/4/191 6 June 1882 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/192 9 September 1882 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/193 23 September 1882 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles on Prestwick Freedoms
BP/4/4/194 9 November 1882 Receipt from William Graham, tailor for making a suit for Burgh officer
BP/4/4/144 11 November 1882 Receipt for Burgh officer's salary
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BP/4/6/449 11 November 1882 Receipt for payment of Ayr District Road Trust conversion money
BP/4/4/198 15 November 1882 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for election dinner and drinks
BP/4/6/442 29 November 1882 Receipted account of John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/441 December 1882 - Account to James Andrew, solicitor, Ayr to November 1883 Prestwick Freemen
BP/4/5/98 1882 Receipt from the Liverpool and London Globe Insurance Company for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/6/451 9 January 1883 Receipt for payment of poor rates
BP/4/6/448 3 February 1883 Receipt from Alexander McIntosh for clearing of drain
BP/4/6/452 26 February 1883 Receipt from Reverend John Patrick for payment of part of stipend for crop year 1882
BP/4/6/445 9 March 1883 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/453 24 March 1883 Receipt from Adam D Wilson, painter and paperhanger, 253 High Street, for work done
BP/4/6/454 4 April 1883 Receipt from Susan Moore for cleaning of council room floor after the painters
BP/4/6/457 4 April 1883 Receipt from John Meikle, slater, glazier and plumber, River Street, Wallacetown for work done and materials supplied
BP/4/6/79 23 May 1883 Receipt from David Watson, builder, Prestwick for panes of glass
BP/4/6/455 28 May 1883 Receipt from David Watson, builder, Prestwick for work done and materials supplied
BP/4/6/131 30 May 1883 Receipt from Allan Gibb, High Street, Ayr for 24 chairs, etc.
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BP/4/6/456 30 May 1883 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/14 15 August 1883 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/446 September 1883 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/6/444 13 November 1883 Receipt from James Andrew, builder, Monkton for work on spire
BP/4/4/169 23 November 1883 Receipt for Burgh officer's salary
BP/4/6/71 13 December 1883 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/72 14 December 1883 Receipt for Monkton and Prestwick poor rates
BP/4/6/73 14 December 1883 Receipt from Hugh Henry, Newmarket Street, Ayr for printing
BP/4/6/74 31 December 1883 Receipt to John Gray of St Quivox Road for payment of property and income tax
BP/4/6/75 31 December 1883 Receipt to John Gray of St Quivox Road for payment of land tax
BP/4/4/154 1883 Receipt for portion of ministers stipend, Reverend John Patrick, for crop year
BP/4/6/343 1883 Receipt for renewal of fire insurance policy
BP/4/6/443 1883 Receipt for payment of land tax for period 1882 - 1883
BP/4/6/447 1883 Receipt for payment of property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax for period 1882 - 1883
BP/4/6/450 1883 Receipt for payment of county rates for Ayrshire for period 1882 - 1883
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BP/4/6/77 1883/1884 Receipt for payment and notice of assessment for county rates for Ayrshire
BP/4/6/77A 1883/1884 Receipt to Burgh for payment of county rates for Ayrshire
BP/4/4/156 February - Receipt from John Meikle, Wallacetown, Ayr for November 1884 repairing roof and windows
BP/4/6/189 23 February 1884 Receipt for payment of minister's stipend to Reverend John Patrick for crop year 1883
BP/4/6/78 8 March 1884 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/76 15 May 1884 Receipt to John Gray of St Quivox Road for payment of road assessment
BP/4/6/80 6 June 1884 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/82 3 September 1884 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/83 19 September 1884 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/6/84 7 October 1884 Receipt from John Murdoch, civil engineer, Sandgate, Ayr for preparing a copy of the lands of Prestwick including mounting the same on rollers
BP/4/6/86 8 November 1884 Receipt from John W Murray, Prestwick for blue cloth suit for Burgh officer
BP/4/6/85 12 November 1884 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/145 20 November 1884 Receipt from James Andrew, mason, Monkton for repairing bridge
BP/4/4/147 3 December 1884 Receipt from W Hunter for payment of feu duty for ground at Kirk Street
BP/4/4/146 4 December 1884 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
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BP/4/6/87 1884 Account - Prestwick Freemen from James Andrew, Town Clerk, Prestwick for period 30 November 1883 - 25 November 1884
BP/4/4/148 1884 - 1885 Receipt for poor and school rates (tenants)
BP/4/4/149 1884 - 1885 Receipt for poor and school rates (owners)
BP/4/4/150 1884 - 1885 Receipt for land tax
BP/4/4/151 1884 - 1885 Receipt for county rates
BP/4/4/153 1884 - 1885 Receipt for property, income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax
BP/4/4/158 1884 - 1885 Receipt for water supply (tenants)
BP/4/4/159 1884 - 1885 Receipt for water supply (owners)
BP/4/4/152 1885 Receipt for road assessment for year ending 15 May 1885
BP/4/6/81 1885 Receipt from The Liverpool and London Globe Insurance Company for renewal of fire policy to Midsummer 1885
BP/4/4/155 14 February 1885 Receipt from Alexander Breckenridge and Sons, Kilmarnock, watchmaker for attending to the public clock
BP/4/4/157 18 February 1885 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/8/16 February 1885 Disposition by William Paterson and others as trustees and with consent within mentioned, in favour of The Local Authority of the Parish of Monkton and Prestwick under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867. Subjects Solum of part of Raith Reservoir and Filters
BP/4/8/17 9 April 1885 Copy Disposition by John Stirling Esquire, in favor of The Local Authority of the Parish of Monkton and Prestwick, under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867. Subjects - Part of Solum of Raith Reservoir
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BP/4/4/160 27 April 1885 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for drink
BP/4/4/161 6 May 1885 Letter from Edinburgh agent requesting payment by Magistrates, Feuars and Freemen of share of expenses relating to decree of modification for locality of Monkton
BP/4/4/161A 6 May 1885 Letter and receipt from Edinburgh agent for payment of share of his taxed expenses
BP/4/4/163 June 1885 Receipt from The Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company
BP/4/4/162 14 July 1885 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/164 15 September 1885 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/165 18 September 1885 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles on Prestwick Freedoms
BP/4/4/167 26 October 1885 Receipt from Hugh Peebles, Prestwick for repairing grate and steeple clock
BP/4/5/115 3 November 1885 Receipt from David Watson, builder for panes of glass
BP/4/4/168 11 November 1885 Receipt from James Lockhart, Prestwick for repairing roof of old school
BP/4/4/166 14 November 1885 Receipt from James Gibson, Prestwick for putting in plain glass in council house
BP/4/4/170 24 November 1885 Receipt from James Andrew, solicitor, Ayr for work undertaken on behalf of Prestwick Freemen
BP/4/5/99 9 December 1885 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel, Prestwick for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/100 25 December 1885 Receipt from Alexander Breckenridge and Sons, Kilmarnock for attention to the clock
BP/4/5/101 December 1885 Receipt for payment of rates for year 1885 - 1886. Owners' proportion
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BP/4/5/102 December 1885 Receipt for payment of rates for year 1885 - 1886. Tenants' proportion
BP/4/5/103 December 1885 Receipt for water and drainage rates for the year 1885 - 1886. Tenants' proportion
BP/4/5/104 December 1885 Receipt for water and drainage rates for the year 1885 - 1886. Owners' proportion
BP/4/6/135 [1885] Receipt for payment of minister's stipend to Reverend John Patrick for crop year 1888
BP/4/3/159 1885 - 1886 Demand for property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax issued to Peter Clark, slater, Bank Street, Kilmarnock
BP/4/5/108 1886 Account for road assessment for year ending 15 May 1886
BP/4/5/105 January 1886 Receipt for property and income tax, inhabited house duties and land tax 1885 - 1886
