KYLE & CARRICK DISTRICT LIBRARIES LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION ArJ This Book is for reference only and must not be taken from this room. Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/postofficegenera189293uns I nsr ID Page. Page. >5BlBverti6cmcnts, - 181 Educational Trust Governor>i, - 25 Athletic Club, 16 Excise, 14 j^ yr Academical ^ yr Bible Society, 12 Fairs, 19 ji^yr Bums Club, •24 Golf Clubs, 15 ji^yr Cemetery, 9 Guildry of Ayr, - - . - 6- j4.yr County Club, 14 H.M. Prison, - - - - 24 ^i.yr County Hospital, 10 Harbour Trustees, - - - 6. />T Cricket Club, 16 Houses, Farms, &c., - - 199 jiyr District Road Trust, - lusiirance Offices and Agents, 19-20 - - >yr Gas Company, - - - 13 Justice of Peace Court, 7 /vr Lawn Tennis Club, - - 16 Justices of Peace, - - - 18 ia«r poet ®fHcc, - - - 27 Kirk Session, - - - - 10 Surveying Staff of G.P.O., 27 Kyle Union Poorhouse Boaid, 7 Branch Office, Ayr Docks, 27 Land Valuation (Kyle District), 9 Pillar and Wall Boxes, - 28 Lieutenancy of Ayrshire, - - 18 Parcels Post, - - - 32 Life-boat Institution, - - 14 Express Delivery, - - 41 Magisti-ates /".nd Town Council, 5 Money Orders, - - - 32 Magistrates of Newton, - - 18 Telegraph Money Oiders, - 32 Market Days, - - - - 19 - - - Postal Orders, - - 33 Masonic Lodges, . 17 Savings Bank. - - - 28 Medical Practitioners, - - 13 Rates of Postages, - - 34 Merchant Company, - - - 1^ Re-Direction, - - -34 Municipal Board of Police, - 6 Petitions to Parliament, • 35 Newspapers, - - - - 18 Newspapers, - - - 35 Newton Givs Company, - - J4 Book Post, - - - 36 Property and Income Tax, - 9 - Registration, - - - 87 Public Library, - - 25 Pattern and Sample Post, 38 Public Offices', - - 22-24 to sent Articles not be by PuBLi t Schools— Post, - - - :J8 Ayr Academy Post Office Telegraphs, - 40 Grammar School Foreign and Colonial Smith's Institution Postages, - - - 56 Lady Jane Hamilton's Sch'I t'oreign and Colonial Newton Academy Parcels Post, - 46-53 Newtonhead School Despatch «fe Delivery, - 43-45 Wallacetown School Ayr Y.M.C.A., - - - 15 Russell Street School Ayrshire Agricultural Association 7 Industrial Schools Ayrshire Herd Book United School Board, - - - ' - 11 Society, - .- • - 7 Sailors' Society, - - - - 14 Banks, 17 Sheriff and Commissary Court, 7 Bowling Clubs, - - - 16 Sheriff Officers, - ... 9 County Council, - - - 25 Solicitors before Sheriff Court, 8 Carriers, 57 Steamers, 24 Clergy, 9 Street Birectort, - 152 Coach, 57 Town and County Club, - - 14 Collector of County Rates, [- 9 - XCrabes' I>ire'ctor¥, ' - 182 - Com Exchange Company, 14 Tract Society, - - - 12 Customs, 14 Trades' House, - - . 7 Deaf and Mission, - Dumb 13 Trained Nurses for Sick, - - 12 IHrectort, - - - - -58 Note.—The Advertisements at end of the Directory are paged separately and the figures affixed to certain names refer to the advertisement pages. od J CTOR¥ fAYR. Population Parliamentary Burgh of Ayr in 24,800 Do do do 1881 20,821 Increase in Ten Years, 3 979 This Burgh, with Irvine, Campbeltown, Inverary, and Oban, Burgh. returns One Member to Parliament. Ayr is the returning MemUrfor Ayr Burghs— am^s Somervell, Esq., of Sorn. Municipal Constituency of the Burgh of Ayr, 4033, mcluding 698 Females. Inhabited Houses, 5112. Population of Ayrshire in 1891, 224,342 Do do 1881, 217,630 Increase in Ten Years, 6,712 /South Ayrshire, 14,912 Ayr, Constituency of the County of \North Ayrshire, 12,261 Member for South Ayrshire- -Hon. G. R. Vernon. Member for North Ayrshire—^o^. H. F. H. Elliot. TOWN COUNCIL OF ^YR. Pro i'o,s^—Robert Shankland. Bailies—R. D. Willock, Thomas Templeton, A. Guthrie Semple, and Wm. M'Clelland. Dean-of-Guikl—JAS. Girvin. Treasiirer—Jas. Smith. Councillors. 