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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TOWNHEAD OF GREENOCK Townhead of Greenock
Townhead of Greenock
Townhead of Greenock
Townhead
Townhead
Mr K. Smithe Factor
Mr Hugh Anderson Occupier
William Brown Esq J. P [Justice of the Peace]
Johnstons Co [County] Map
The Craigengillan Estate Map
030 A farm house out offices & farm attached occupied by Mr Hugh Anderson and the property of Col. [Colonel] Mc Cathcart of Craigengillan - Mr Anderson informs me that about 150 years ago there was a considerable village between this and Town foot Cot house. If so. all vestiges of it are now completely gone - In proof of the assertion the Ironworks in the neighbourhood at & before that period stood on the opposite bank of the Water of Ayr in Auchenleck Parish - and "Greenock Town" is shown as a village in an old estate map drawn in 1771, in the possesion of William Brown Esq of Greenockmains -

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County of Ayr -- Parish of Muirkirk

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