BP/4/5/106 January 1886 Receipt for land tax 1885 - 1886
BP/4/5/107 January 1886 Receipt for county rates for Ayrshire 1885 - 1886
BP/4/5/128 8 January - 30 Account, Prestwick Freemen to James Andrew, September 1886 solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/5/109 20 January 1886 Receipt from James Smith, Ayr for correcting the steeple clock
BP/4/5/110 2 February 1886 Receipt from John Meikle, Wallacetown, Ayr for repairing roof of council rooms
BP/4/5/112 20 February 1886 Receipt from James Gibson, joiner and builder, Prestwick for repairs to the council house
BP/4/5/111 18 March 1886 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/113 March 1886 Receipt from Reverend John Patrick for payment of proportion of stipend for the crop year 1885
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BP/4/5/114 24 May 1886 Receipt from James Lockhart, Darling Place, Prestwick, plumber, gasfitter and slater for repair to council rooms roof
BP/4/5/118 24 May 1886 Receipt from Thomas McClatchie for carting stones and ashes to the Burgh Hall
BP/4/5/116 31 May 1886 Receipt from Annie Hunter for William Hunter for payment of feu duty due at Martinmas 1885
BP/4/5/119 8 June 1886 Receipt from James Andrew for payment of Heritors assessment imposed at meeting on 10 February for repairs to church and manse
BP/4/5/117 15 June 1886 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/121 17 July 1886 Receipt from James Andrew, mason for renewing causeway at the Burgh Hall and pointing walls
BP/4/5/122 8 October 1886 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/123 11 October 1886 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles on Prestwick freedoms for one year
BP/4/5/125 3 November 1886 Receipt from Hugh Peebles, horseshoer and jobbing smith for attending to locks on council rooms
BP/4/5/124 9 November 1886 Receipt from Andrew Brown, Royal Hotel, Prestwick for drink and election dinner
BP/4/5/127 11 November 1886 Receipt for payment of Burgh Officer's salary
BP/4/5/126 16 November 1886 Receipt from Currie, Rae and Company for suit of clothes for the Burgh Officer
BP/4/5/129 19 November 1886 Receipt from James Lockhart, Prestwick for repairing gas pipes
BP/4/6/52 22 November 1886 Receipt for payment of ground rent for piece of ground in Kirk Street, Prestwick
BP/4/6/53 7 December 1886 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
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BP/4/6/54 8 December 1886 Receipt from James Gibson for panes of glass and hanging windows in council house
BP/4/6/55 4 January 1887 Receipt for land tax for period 1889 - 1890
BP/4/6/63 18 February 1887 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/57 8 March 1887 Receipt from John Campbell, Prestwick for attention to gas escape in Burgh Hall
BP/4/6/64 10 March 1887 Receipt from James Smith, Ayr for attention to clock during 1886
BP/4/6/50 15 April 1887 Receipt from Hugh Peebles, Prestwick for repairing steeple bell
BP/4/6/59 15 May 1887 Receipt for road assessment
BP/4/6/65 17 May 1887 Receipt from Currie, Rae and Company for a felt hat for officer
BP/4/6/66 7 June 1887 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/46 2 July 1887 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for coal and drink
BP/4/6/58 17 July 1887 Receipt from John Campbell, Prestwick for repairing gas pipes at Burgh School
BP/4/6/48 2 September 1887 Receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/49 20 September 1887 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/6/51 17 November 1887 Receipt from James Moore for payment of Burgh Officer's salary
BP/4/3/139 16 December 1887 Receipt for feu duty paid by Mr Gray for ground at the head of Kirk Street
BP/4/3/158 1887 Receipt from Red Lion Hotel
BP/4/5/120 1887 Receipt for payment of fire insurance premium
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BP/4/6/56 1887 Receipt for property and income tax for period 1886 - 1887
BP/4/6/60 1887 Receipt for tenant's proportion of payment of poor, school, water and drainage rates for period 1886 - 1886
BP/4/6/61 1887 Receipt for owner's proportion of payment of poor, school, water and drainage rates for period 1886 - 1887
BP/4/6/62 1887 Receipt for county rates
BP/4/6/67 1887 Account - Prestwick Freemen to James Andrew, solicitor, Ayr for period 11 May 1887 - 16 November 1887
BP/4/6/136 [1887] Receipt from Reverend George James Laurie for payment of stipend for crop year 1865
BP/4/3/100 1887 - 1888 Receipt for county rates
BP/4/5/74 11 January 1888 Assessment for the year from Whitsunday 1887. Owners proportion, Burgh of Prestwick, number 252 receipt
BP/4/5/75 11 January 1888 Assessment for the year from Whitsunday 1887. Tenants proportion, Burgh of Prestwick, number 476 receipt
BP/4/5/76 11 January 1888 Assessment for the year from Whitsunday 1887. Owners proportion, Burgh of Prestwick, number 252 notice
BP/4/5/77 11 January 1888 Assessment for the year from Whitsunday 1887. Tenants proportion, Burgh of Prestwick, number 476 notice BP/4/3/133 20 January 1888 Road Assessment Notice for the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/4/201 31 January 1888 Receipt from James Smith, watch and clock maker, Ayr
BP/4/3/144 January 1888 Receipt for land tax
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BP/4/5/91 25 February 1888 Account and receipt from John Raeside, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drink
BP/4/5/137 1 March 1888 Receipt for payment of stipend to Reverend John Patrick for crop year 1887
BP/4/3/137 13 April 1888 Receipt from Robert Guthrie for levelling the road between the sea and railway
BP/4/3/99 15 May 1888 Receipt for payment by the Burgh of Prestwick of road assessment money
BP/4/3/138 19 May 1888 Receipt from R H Wilson, Gordon Place, Prestwick for decoration to Burgh Hall
BP/4/3/136 29 May 1888 Receipt from Alex Ferguson, printer and stationer
BP/4/3/135 30 May 1888 Receipt from the Red Lion Hotel
BP/4/3/134 30 June 1888 Receipt for insurance policy with the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company
BP/4/6/435 22 August 1888 Receipt from Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/436 24 September 1888 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/5/93 29 October 1888 Receipt from R H Wilson, Gordon Place, Prestwick, painter and decorator for painting work undertaken
BP/4/6/99 1 November 1888 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/5/94 12 November 1888 Receipt from David Watson and Company, builders, Prestwick for repairing door and window
BP/4/6/89 13 November 1888 Receipt from John Murdoch, civil engineer, Sandgate, Ayr for laying off road through Prestwick golf links
BP/4/6/93 14 November 1888 Receipt from Archibald McEwan, Royal Hotel, Prestwick for dinner and drink
BP/4/3/220 21 November 1888 Receipt for feu duty from Annie Hunter, Irvine
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BP/4/6/116 21 November 1888 Receipt from Heritors of Monkton and Prestwick for payment of assessment for church repairs
BP/4/4/36 22 November 1888 Receipt from Currie, Rae and Company, silk [mercers], linen drapers and clothiers, High Street, Ayr for officer's suit and cap
BP/4/6/458 22 November 1888 Receipt from James Moore for Burgh Officer's salary
BP/4/3/219 24 November 1888 Receipt from James Moore for gas, washing hall and table cloths, also for one years salary as Burgh Officer
BP/4/3/221 29 November 1888 Receipt for drink from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel, Prestwick
BP/4/6/47 1888 Receipt for fire insurance
BP/4/6/90 1888 Account between James Andrew and Prestwick Freemen for period 3 February 1888 - 20 November 1888
BP/4/6/578 1888 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1887 - 1888
BP/4/6/111 22 January 1889 Receipt from James Smith, Ayr for attending to the clock
BP/4/6/104 29 January 1889 Receipt for payment of county rates
BP/4/6/100 1 February 1889 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/6/102 29 March 1889 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/105 15 May 1889 Receipt for payment of road assessment
BP/4/6/97 17 June 1889 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel, for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/98 25 June 1889 Receipt for fire insurance renewal
BP/4/6/103 27 August 1889 Receipt from William Sutherland, Argyle Street, Glasgow for new account book
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BP/4/6/106 7 September 1889 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/96 28 September 1889 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/6/95 31 October 1889 Receipt from J and J Andrew, masons, Monkton for work on steeple
