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Post Office Kilmarnock Directory — THE CORPORATION OF THE SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION ESTABLISHED 1837, The terms of this Society secure, as compared with other Offices, A greatly Larger Original Assurance for the same Premium, with the prospect to good lives, (for whom eajclusively the whole Profits are reserved) of eventually receiving very considerable additions, , Thus, a Policy for £1200 or £1250 can at most ages be had, from the first, for the premium charged elsewhere for £1000 only. Policies for £1000 which have shared at three Septennial Investigations have already been increased to £1400, £1600, and even to £1800. Examples of Annual Premium to secure £100 at Death (with Profits) : Age 25 30 35 40 45 50 Payable during Life £1 18 £2 16 £2 6 10 £2 14 9 £3 5 9 £4 1 7 Limited to 21 Years £2 12 6 £'A 15 4 £3 2 £3 7 5 £3 17 6 £4 12 1 Thus a person of 30 may secure £1000 at death, with Profits, for a yearly premium of £20 15s., which in the other Scottish Mutual Offices would assure £800 only. Or, if unwilling to burden himself with payments during the whole of his life, he may secure a policy for £1000, with prospect of additions from the profits, for a Premium of £27 13s 4d, limited to twenty-one payments, being nearly the same as most Offices require during the whole of life. ^" Tables of Premiums^ to cease after 7, 14, or any other number of years, may be had on application. The New Assurances of last year were £621,574. The subsisting Assurances are now upwards of Six Millions. The Annual Income of 1867 was £234,000. The Accumulated Fund, arising entirely from Premiums, was £1,365,365—all invested in undoubted securities. REPORTS, and every information, may be obtained at the Head Office^ 6 ^S'^. Andrew Square., Edinburgh^ orfrom any of the Agents. AGENTS:— „ (JAMES STEWART, Solicitor, National Bank. Kilmarnock, |g]^ixH & WALLACE, Accountants. Ayr WILLIAM FLINT, Merchant. — INSURANCE COMPANY. Instituted 1836. Empowered hy Acts of Parliament. CHIEF offices: 1 DALE STEEET, LIVEHPOOL, AND 7 CORNHILL, LONDON. SCOTTISH BOARD OFFICE : 128 INGHAM STREET, GLAiSaOW. INVESTED FUNDS, ... £3,401,005. ANNUAL INCOME EXCEEDS, £1,250,000. DIRECTORS m SCOTLAND. Chairman—JAMES REID STEWART, Esq., Glasgow. JAMES J. GRIEYE, Esq., Greenock. ROBERT F. S. STEWART, Esq., Laggart. ANDREW BUCHANAN, Esq., of Auchentorlie. SWINTON BOULT, Esq., Managing Director. resident secretaries. Glasgow—D. STEWART, Esq. Medical Referee—ROBERT SCOTT ORR, Esq., M.D. FIRE INSURANCE. Insurances can be effected with the Company on property of every description, and in all parts of the world. THE AMUAL INCOME FROM THIS BRANCH EXCEEDS £836,000. LIFE ASSURANCE. Attention is especially invited to this Company's System of GUARANTEED BONUSES, by which is secured— 1. Exemptions from Liability of Partnership under any possible circumstances. 2. BONUS ADDITIONS which are not contingent on profits, but fixed and guaranteed by the whole resources of the Company. 3. CLAIMS Paid in THIRTY DAYS after proof of Death. ANNUITIES are granted on extremely favourable terms. Prospectuses, with detailed rates, &c., will be had on application. Agents in Kilmarnock: JAMES STEWART, Solicitor, National Bank of Scotland. J. & W. THOMSON, Grain and Flour Merchants. : POST OFFICE KILMARNOCK DIRECTORY :n'o:E^ ises, ARRANGED IN TWO DIVISIONS, GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL; TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DIEECTOEY OF THE NEIGHBOUEHOOD AND SUEEOUNDING TILLAGES, -V^ITH A. MA.P OF THE TO^VIST, Edited by JAMES DICKIE, Chief Clerk, Post Office. KILMARNOCK PRINTED BY JAMES M'KIE, 2 KING STREET. mdccclxviii. PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, *20^FEg 'V % 1984 v'' PREFACE. The Publishers of the Post Office Kilmarnock Directory beg to apologise to their Subscribers, and the pubhc generally, for the consider- able delay which has taken place in its pubKcation. Regretting this delay, they beg to indulge the hope that the result of their labours will meet the want so long felt in Kilmarnock for a work of the kind, and may thus obtain the approval of their Subscribers and the commercial community of the town and neighbourhood. The Pubhshers have to express their thanks to all who have kindly furnished them with information. They are under special obligations to Mr. James Rose, Teacher, for his Historical Sketch of the Town; and to Mr. Charles Reid, Surveyor, for his valuable assistance in producing the Map. Post Office, Kilmarnock, 11 th July, 1868, Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/postofficekilmar1868kilm MIES RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN THEIR PROPER PLACES. Adams & Co., umbrella and millinery establishment, 34 King street. Aird, William, grocer and spirit dealer, 5 Low Glencairn street. Andrew, John, joiner