1st Ward. 3rd Ward. I 5th Ward. James Smith A. G. Semple A. Hunter | H D. Willock Thomas Eraser Robert Craig James Meikle W. Auld Thomas Meech Snd Ward. 4th Ward. 6th Ward. Beveridge - >s. Templeton R. Shankland R. M. Smith J. M M. Morton J. Galloway- Wm John Mercer James Girvin Wm. M'Clelland Clerk—A. G. Young. Chamberlain—Robert MacCallum. Surveyor—John Eaglesham. —— 6 DIRECTORY. Sanitary Inspector and Inspecbor of Weights and Measures R. A. Miller Pidcurator-Fiscal—C. B. Rowan Billet Master—Wm. M'Kay. Auditor Thomas Turner, Newmarket Street, Valuator of Lands and Heritages and Registrar of Voters Alexander Walker, MUNICIPAL POLICE BOARD. Commissioners—The Magistrates and Council. Clerk—A. G. Young. Treasurer and Collector — R. MacCallum. Surveyor— John Eaglesham. Procurator-Fiscal- -C. B. Rowan. Superintendent of Police—Wm. M'Kay. GUILDRY OF AYR. Dean—James Girvin. Council : Provost Shankland Ex-Bailie Graham John Galloway I Ex-Provost Ferguson John Murdoch Bailie Templeton Ex-Provost Kilpatrick John Robertson J. M. M. Morton .Steele D. D. Littlejohn Meikle Ex-Provost I James Ex-Provost Goudie J. B. Paton John Mercer I Bailie Willock Ex-Bailie Rae I John Eagesham Ex-Bailie Hill H. Wood Thomas Fraser William Paton Ex-Treasurer Wm. Auld James Smith M'Colm Wm. Smith Clerk—A. G Young. Treasurer- R. MacCallum. Officer—James Clark. TRUSTEES FOR THE HARBOUR OF AYR. Chairman Provost Shankland. Bailie Templeton Thomas Reid Ex-Provost Ferguson I Bailie M'Clelland Hugh Dufif Robert Craig I of Guild Girvin Colm Earl of Glasgow D'n Wm. M j Treasurer Smith John A. Steelt i Robert Dewar Rowan, jr. Convener Highet D. 1 Walter Bain Harbour Master— Captain Alexander Ritchie. Collector and Treasurer— J. M'Hutchon. Clerk—William Pollock. Agent for Lloyds— John A. Steele. Russian and Spanish Vice- Consul—John Dobbie, 21 Alloway St. — — DIRECTORY^ 7 Imperial Consul for Germany—J. Grant Smith, North Quay, Sweden and Norway Consul—Thomas Steele. KYLE UNION POORHOUSE BOARD. Chairman—William Kilpatrick. Secretary and Treasurer DaA^d Dougall. Governor—Wm. M'Cracken. iMatron—Mrs M'Cracken. Chaplain—Mr Wm. Grant. Medical Officer—G. M'Kerrow, M.D. JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT. Held Second Monday of every Month at Eleven o'Clock a.m. Clerk—D. W. Shaw. Depute-Clerk—P. A. Thomson. Prociirator-Fiscal—R. D. Murdoch. Bar Officer—Hugh Arthur. AYRSHIRE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. President—J. G. A. Baird, Esq. of Adamtonand Muirkirk, M.P. Vice-Presidents James Somervell, Esq., of Sorn, M.P. ; W. H. Dunlop, Esq., Doonside ; G. Colvin White, Esq. , of Stewartlea ; Alexander Cross, Esq., of Knockdon ; A. F. MacAdam, Esq., of Craigengillan ; and Captain Blair of Blair. Twenty Extra- ordinary and Twenty-four Ordinary Directors. Secretary and Treasurer—James M'Murtrie. AYRSHIRE CATTI;E HERD BOOK SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. President --The Hon. G. R. Vernon, M.P., Auchans, Kilmarnock Secretary