BP/4/6/26 1 November 1889 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/6/69 22 November 1889 Receipt from Annie Hunter for William Hunter for payment of feu duty due 22 November 1889
BP/4/6/108 22 November 1889 Receipt from John Gray for payment of Burgh Treasurer's salary
BP/4/5/92 26 November 1889 Letter from Provost William Mutter, Crescent Park, Ardrossan, enclosing payment of feu duty. Apology for being unable to attend the meeting of Prestwick Freemen but is ill in bed
BP/4/6/36 26 November 1889 Receipt from David Watson, Prestwick for 2 panes of glass for Burgh Hall
BP/4/6/68 18 December 1889 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/24 1889 Receipt for minister David A Reid's stipend for the crop year 1889
BP/4/6/101 1889 Statement of minister's stipend for crop year 1888 receipted by Reverend A Reid
BP/4/6/107 1889 Receipt from James Moore for payment of Burgh Officer's salary Martinmas 1889 - 22 November 1889
BP/4/6/109 1889 Account of Prestwick Freemen from James Andrew, Town Clerk, Prestwick for period 27 November 1888 - 22 November 1889
BP/4/6/112 1889 Receipt for payment of land tax for period 1888 - 1889
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BP/4/6/113 1889 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1888 - 1889
BP/4/6/114 1889 Receipt for payment of owner's proportion of assessment for period 1888 - 1889
BP/4/6/115 1889 Demand for payment of assessment for the year 1888 - 1889 - tenant's and owner's proportions
BP/4/6/115A 1889 Receipt for payment of assessment for the year 1888 - 1889 - tenant's proportions
BP/4/6/45 1889/1890 Account - Prestwick Freemen to James Andrew, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/3/146 1 January 1890 Printed form of return to be made to the Board of Supervision
BP/4/6/32 2 January 1890 Receipt for land tax for period 1889 - 1890
BP/4/6/27 1 February 1890 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/6/29 11 February 1890 Receipt from James Smith, Ayr for attending clock for 1889
BP/4/6/28 19 February 1890 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/30 15 May 1890 Receipt for road assessment
BP/4/6/25 19 June 1890 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/3 24 June 1890 Letter from County Buildings, Ayr regarding which body should be held responsible to the Board of Supervision under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 [or Section 5 of the Nuisances Removal Act 1856]
BP/4/6/550 26 June 1890 Letter from James Andrew, Newmarket Street, Ayr confirming legal advice given verbally
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BP/4/3/147 9 July 1890 Minutes of meeting of the Chancellor, Magistrates and Council of the Burgh of Prestwick at which they concluded that in the circumstances in which the Freemen of the Burgh of Prestwick are placed, they could not under the statutes be appointed local authority for the Burgh and declined to act as local authority
BP/4/5/31 August 1890 Printed copies of amended by-laws recommended by the Board of Supervision for Regulating the Duties of Medical Officers (other than medical officers of counties) and the Board of Supervision for Regulating the Duties of Sanitary Inspectors (other than sanitary inspectors of counties). 5 items
BP/4/6/39 20 August 1890 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drink
BP/4/6/40 17 September 1890 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/6/41 14 October 1890 Receipt from John Meikle, River Street, Wallacetown for repairing roof and windows
BP/4/6/38 28 October 1890 Receipt from James Lockhart, plumber, Prestwick for work on gas pipes
BP/4/5/135 11 November 1890 Receipt from William Hunter for payment of feu duty
BP/4/6/43 11 November 1890 Receipt for salary of deceased Burgh Officer, paid to his daughter
BP/4/6/44 11 November 1890 Receipt for payment of salary to John Gray, Maryfield, Prestwick, Burgh Treasurer
BP/4/6/42 19 November 1890 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for dinner and drink
BP/4/5/136 26 November 1890 Receipt from David Watson and Company, builders, Prestwick for one pane of glass
BP/4/5/133 29 November 1890 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
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BP/4/4/203 23 December 1890 Receipt for property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/5/80 23 December 1890 Account of Alexander Ferguson, High Street, Ayr for printing 50 invitations to dinner
BP/4/5/2 1890 Correspondence to determine which body should be held responsible to the Board of Supervision under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 [or Section 5 of the Nuisances Removal Act 1856]
BP/4/6/31 1890 Receipt for county rates for period 1889 - 1890
BP/4/6/33 1890 Receipt for property and income tax for period 1889 - 1890
BP/4/6/34 1890 Receipt for tenant's proportion of poor, school, public health, water and drainage assessment for period 1889 - 1890
BP/4/6/35 1890 Receipt for owner's proportion of poor, school, public health, water and drainage assessment for period 1889 - 1891
BP/4/3/79 1890 - 1891 Receipt for Ayrshire County rates for the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/3/155 17 January 1891 Ayrshire County assessment for Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/6/88 17 January 1891 Receipt for tenant's proportion of the assessment for the year 1890 - 1891
BP/4/5/139 27 January 1891 Receipt from James Smith, watch and clock maker, Ayr for attending to the steeple clock
BP/4/5/83 January 1891 Receipt for assessments for poor school and registration of births, deaths and marriages (owners) for the year from Whitsunday 1890
BP/4/6/91 1 February 1891 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/3/192 17 February 1891 Receipt from R H Wilson, painter for work done for Prestwick Freemen
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BP/4/5/140 18 February 1891 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel lunches and drinks
BP/4/3/234 30 April 1891 Account by G Gardiner, bakers, Prestwick for purvey for Monkton Sabbath School soiree
BP/4/3/235 4 May 1891 Account by Peter Napier, grocer, Prestwick for purvey for Monkton Sabbath School soiree
BP/4/6/347 22 May 1891 Receipt from James Lockhart, plumber, Gordon Place, Prestwick for work undertaken
BP/4/6/346 23 June 1891 Receipt from Hugh Henry, Newmarket Street, Ayr for binding manuscript book in cloth
BP/4/3/228 1 August 1891 Receipt for use of gas
BP/4/6/348 15 September 1891 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/117 16 September 1891 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/3/124 11 November 1891 Receipt from William Hunter, Kirk Street for payment of feu duty
BP/4/6/336 17 November 1891 Receipted account from James Andrew, solicitor, Ayr to Prestwick Freemen
BP/4/6/337 18 November 1891 Receipt for payment of treasurer's salary by the Freemen of Prestwick, to John Gray
BP/4/6/335 20 November 1891 Receipt from James Lockhart, plumber, Gordon Place, Prestwick for repair work undertaken
BP/4/3/126 18 December 1891 Receipt for poor and school rates paid by Prestwick Burgh as tenants
BP/4/3/127 18 December 1891 Receipt for poor and school rates paid by Prestwick Burgh as owners
BP/4/3/125 19 December 1891 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/37 1891 Receipt for fire insurance for Burgh Hall
BP/4/6/342 1891 Receipt for renewal of fire insurance policy
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BP/4/3/230 1891 - 1892 Receipt for rates - Ayrshire County Council, Parish of Monkton
BP/4/3/231 1891 - 1892 Receipt for property and income tax - Ayrshire County Council, town hall, etc.
BP/4/3/232 1891 - 1892 Receipt for land tax - Ayrshire County Council, Monkton
BP/4/3/236 19 January 1892 Account by James Smith, watch and clock maker, Ayr for attending to the steeple clock
BP/4/3/132 February 1892 Receipt for work on drains from David Watson, builders
BP/4/3/229 1 February 1892 Receipt for use of gas
BP/4/3/233 5 March 1892 Statement of stipend - Reverend David A Reid for 1891
BP/4/3/238 29 March 1892 Account by Alexander Ferguson, printer and stationer, Ayr for copies of feu duty documents
BP/4/3/239 March 1892 Account by James Steel, Red Lion Hotel, Prestwick for lunches, etc.
BP/4/3/237 17 May 1892 Account by James Smith, watch and clock maker, Ayr for repairs to the turret clock
BP/4/3/243 23 May 1892 Account by James Lockhart, plumber, Prestwick for hall repairs
BP/4/3/240 July 1892 Account by James Steel, Red Lion Hotel, Prestwick for lunches, etc.
BP/4/3/244 9 July 1892 Account by Currie, Rae and Company, drapers, Ayr for officers suit and cap, etc.
BP/4/3/241 September 1892 Account by James Steel, Red Lion Hotel, Prestwick for lunches, etc.