and general jobber, 8 West Langlands street. Armour, James, secretary, amalgamated engineers, Dean street. Armour, Robert, letterpress printer, 17 Portland street. Arnot, Robert, salesman, Co-operative Store, 47 Portland street. Bruce, Mrs. James, mangier, Union street. Burgess, Wm., agent of the Ayrshire Temperance Union, Mill Lane Manse. Calderwood, Robert, general merchant, 14 Waterloo street. Carswell, Mrs., spirit merchant, 35 Portland street. Churcher, A., Supervisor, Inland Revenue, instead of Robert Young. See page 125. Craig, James, grocer, 42 King street. Dickie, James, & Co,, boot and shoemakers, 90 Portland street. Elder, Wm., plasterer, removed to 29 Waterside street. Faulds, Orr & Co., Scotch bonnet manufacturers, High street. Faulds, James (of Faulds, Orr & Co.), house, 30 Boyd street. Ferguson, Wm., Tourville Cottage, Dundonald road. Findlay, Andrew, currier, removed to Ladeside. Findlay, Hugh, manager, Hillhead Colhery. FuUerton, James, spirit dealer, removed to 11 Cheapside street. Gilmour, Robert, spirit merchant, Kadikoi Place. Green, Wilham, town missionary, removed to Witch road. " Henry, Hugh, & Co., printers and pubhshers, " Kilmarnock Advertiser office, Duke street. Hood, John, flesher, 11 Queen street. Inglis, John, carter, removed to Nelson street. Inghs, Wm., boot and shoe merchant, St. Marnock's street. Kirkwood, Thomas, cowfeeder, Waterside street. Lauder, John, spirit merchant, 2 North Hamilton street. Little, Peter, fruiterer, Duke street. Logan, Jas., agent for City of Glasgow Friendly Society, 37 Waterside st. VI NAMES TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN THEIR PROPER PLACES. Loudoun, George, confectioner, removed to 6 Green street. Macglashan, Chas., accountant & commission agent; office, St. Marnock's street ; house, Dundonald road. Menzies, James, Portland terrace. Millar, Jasper, junr., boot and shoe maker, 21 Bentinck street. Mitchell, Mrs. James, mangier, Langlands street. Muir, John, pubhc carrier, 11 Titchfield street. M-Donald, Donald, & Co., cabinetmakers, College wynd. M'Gary, John, tailor and clothier, removed to 1 Cheapside street. M*Ilroy, Bernard, spirit merchant, 9 Strand street. M'Intyre, James, toy merchant, 71 King street. M'Kean, J., pattern designer. Green street. M'Kinlay, Walter, spirit merchant, 81 Titchfield street. M'Lenaghan, Rev. Andrew T., minister. Original Seceders ; house, 2 St. ]\larnock's place. M'Manus, Charles, spirit merchant, 57 Fore street. Neil, John, smith, Dunlop street; house, 27 Croft street. Ogilvy, Mrs. Wm., tailoress, 19 Croft street. Osborne, James, junr., draper, 10 West George street. Paterson, Catherine, dressmaker, removed to 47 King street. Reid, John, baker, Kadikoi place. Reid, Mrs. James, mangier, 25 Dean street. Shanks, David, ham curer, Burnside, off West Shaw street. Smith, D., Treesbanks House, Riccarton. Stevenson, James, teacher, removed to Dundonald road. Syme, Rev. Joseph, minister, Wesleyan Methodists; house, Hill street. Tanner, John, jobbing smith, 18 Clerk's lane. Templeton, George (of J, Templeton & Son), house, 17 Portland street. Templeton, James, marble cutter, 73 Portland street; ho., 18 Park street. Welsh, Thomas, baker, 35 High street. Wilson, A., grocer and provision merchant, Titchfield street. Accountants—Carmichael, John, 24 King street. ,, Macglashan, Charles, St. Marnock's street. Cork Cutters—Turner & Ewing, Mill lane. , GENEEAL INDEX. PAGH I. Historical Sketch of the Curling Clubs, . - _ 128 Town, - _ . - 9 Exchange Company, 127 Farmers' Club, - - _ - II. General Directory, - - 19 127 Fire Brigade, - _ . _ 133 - - III. Trades' Directory, 59 * Friendly Societies, - . - 134 IV. Surrounding District Gas Company, - - _ _ 126 Directory, - - - - 75 Gentlemen's Residences, 139 Beansburn and Neighbourhood, 75 Glasgow and S.-W. Railway, 132 Craigie and Neighbourhood, - 75 Horticultural and Floricultural Crosshouse, Perceton Row, and Society, - - - _ _ 128 Neighbourhood, - - - 76 Justices of the Peace, - - - 123 Dundonald and Neighbourhood, 77 Kilmarnock Library, - - - 126 Fenwick and Neighbourhood, - 77 Ladies' Association for the advance- Gatehead and Neighbourhood, - 79 ment of Female Education in Galston and Neighbourhood, - 79 India, - _ _ _ _ 129 Hurlford and Neighbourhood, - 82 Literary Society, _ - - - 132 Kilmaurs and Neighbourhood, - 83 Magistrates and Town Council, - 122 Newmilns and Neighbourhood, - 84 Market Days, &c., - - - 135 Kiccarton and Neighbourhood, - 87 Masonic Lodges, - - - - 131 Stewarton and Neighbourhood, - 88 Newspaper, - - . _ 133 Symington and Neighbourhood, 92 Notaries Public, - - - - 123 Tarbolton and Neighbourhood, - 93 Office of Inland Revenue, 125 v. List op Places in the Rural Parochial Board, - - - . 125 Post Delivery of Kilmar- Philharmonic Society, - 128 nock, showing how Letters Philosophical Institution, 126 Places
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