and Treasurer—James M'Murtrie, Solicitor. ROAD TRUST, AYR DISTRICT. Treasurer—James M'Murtrie. Clerk— C. G. Shaw. Surveyor—Allan Stevenson. TRADES' HOUSE. Tradefi. Deacons. Trades. Deacons. Hammermen—W. Kerr. I Shoemakers—E. Smith. Tailors A. Cowan. — | Squaremen—Jas. C. Highet. Clerk— John T. Goudie. SHERIFF AND COMMISSARY COURT. Sheriff and Commissary— David Brand. Sheriff-Substitute and Commissary-Depute —W. A. 0. Paterson. DIRECTORY, Sheriff' and Commissary-Clerk—Robert Coudie. Depute-Clerk—Andrew Crawford. Procurator-Fiscal—Robert D. Murdoch. Macer—Hugh Arthur. The Procurators before the Sheriff Court are Practitioners also before the Commissary Court. Ordinary Courts sit every Tuesday at 11 a.m. and Thursday at 10 A.M. Debts Recovery Court sits every Thursday at 10.30 A.M. Small Debt Court sits every Thursday at 11 a.m. SOLICITORS BEFORE THE SHERIFF COURT. Dean of Faculty—Wm. Pollock, Ayr. (Those marked are * Notarie- Public also.) *Andrew, James, Ayr '^Murray, Wm., Girvan Andrew, Thomas, Ayr MacCallum, Robert, Ayr *Andrews, David, Girvan *MacCallum, J. A., Ayr I David, Maybole MacCallum, A. B., Ayr *Brown, I *Beveridge, R. M., Ayr i *M'Clymont, J. W., Ayr *Brackenridge, Arch., Cumnock M'Cubbin, Alex., Ayr I Christie, William, Irvine i M'Murtrie, James, Ayr *Douglas, John, Ayr , ''M'Cosh, J. M., Dairy D., Irvine *Dunlop, D., Ayr i *M'Jannet, W. *Dickie, James, Irvine i O'Beirne, J. H., Ayr *Dougall, D. , Ayr I Pollock, Wm., Ayr Ferguson, D., Ayr i Pollock, W. J., Ayr Ferguson, James W., Ayr i Rowan, C. B., Ayr *Goudie, R., Ayr ' Ranken, G. J., Ayr Goudie, James H., Ayr i Struthers, A. W., Ayr Goudie, John T. , Ayr I *Shaw, C. G., Ayr Gibson, James, Maybole Shaw, D. W^, Ayr j Gemmell, Alex., jun., Ayr Silver, John, Ayr I Harvey, Thomas, Mauchline Thomson, P. A., Ayr I *Kilpatrick, Wm., Ayr Vass, James, Ayr *Lockhart, J., Ayr i *Watt, J. M., Ayr *Loudon, Alex., Ayr I Wilson, Robert, Ayr *Macrorie, Young, A. G., Ayr Wm., Ayr j * Thomas, Ayr Morton, W. T., Ayr j Young, Mudoch, R. D., Ayr Secretary and Treasurer—John Lockhart. Auditor of Faculty— John Lockhart. Joint Auditors of Sheriff Court— John Lockhart and Andrew Crawford. DIRECTORY. SHERIFF COURT OFFICERS. H. Arthur William Smith John Ramsay John Shaw J. Smith W. H. Wyllie LANDS VALUATION—Kyle District. Clerk—Charles G. Shaw. Assessor—Thomas Harvey. LANDS VALUATION -Kilmarnock Burgh and County of Wigtown. B. Corke, Macneille Buildings, Ayr. COLLECTOR OF COUNTY RATES. J. M'Cosh, Soli3itor, Dairy. PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX—Kyle District. Commissioners — Colonel Hamilton of Sundrixm Col. Hay Boyd of Townend John Bell of Enterkine R. A. Oswald of Auchincruive Major-General Sir Claud Alex- James Somervell of Sorn, M.P. ander of Ballochmyle, Bart. Col. C. S. M'Alester of Duns- P. C. D. Boswell of Garallan kaig Captain R. M. Campbell of Claud Hamilton, yr., of Sun- Auchmannoch drum Sheriff David Brand and Sheriff-Substitute W A. Orr Paterson. ex- officio. Clerk—James M'Murtrie, Solicitor. Assessor—B. Corke. Inspector—F. S. Allan. Surveyor—Benjamin Corke. Collector—Joseph Tait. AYR CEMETERY. Managers— The Magistrates and Council. Treasurer—Robert MacCallum. Secretary—A. G. Young. Superintendent—Robert M Callum. CLERGY. Established, 1st Charge—Rev. United Presbyterian —Darling- T. Dykes, D.D. ton Place—R. M. Maclnnes Do.