BP/4/3/246 22 September 1892 Account by Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/3/245 7 October 1892 Account by J and J Andrew, masons, Monkton for repairs to the town cross
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BP/4/4/27 11 November 1892 Receipt for William Hunter's feu duty
BP/4/3/248 15 November 1892 Receipt by William McEwan for salary due
BP/4/4/43 17 November 1892 - Receipted account from James Andrew, writer in 28 November 1893 Ayr to Prestwick Freemen
BP/4/3/227 19 November 1892 Account by James Andrew to the Freemen of Prestwick for the period 13 November 1891 - 11 November 1892
BP/4/3/242 November 1892 Account by James Steel, Red Lion Hotel, Prestwick for dinner, etc.
BP/4/4/28 December 1892 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/29 13 December 1892 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and house duties
BP/4/4/30 13 December 1892 Receipt for payment of land tax
BP/4/4/31 14 December 1892 Receipt for payment of rates for the Parish of Monkton
BP/4/4/32 14 December 1892 Receipt for payment of rates for the Parish of Monkton
BP/4/4/33 14 December 1892 Receipt for payment of poor and school rates (owners) for property at Main Street
BP/4/4/34 14 December 1892 Receipt for payment of poor and school rates (tenants) for property at Kirk Street
BP/4/4/35 January 1893 Receipt from James Smith, practical watch and clock maker, Ayr for attending to the clock
BP/4/4/37 2 March 1893 Statement of minister's stipend for crop year 1892
BP/4/4/38 20 June 1893 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunch and drink on 31 May 1893 for the quarterly meeting of the Freemen of Prestwick
BP/4/4/39 24 June 1893 Receipt for renewal of fire policy by Scottish Union and National Insurance Company
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BP/4/4/40 18 September 1893 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/41 21 September 1893 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for payment for catching moles on Prestwick Freedoms
BP/4/3/249 11 November 1893 Receipt by William Hunter for ground rental at Kirk Street
BP/4/4/42 22 November 1893 Receipt for Burgh Officer's salary
BP/4/7/84 12 December 1893 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/85 12 December 1893 Receipt for payment of land tax for period 1893 - 1894
BP/4/7/86 12 December 1893 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1893 - 1894
BP/4/7/68 1893 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company for period May - August 1893
BP/4/7/69 1893 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company for period August - November 1894
BP/4/7/71 1893 Receipt from Reverend David Alan Reid for stipend for crop year
BP/4/7/67 4 January 1894 Receipt from James Smith, Ayr for attending to village clock
BP/4/7/70 March 1894 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/75 March - November Account - the Freemen of Prestwick to James 1894 Andrew, Town Clerk, Prestwick
BP/4/7/73 6 June 1894 Receipt from Alexander Ferguson, Ayr for printing and putting up bills
BP/4/7/74 24 June 1894 Receipt for fire insurance premium
BP/4/7/72 July 1894 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
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BP/4/7/88 11 September 1894 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/3/247 19 September 1894 Account by Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/4/140 November 1894 - Receipt from James Lockhard, Prestwick for June 1895 repairing the Burgh Hall roof
BP/4/7/79 6 November 1894 Receipt from David Watson, Prestwick for making front door for Burgh Hall
BP/4/7/78 15 November 1894 Receipt from Currie, Rae and Company for suit of clothes for Burgh Officer
BP/4/5/5 16 November 1894 - Account of business - the Burgh of Prestwick to R 12 December 1898 D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/7/76 20 November 1894 Receipt from Allan Gibb, Ayr for repairing and painting seal or crest on the Burgh drum
BP/4/7/83 22 November 1894 Receipt from James Lockhart, Prestwick for repairing roof of old school
BP/4/7/77 24 November 1894 Receipt from William McEwan, Burgh Officer for salary
BP/4/7/87 24 November 1894 Receipt for payment of treasurer's salary
BP/4/7/82 November 1894 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for dinner and drink
BP/4/4/124 December 1894 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/64 1894 Receipt for poor, school and registration of births and rates for period 1893 - 1894
BP/4/7/65 1894 Receipt for poor, school and registration of births and rates - tenants for period 1893 - 1894
BP/4/7/66 1894 Receipt for poor, school and registration of births and rates - tenants for period 1893 - 1894
BP/4/7/80 1894 Receipt for payment of Ayrshire County assessments for period 1893 - 1894
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BP/4/7/81 1894 Receipt for payment of Ayrshire County assessments for period 1893 - 1894
BP/4/4/125 1894 - 1895 Burgh rates receipt
BP/4/4/126 1894 - 1895 Burgh rates receipt
BP/4/4/127 1894 -1895 Receipt for land tax
BP/4/4/128 1894 - 1895 Receipt for property, income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/4/129 1894 - 1895 Receipt for poor and school rates (tenants)
BP/4/4/130 1894 - 1895 Receipt for poor and school rates (owners)
BP/4/4/132 15 March 1895 Receipt from James Smith, watch and clock maker, Sandgate, Ayr for attending to steeple clock
BP/4/4/131 18 March 1895 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel lunches and drinks
BP/4/4/135 24 June 1895 Receipt from Scottish Union and National Insurance Company for fire insurance
BP/4/4/137 24 July 1895 Receipt from Glasgow and South Western Railway Company for transporting goods from Ardrossan
BP/4/4/133 20 September 1895 Receipt from Reverend David A Reid for portion of stipend due for crop year 1894
BP/4/4/134 20 September 1895 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles on Prestwick Freedoms
BP/4/3/98 24 September 1895 Receipt for photographs paid to Walter J Scott, photographic artist, Ardrossan
BP/4/4/139 September - Receipt from David Watson, Prestwick for joinery, November 1895 etc.
BP/4/4/136 21 October 1895 Receipt from David Hepburn, ironmonger, Prestwick for a pail
BP/4/4/138 12 November 1895 Receipt from Hugh Peebles, Prestwick for attending to the bell
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BP/4/4/141 16 November 1895 Receipt for Burgh Officer's salary
BP/4/4/142 26 November 1895 Receipt from James Andrew, writer, Ayr for work undertaken for Prestwick Freemen
BP/4/6/233 2 October 1896 - 23 Account to the Burgh of Prestwick from R D November 1897 Wallace, solicitor, Ayr - Board of Trade enquiry and general business
BP/4/6/219 9 December 1896 - Account of business - the Magistrates and 5 January 1897 Freemen of Prestwick from R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/6/209 10 December 1896 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/215 26 January 1897 Receipt from Wallace Allan, Ayr for keeping Prestwick steeple clock in order
BP/4/6/217 11 March 1897 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/6/218 12 March 1897 Receipt for payment of proportion of minister's stipend - Reverend D A Reid
BP/4/6/216 17 April 1897 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/221 2 June 1897 Receipt from Hugh Peebles, Palermo, Prestwick for attending to the steeple bell
BP/4/6/220 10 June 1897 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/230 15 June 1897 Receipt from A G Semple, ironmonger, High Street, Ayr
BP/4/6/223 16 June 1897 Receipt from Archibald Dunlop for repair work done
BP/4/6/225 21 June 1897 Receipt from James Stevenson and Son, Glasgow for purchase of a 3 yard Scotch Standard flag and a 3 yard Navy Jack flag
BP/4/6/222 24 June 1897 Receipt for payment of premium of fire policy to Scottish Union of National Insurance Company
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BP/4/6/224 28 June 1897 Receipt from Robert Guthrie for wood and coals for bonfire
BP/4/6/226 3 July 1897 Receipt from John L Campbell, plumber and tinsmith, Darling Place, Prestwick for fitting up water closet
BP/4/6/94 August 1897 Letter to the Magistrates of Prestwick, signed by nine men wanting to form a musical band and asking for the use of the musical instruments which had been used by a former band
BP/4/6/228 27 September 1897 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/6/234 7 October 189[ ] - [ Account to the Burgh of Prestwick from R D ] November 1897 Wallace, solicitor, Ayr - commutation of casualties
BP/4/6/227 13 October 1897 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/229 4 November 1897 Receipt from J W Allan, house painter and decorator, Glasgow and Ashton Cottage, Prestwick for work done and material supplied
BP/4/6/235 11 November 1897 Receipt from John Gray, Maryfield, Prestwick for payment of treasurer's salary
BP/4/6/232 17 November 1897 Account to the Burgh of Prestwick from R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr - solicitors salary
BP/4/6/231 23 November 1897 Receipt from William McEwan for payment of officer's salary
BP/4/6/210 1897 Receipt for payment of land tax
BP/4/6/211 1897 Receipt for payment of property and income tax
BP/4/6/212 1897 Receipt for payment of county rates
BP/4/6/213 1897 Receipt for payment of assessments - owner's proportion
BP/4/6/214 1897 Receipt for payment of assessments - tenant's proportion
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BP/4/5/7 16 November 1898 - Typewritten account of business - the Burgh of 14 November 1899 Prestwick to R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/5/27 10 December 1898 Receipt for county assessment 1898 - 1899 (occupier rates)
BP/4/5/28 10 December 1898 Receipt for county assessment 1898 - 1899 (owners and occupiers rates)
BP/4/6/389 10 December 1898 Receipt for payment of poor and school rates
BP/4/5/1 13 December 1898 Receipt for land tax
BP/4/5/23 13 December 1898 Receipt for property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/5/24 13 December 1898 Receipt for property and income tax and inhabited house duties (this item gives greater detail than item BP/4/5/23)
BP/4/5/25 13 December 1898 Receipt for property and income tax and inhabited house duties
BP/4/5/26 27 December 1898 Receipt from Alex Ferguson, Ayr for printing circulars - election of magistrates dinner
BP/4/5/22 10 January 1899 Receipt from Wallace Allan, Ayr for keeping the steeple clock in repair
BP/4/5/17 16 March 1899 Receipt from Gavin Martin, Prestwick for fitting new spring on the clock hammer
BP/4/5/18 21 March 1899 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company for supplying gas for council house
BP/4/5/20 March 1899 Receipt from Reverend D A Reid for share of stipend for crop year 1898
BP/4/5/21 15 April 1899 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/19 10 June 1899 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/16 24 June 1899 Receipt from Scottish Union and National Insurance Company for renewal of fire policy
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BP/4/5/15 31 August 1899 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/5/14 20 September 1899 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles on Prestwick Freedoms
BP/4/5/13 6 October 1899 Receipt from W J Allan, Leith for making 1 gold frame 24 x 20 for Bailie Manson
BP/4/7/47 6 October 1899 Receipt from W J Allan, Leith for two gold frames
BP/4/5/8 31 October 1899 Typewritten statement of accounts between R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr and the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/7/58 1 November 1899 - Account of business - Burgh of Prestwick to R D 31 October 1900 Wallace, solicitor, Ayr (Burgh account)
BP/4/5/12 2 November 1899 Receipt from James Gibson, Prestwick for overhauling and changing windows upstairs in the Burgh Hall
BP/4/5/11 11 November 1899 Receipt for Burgh Officer's salary
BP/4/5/29 11 November 1899 Receipt from the treasurer for overpayment by Freemen last year
BP/4/5/10 14 November 1899 Receipt for clerk's salary
BP/4/5/9 17 November 1899 Receipt for postage and stationery
BP/4/5/6 17 November 1899 Receipt for treasurer's salary
BP/4/7/41 12 December 1899 Receipt for feu duties
BP/4/7/43 12 December 1899 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for the Burgh of Prestwick for the year 1899 - 1900
BP/4/5/30 21 December 1899 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/40 22 December 1899 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/141 2 January 1900 Receipt from Ferguson and Company, Ayr to Reverend Mr Reid, Monkton for printing church schedules and financial statements
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BP/4/7/48 12 January 1900 Receipt from Wallace Allan for keeping the steeple clock in repair
BP/4/7/132 2 February 1900 Receipt for fire insurance premium
BP/4/7/50 24 February 1900 Receipt from Reverend D A Reid for stipend for crop year 1899
BP/4/7/49 6 March 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/134 6 March 1900 Receipt from Church of Scotland Offices, Edinburgh for 1899 contribution from Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/7/51 9 March 1900 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/7/135 20 March 1900 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company for gas for the parish church, Prestwick
BP/4/7/136 20 March 1900 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company for gas for the new Prestwick school house
BP/4/7/138 24 March 1900 Receipt from Religious Tract and Book Society of Scotland for books for Sunday School
BP/4/7/133 26 March 1900 Receipt from Stephen and Pollock, Ayr to account for bible class library addressed to Reverend Mr Reid
BP/4/7/29 April 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/139 4 April 1900 Receipt from the clerk to the Presbytery of Ayr to the Kirk Treasurer of the Parish of Monkton
BP/4/7/140 4 April 1900 Receipt from Synod of Glasgow and Ayr to Monkton Parish Church for synod expenses for 1899
BP/4/7/137 5 April 1900 Receipt from Monkton and Prestwick School Board for consumption of gas by Prestwick Sunday School
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BP/4/7/101 23 April 1900 Receipt from W J Allan, Leith for a gold picture frame
BP/4/7/177 April and December Receipt from the Religious Tract and Book Society 1900 of Scotland for books and magazines
BP/4/7/178 April and December Receipt from the Religious Tract and Book Society 1900 of Scotland for books and magazines
BP/4/7/142 2 May 1900 Receipt from Alfred Hart for quarterly salary
BP/4/7/155 11 May 1900 Receipt from Jean McKean for 10/- for cleaning Monkton Sunday School for half a year
BP/4/7/143 15 May 1900 Receipt from Miss Martin for half year salary
BP/4/7/143A 15 May 1900 Receipt from Ayr County Hospital for donation from Monkton and Prestwick Parish Church
BP/4/7/149 15 May 1900 Receipt from Jessie McCormick, annual salary of £1 for cleaning and firing the Prestwick Sunday School
BP/4/7/144 22 May 1900 Receipt from Ayr County Hospital for donation from Monkton and Prestwick Parish Church
BP/4/7/145 28 May 1900 Receipt from Thomas Andrew for salary due as organ blower in the parish church
BP/4/7/146 28 May 1900 Receipt from John Andrew, Church Officer for half year salary
BP/4/7/147 28 May 1900 Receipt from John Andrew for load of coal nuts for furnace at church from Mossblown Pit
BP/4/7/173 21/23 June 1900 Receipts from W and R Holmes, Glasgow to the Reverend D A Reid, Monkton for books. 3 items
BP/4/7/52 24 June 1900 Receipt for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/7/94 26 June 1900 - Account of business - the Burgh of Prestwick to R 26 November 1901 D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr regarding Stevenson's case concerning a road
BP/4/7/148 June 1900 Receipts for Sabbath School trip to Auchincruive
BP/4/7/148A June 1900 Receipts for Sunday School picnic
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BP/4/7/39 2 July 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/150 5 July 1900 Letter and formal receipt from the Church of Scotland Offices, Edinburgh for contribution to Indian Famine Fund from Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/7/151 6 July 1900 Receipt from John Gray, for salary as Session Clerk from Monkton and Prestwick Kirk Session
BP/4/7/54 10 July 1900 Receipt from Alexander Ferguson, High Street, Ayr for 300 post cards - quarterly meetings
BP/4/7/152 11 July 1900 Receipt from A J Hart for salary and choir picnic
BP/4/7/153 13 July 1900 Receipt from Robert Miller, Prestwick to Reverend Mr Reid for printing small labels for books
BP/4/7/154 27 July 1900 Receipt from John Andrew for cutting grass in Monkton kirkyard
BP/4/7/158 1 August 1900 Receipt from Ferguson and Company, publishers to Reverend Mr Reid, Monkton
BP/4/7/56 4 August 1900 Receipt from James Lockhart, Prestwick for repairing gas pipe, roof, phones and laying drain
BP/4/7/156 10 August 1900 Receipt from John Andrew for 20/- for cutting grass in Prestwick kirkyard
BP/4/7/157 25 August 1900 Receipt from Alexander Miller, joiner and glazier for repairs on the new Prestwick school addressed to Kirk Session
BP/4/7/53 September 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/55 13 September 1900 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for catching moles
BP/4/7/159 26 September 1900 Receipt from the Religious Tract and Book Society of Scotland for Sunday School books
BP/4/7/160 5 October 1900 Receipt from Alfred T Hart for salary
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BP/4/7/161 6 October 1900 Receipt from John Cunningham, builder for repairing boundary wall at graveyard
BP/4/7/38 12 October 1900 Receipt from Alexander Ferguson, High Street, Ayr for post cards for election of chancellor
BP/4/7/59 13 October 1900 Receipt from Hugh Peebles and Sons, Prestwick for new locks and keys
BP/4/7/163 21 October 1900 List of amounts paid to the poor in Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/7/162 25 October 1900 Receipt from the Religious Tract and Book Society of Scotland for Sunday School books
BP/4/7/60 12 November 1900 Receipt for postage and stationery
BP/4/7/63 12 November 1900 Receipt for treasurer's salary
BP/4/7/89 12 November 1900 Receipt from J W Allan, Prestwick for painting, etc.
BP/4/7/104 12 November 1900 Receipt from William McEwan, Burgh Officer for payment of salary
BP/4/7/164 12 November 1900 Receipt from Elizabeth Martin for half year salary for cleaning the church
BP/4/7/165 12 November 1900 Receipt from J W Allan, Glasgow for painting outside door of Monkton Church
BP/4/7/57 14 November 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/166 17 November 1900 Receipt from Glasgow Eye Infirmary for annual subscription from Monkton and Prestwick Kirk Session
BP/4/7/169 20 October 1900 Receipt from Religious Tract and Book Society of Scotland for books for Sunday School
BP/4/7/61 23 November 1900 Receipt from Robert Auld, Prestwick for suit for Burgh Officer
BP/4/7/62 23 November 1900 Receipt from James Gibson, Prestwick for repairing stair rail and windows at Burgh Hall
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BP/4/7/167 27 November 1900 Receipt from General Assembly Church of Scotland for contribution from Kirk Session of Monkton to the General Committee of the Church
BP/4/7/170 27 November 1900 Receipt from John Andrew for salary as Church Officer and bell ringer
BP/4/7/171 27 November 1900 Receipt from John Andrew, Church Officer for coals plus carriage and carting also for bottle of vitrol and mixing and putting same on walks
BP/4/7/168 28 November 1900 Receipt from Thomas Andrew for salary as bellows blower of parish church organ
BP/4/7/1 December 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/34 4 December 1900 Receipt from County Buildings for recovery of money due for providing frontage of vacant ground on the road to Caerlaverock
BP/4/7/90 11 December 1900 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1900 - 1901
BP/4/7/92 11 December 1900 Receipt for payment of land tax
BP/4/7/99 11 December 1900 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1900 - 1901
BP/4/7/103 11 December 1900 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1900 - 1901
BP/4/7/172 14 December 1900 Receipt from James Lockhart, plumber for church repairs
BP/4/7/174 17 December 1900 Receipt from T B Hutchison for repairs to church
BP/4/7/175 18 December 1900 Receipt from Church of Scotland Committee on Temperance for contribution from Monkton and Prestwick Kirk Session
BP/4/7/185 23 August 1900 Receipt from Church of Scotland Office, Edinburgh to Monkton and Prestwick for contribution
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BP/4/7/186 23 August 1900 Receipt from Church of Scotland Office, Edinburgh to Monkton and Prestwick for contribution
BP/4/7/35 24 December 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/176 25 December 1900 Receipt to Reverend D A Reid for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/7/108 26 December 1900 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/184 26 December 1900 Receipt from Church of Scotland Office, Edinburgh to Monkton and Prestwick for contribution
BP/4/7/179 27 December 1900 Receipt from M Miller for cleaning and firing new Prestwick Sunday School
BP/4/7/180 31 December 1900 Receipt from R M McKean for cleaning Monkton Sabbath School
BP/4/7/182 31 December 1900 Receipt from Alfred T Hart for salary
BP/4/7/183 31 December 1900 Receipt from G Gardiner, bakers for christmas treat (300 bags and 300 oranges)
BP/4/7/42 1900 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1899 - 1900
BP/4/7/44 1900 Receipt for payment of land tax for period 1899 - 1900
BP/4/7/45 1900 Receipt for payment of Ayrshire County assessments for period 1899 - 1900
BP/4/7/46 1900 Receipt for payment of poor and school rates for period 1899 - 1900
BP/4/7/181 6 January 1901 Receipt from the Committee of Management of Monkton Hall for use of hall for Sunday evening services
BP/4/7/98 15 January 1901 Receipt from Wallace Allan, Ayr for care of steeple clock
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BP/4/7/97 4 February - Account of business - the Burgh of Prestwick to R 26 November 1901 D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr. General account
BP/4/7/102 20 February 1901 Receipt from Reverend D A Reid for payment of stipend for crop year 1900
BP/4/8/19 19 March 1901 Draft Disposition by Robert Angus Esquire, in favor of the County Council of the County of Ayr. Land for addition to Prestwick Reservoir
BP/4/7/100 27 March 1901 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company to supply of gas to the council house 'up stairs'
BP/4/7/26 11 May 1901 - Account of business - the Burgh of Prestwick to R 21 February 1902 D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr. Principality claim
BP/4/7/28 June 1901 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/8/18 27 June 1901 Copy Dispositions by James Stirling Esquire, in favor of the County Council of the County of Ayr. Land for addition to Reservoir at Prestwick
BP/4/5/138 30 August 1901 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/96 9 September 1901 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for killing moles
BP/4/6/110 15 October 1901 Receipt from Alexander Ferguson, High Street, Ayr for printing
BP/4/7/25 1 November 1901 - Account current between the Burgh of Prestwick 31 October 1902 and R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/7/93 8 November 1901 - Account of business - the Burgh of Prestwick to R 20 October 1902 D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/7/36 11 November 1901 Receipt from A McCormick, Burgh Officer for salary
BP/4/7/33 15 November 1901 Receipt for payment of treasurer's salary
BP/4/7/32 21 November 1901 Covering letter from R D Wallace, solicitor regarding Burgh accounts
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BP/4/7/6 25 November 1901 Receipt for payment of 40 years arrears of feu duty due to His Royal Highness The Prince and Steward of Scotland on the Infield and Outfield Lands
BP/4/7/30 26 November 1901 Account and outlays, R D Wallace, solicitor, to Prestwick Burgh
BP/4/7/95 November 1901 Account of business - the Burgh of Prestwick to R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr for salary for year
BP/4/7/9 December 1901 Receipt from Wallace Allan, Newmarket Street, Ayr for attention to Prestwick steeple clock
BP/4/7/27 1901 Receipt for poor, school and registration of births and rates for period 1900 - 1901
BP/4/7/2 1902 Receipt for payment of land tax for period 1901 - 1902
BP/4/7/3 1902 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1901 - 1902
BP/4/7/4 1902 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1901 - 1902
BP/4/7/5 1902 Receipt for payment of property and income tax for period 1901 - 1902
BP/4/7/7 1902 Receipt for Ayrshire County assessment for period 1901 - 1902
BP/4/7/8 1902 Receipt for poor and school rates for period 1901 - 1902
BP/4/7/11 17 January 1902 Receipt for coals to the poor
BP/4/7/12 6 March 1902 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company
BP/4/7/10 March 1902 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/13 2 May 1902 Receipt from John Campbell, plumber, Prestwick for cleaning choked drain
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BP/4/7/107 14 May 1902 - Account of business - the Freemen of Prestwick to 24 November 1903 R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/7/21 15 May 1902 Receipt from John Tweedley, Burgh Officer for salary
BP/4/7/15 20 June 1902 Receipt for ten pound subscription to the fund for coronation celebrations
BP/4/7/16 24 June 1902 Receipt for fire insurance premium
BP/4/7/14 June 1902 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/17 August 1902 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunch and drinks
BP/4/7/124 16 August - Business account - R D Wallace Esquire, solicitor, 17 October 1902 Ayr to Messrs Kinmont and Maxwell, writers signet, Edinburgh regarding Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/7/18 17 September 1902 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for killing moles
BP/4/7/20 October 1902 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/19 3 November 1902 Receipt from Hugh Peebles and Sons, Prestwick for repairing steeple bell
BP/4/7/22 11 November 1902 Receipt from James Knox, Burgh Officer for salary
BP/4/7/23 11 November 1902 Receipt for Burgh Treasurer's salary
BP/4/7/24 12 November 1902 Receipt for postage, paper, etc.
BP/4/7/109 4 December 1902 Receipt for balance of accounts over paid
BP/4/7/110 9 December 1902 Receipt for payment of land tax for period 1902 - 1903
BP/4/7/111 9 December 1902 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1902 - 1903 (feu duties)
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BP/4/7/112 9 December 1902 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1902 - 1903 (casualties)
BP/4/7/114 11 December 1902 Receipt for payment of poor and school rates for period 1902 - 1903
BP/4/7/115 17 January 1903 Receipt from Wallace Allan for keeping steeple clock in repair
BP/4/7/116 28 February 1903 Receipt from Reverend D A Reid for payment of stipend for crop year 1902
BP/4/7/117 7 March 1903 Receipt from Ayr and Newton Consumers' Gas Company for supply of gas
BP/4/7/118 7 April 1903 Receipt for payment of property and income tax and inhabited house duties for period 1902 - 1903
BP/4/7/106 20 April - Account of business - the Freemen of Prestwick to 24 November 1903 R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr
BP/4/7/119 18 June 1903 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/120 24 June 1903 Receipt for payment of fire insurance premium
BP/4/7/125 11 July 1903 Receipt from Holmes Ivory, Principality of Scotland. Receiver for payment of duties by the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/7/105 12 August 1903 Plan of field, lot 10 of the Prestwick Outdale lots and number 34 of the Ordnance Survey
BP/4/7/121 25 August 1903 Receipt from James Steel, Red Lion Hotel, for lunches and drinks
BP/4/7/122 21 September 1903 Receipt from Adam Dodd, Tarbolton for killing moles
BP/4/7/126 November 1903 Account from James Muirhead, writer, Glasgow to the Town Council of Prestwick
BP/4/7/130 6 November 1903 Receipt from J and H V Eaglesham, architects and civil engineers, Ayr for surveying land for Prestwick Freemen
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BP/4/7/128 11 November 1903 Receipt from James Knox, officer's salary for ringing the steeple bell
BP/4/7/129 23 November 1903 Receipt for treasurer's salary
BP/4/7/131 23 November 1903 Receipt for postage and stamps
BP/4/7/127 24 November 1903 Receipted business account from R D Wallace, solicitor, Ayr to the Freemen of Prestwick
BP/4/7/123 24 November 1903 Note of accounts paid by Mr R D Wallace on behalf of Prestwick Freemen for the period 1902 - 1903
BP/4/7/113 1903 Receipt for payment of Ayrshire County assessments for period 1902 - 1903
BP/4/8/23 1910 Petition by the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick for extension of drainage district; copy report by John M Hogg regarding the extension of drainage district; copy report respecting value of subjects and c. comprised in proposed extension of Drainage District within the Burgh of Prestwick
BP/4/8/28 June and July 1910 Copies of Minutes of Monthly Meetings of Prestwick Town Council relating to Burgh of Prestwick extension of Drainage District with handwritten annotations
BP/4/8/20 8 January 1911 Memorandum for Opinion of Counsel regarding Rights of Parties in Prestwick Reservoir
BP/4/8/26 31 January 1911 Copy Interlocutor relating to Burgh of Prestwick extension of Drainage District
BP/4/8/24 7 February 1911 Copy Proof in Petition by the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick for extension of Drainage District
BP/4/8/27 7 and 23 February Copy Interlocutor relating to Burgh of Prestwick 1911 extension of Drainage District
BP/4/8/25 2 May 1911 Extract Decree in Application by the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick for extension of Drainage District
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BP/4/8/22 1 October 1911 Report on the proposals for roads and drainage in connection with plans etc. of workmen's cottages submitted by Messrs William Baird and Company
BP/4/8/21 1911 Copy of Proposed Minute of Agreement between Robert Angus Esquire, of Ladykirk and the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick relating to Raith Reservoir
BP/4/8/29 11 February 1913 Notes of Evidence by John Eaglesham, chartered surveyor, Ayr relating to the Burgh of Prestwick extension of Drainage District
BP/4/8/30 22 May 1913 Extract Decree in Application by the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick for extension of Prestwick Special Drainage District
BP/4/8/31 22 May 1913 Copy Interlocutor relating to Burgh of Prestwick Drainage District
BP/4/8/11 December 1917 Memorandum for Counsel for the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick in opposition to the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company's Provisional Order
BP/4/8/15 20 December 1917 Plan showing Glasgow and South Western Railway lines running through land between Prestwick and Newton-on-Ayr
BP/4/8/12 1918 Precognition - Opposition by the Burgh of Prestwick of the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company Order
BP/4/8/13 1918 Clause to be inserted in the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company Order for the protection of Burgh of Prestwick as drafted by Town Clerk of Prestwick
BP/4/8/14 1918 Adjusted clause submitted by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company for inclusion in their Order
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BP/4/8/9 12 March 1923 Form of Tender from McKean and Renwick referred to in the Agreement reference number BP/4/8/8 for pipe laying in Main Street, Ayr Road, Grangemuir Road, Marina Road and Allanvale Road, Prestwick
BP/4/8/6 13 March 1923 Agreement between the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick and the Stanton Iron Works Company Limited. 144 tons of cast iron pipes for distribution mains
BP/4/8/7 13 March 1923 Specification and Tender referred to in the Agreement reference number BP/4/8/6 for supply of cast iron pipes. Contractor - Stanton Iron Works Company Limited
BP/4/8/8 3 and 10 April 1923 Agreement between the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick and Messrs McKean and Renwick for pipe laying in Main Street, Ayr Road, Grangemuir Road, Marina Road and Allanvale Road, Prestwick
BP/4/8/1 23 July 1930 Copy Memorial for the Opinion of Counsel for: 1. The Irvine and District Water Board 2. The Corporation of Kilmarnock 3. The Burghs of Ayr, Prestwick and Others. Relating to the Ayr County Water Order 1930 from James Campbell and Company, solicitors, Saltcoats
BP/4/8/2 1934 Memo for preparation of petition against for the Burgh of Prestwick in connection with Ayr County Water Order
BP/4/8/10 April 1934 Papers relating to Main Drainage: Public sewer from Glenburn Road to St Quivox Road and Adamton Road, Prestwick. Copy notice sent to proprietors and tenants; registered receipts and list; bill. 3 items
BP/4/8/3 14 December 1934 Precognition of Francis Pritty, Esquire, Burgh and Water Engineer, Prestwick relating to Ayr County Water Order
BP/4/8/4 17 January 1935 Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Prestwick against the Ayr County Water Board (draft) Provisional Order
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BP/4/8/5 23 January 1935 Letter from John Kennedy and Company, Parliamentary Agents, London to William Shaw Esquire, Town Clerk, Prestwick regarding the Ayr County Water Order
BP/4/7/91 29 January 1954 Receipted account from Messrs Macrae, Flett and Rennie, writers signet, Edinburgh in connection with the memorial submitted for the opinion of counsel
BP/4/7/37 24 -28 May 1954 2 applications for the redemption of land tax for A G B Cairncross, Esquire. Receipt for redemption of land tax for A G B Cairncross Esquire. 3 items
BP/4/8/32 August 1970 - Specification and tender referred to in the October 1972 Agreement reference number BP/4/8/6 for supply of cast iron pipes. Contractor - Stanton Iron Works Company Limited
BP/4/2/243 179[ ] Printed form addressed in handwriting on the reverse 'post office correspondence' concerning the stipend for Mr Andrew Mitchell and refers to letters of horning
BP/4/3/211 5 February 18[ ] Complaint of James McCambley against James Hunter, agent and his confession
BP/4/6/6 1 June 18[ ] Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion, Prestwick for lunches and drinks
BP/4/6/7 17 August 187[ ] Receipt from William Hunter, Red Lion, Prestwick for lunches and drinks
BP/4/1/10 No date Discharge by James Cona, Minister at Monkton
BP/4/1/12 No date Witnessed document
BP/4/1/21 No date Note of feu payments
BP/4/1/22 No date Bill for claret wine and sugar
BP/4/1/23 No date Specification for work to be carried out round the church
BP/4/1/24 No date Pencil sketch plan showing church pew seat allocation
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BP/4/1/25 4 October Bailie Hunters dinner and drink bill
BP/4/1/26 No date Statement showing each Heritors assessment and amount of sitting and numbers falling to each (list of 117 names)
BP/4/1/27 No date Pencil sketch plan showing church pew seat allocation of church balcony
BP/4/1/28 No date Note of funeral expenses of [ ] Cunningham
BP/4/1/29 No date Allocations relating to Outdale and Indale
BP/4/1/30 19th century Petition to the Right Honourable Viscount Canning, Postmaster General, London requesting a post office for Prestwick, after introduction of the Penny Post
BP/4/2/38 No date Account of money laid out by Charles Dalrymple of Orangefield for the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/75 No date Copy of notice to the people of Prestwick concerning sea wreck and ware. On the reverse are accounts dated 6 March 1768
BP/4/2/78 No date Note of monies uplifted by John Cunningham, younger in Prestwick and John Gullrie, younger in Prestwick
BP/4/2/81 No date Minute note of meeting to consider the petition and to nominate a committee to judge as they 'feel cause'
BP/4/2/83 No date Note concerning Agnes Hutchison, refers to a count of fifteen Cors
BP/4/2/89 No date Treasurers account
BP/4/2/97 No date Account of feus due to the town of Prestwick
BP/4/2/108 No date Torn off part of letter to a lawyer
BP/4/2/161 No date Draft minutes of meeting held after Alexander Guthrie, John Cunningham, James Hunter and John Guthrie had inspected the common or pasturage lands of the Burgh
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BP/4/2/172 No date Calculations
BP/4/2/202 No date Receipt from Robert Reid for clearing the drains on Sanquhar Meadow
BP/4/2/210 No date Note recording an amount of money against Prestwick for the kirk, and a letter recording an amount against Prestwick for the manse and offices. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/219 No date Receipt from John Wharry for going to Ayr, Fullarton and Monkton. Calculations on reverse
BP/4/2/228 No date Letter from William Kerr to Mr Smith, Treasurer for Prestwick Burgh requesting payment for expenses
BP/4/2/229 No date Estimate by Hugh Wilson to repair Prestwick Kirk
BP/4/2/232 No date Estimate from George Paton, Whitletts Toll and William Borland, Prestwick to repair Prestwick Kirk
BP/4/2/245 No date Inventory of the papers respecting the union of the parishes of Monkton and Prestwick
BP/4/3/19 No date List of unemployed weavers in Prestwick. 119 unemployed and 78 partially employed
BP/4/3/23 No date Constitution of a society regarding an instrumental band with some members supplying their own instruments and others giving security for the society's instruments
BP/4/3/34 No date Journal of number 3 bore in the town lands of Irvine for William Bairn Esquire and Company
BP/4/3/38 No date Note recording history of the feuing of Bellrock saltpans and quarry between 1807 - 1840
BP/4/3/39 No date Letter cover with seal, addressed to Prestwick Coal on one side and David Campbell, Mountha[milton] on the other
BP/4/3/41 No date List of 70 male names with breakdown of their occupations
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BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP/4/3/42 No date List of names of weavers with statistical breakdown
BP/4/3/42A No date Schedule showing the numbers of persons employed and unemployed in weavers, winders and harvest work
BP/4/3/44 No date Copy of letter giving details of the plight of the Prestwick weavers, the help given by Oswald of Auchincruive, and request for money from an unspecified subscription
BP/4/3/46 No date Minutes of meeting of the Heritors of the parish at which subscriptions were pledged for the purchase of oatmeal to be distributed to distressed weavers according to their necessity. Reverse gives breakdown of employment of 291 people
BP/4/3/47 No date Details of money distributed as relief to the weavers by the Edinburgh Committee
BP/4/3/49 No date List of 47 names
BP/4/3/50 No date Minute of meeting regarding Mr Taylor's Trustees propositions for giving up the coal lease
BP/4/3/52 No date Depositions of persons connected with acts of vandalism near Bentfield on Sabbath days
BP/4/3/72 No date Specification for painting Monkton Church. Signed by Neil, Macintosh and Harvey to Bailie Smith
BP/4/3/102 No date Empty envelope addressed to Mr Robert Manson, Prestwick
BP/4/3/203 No date Note from Duncan McLellan, being still unable to work
BP/4/3/207 No date Memorandum regarding William Joyce, wandering tinker
BP/4/4/2 No date Plea to William Smith, Bailie by Nelly Smith to release William and she will pay the fine tomorrow evening
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BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP/4/4/24 No date Empty envelope headed post office correspondence and addressed to William Smith Esquire, Senior Magistrate, Prestwick
BP/4/4/47 No date Queries respecting the renunciation of the quarry lease
BP/4/4/58 No date Complaint made by Mrs Bodden against the children of Mrs William Campbell for throwing stones and causing death of her calf. Two statements made by the boys declared they could not write and these were signed by William Smith, Bailie. Fourteen year old William McLellan signed his own deposition
BP/4/4/66 No date Agreement to renounce and give up lease of the 'freeston quarrey' granted to George Taylor Esquire "and now held by me". Promise to appoint Mr James McDermott to survey the lands that were damaged. On the reverse are names of two men who stole the locks at Rosemount, Aitkenbrae, Hillhouse and 2 picks at Monkton Mill
BP/4/4/72 No date Minute of meeting regarding Freedom of John Dick and Margaret Wharrey his spouse. On reverse are depositions by males accused of jumping on and pushing the wooden bridge
BP/4/4/83A No date Petition to the Magistrates of Prestwick intimating concern of 6 petitioners regarding the conduct of John Adams in keeping his house open for the sale of ardent spirits
BP/4/4/106 No date Part of legal document, refers to the decreet arbital and the role of the Chancellor including the number of votes he has.
BP/4/4/119A No date Record of background and proposed changes to regulation of Freemen
BP/4/5/38 No date Empty envelope addressed to Bailie Smith
BP/4/5/68 No date Testimony of William Barr, farmer, Auchinmead, Parish of Kilwinning against a woman who defrauded him on money
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BP/4/5/72 No date Detailed account of work done on the road to Saint Evox [Quivox] and by the Powburn towards Troon. List of work teams who cut through the hills
BP/4/5/180 No date Architectural plan of an unidentified arch
BP/4/6/196 No date Receipt for payment of assessment under Cattle Diseases Prevention Act 1866 by John Gray for Prestwick Burgh
BP/4/6/254 No date Receipt from Robert Thomson for clearing drains
BP/4/6/345 No date Receipt from James M Rae, ladies and gentlemen's outfitter, glover and hosier, Newmarket Street, Ayr for new dress paid to Susan Moore
BP/4/6/433 No date Constitution of Prestwick Band signed by eight members
BP4/3 Prestwick Ploughmen's Society Records
BP/4/3/1 15 March 1826 and Constitution and minutes of Prestwick 26 February 1827 Ploughmen's Society. Includes list of members
BP/4/3/2 1826 - 1828 Constitution and minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society. Includes list of members
BP/4/3/3 14 March 1827 Results of ploughing competition
BP/4/3/4 12 March 1828 Results of ploughing competition
BP/4/3/5 11 March 1829 Results of ploughing competition
BP/4/3/6 1828 - 1830 Minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society
BP/4/3/7 1832 List of names of members of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society
BP/4/3/8 15 March 1826 Results of ploughing competition
BP/4/3/9 1831 - 1833 Minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society and results of ploughing competition 13 March 1833
BP/4/3/10 20 February 1832 Minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society with the results of ploughing competition dated 7 March 1832 on reverse
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BP/4 Town Council Correspondence
BP4/3 Prestwick Ploughmen's Society Records
BP/4/3/11 1830 - 1931 Minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society with the results of ploughing competition dated 10 March 1830 on reverse
BP/4/3/12 9 March 1831 Results of ploughing competition
BP/4/3/13 1834 - 1835 Minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society with the results of ploughing competition dated 25 February 1835
BP/4/3/14 No date List of 38 names for dinner party
BP/4/3/15 No date Minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society with a list of names and brief barely legible accounts on reverse
BP/4/3/16 13 March 1833 List of names for dinner and brief minute of the annual competition
BP/4/3/17 20 February 1836 Minutes of Prestwick Ploughmen's Society with a list of names for the dinner on the reverse
BP/4/3/18 No date Note signed by John Wharry and John Cunningham
BP/AB Associated Bodies
BP/AB/1 Monkton and Prestwick Joint Cemetery Committee
BP/AB/1/1 Accounts
BP/AB/1/1/1 1974 - 1975 Monkton and Prestwick Joint Cemetery Committee accounts for year ended 15 May 1975
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