Muirkirk Genealogy and Family History Links

GENUKI - Ayrshire	GENUKI - Muirkirk	See Also The Muir Kirk
Tracing Your Ancestors

• Alexander/Hamilton
  David Hamilton ALEXANDER and Sarah Hamilton were both raised in an orphanage in Scotland and, when they came of an age that they had to leave the orphanage, were married Janurary 25, 1856 at Parish Church of Muirkirk Scotland. In 1868 they emigrated to America.
• Ayrshire Roots
• BEGG
• Coal Mining
  information and links about coal mining around Muirkirk
• COULTHART
• CRANSTON, Ann Meggert
• CRANSTON, Alexander
• DALZEIL or DALZELL
• DOUGLAS, Gabriel - born Muirkirk 1822
• Family History Societies
  • East Ayrshire Family History Society
    formed in 1997, ESFHS provides a focus for family history research in the towns and villages now encompassed by East Ayrshire. Available publications include the CD ROM Muirkirk in Bygone Days by J.G.A. Baird
  • Troon Family History Society
    Publications available include Muirkirk Parish OPR Death & Burial Index in book form or on CD ROM as part of Ayrshire Burials Index Part 1
• GIBSON
• HAMILTON in the 1881 Census
• HUNTER, James - born 1851 Muirkirk
  (died) 1922 Boston Massachusetts USA
  Information from descendents is required. James lived in Glasgow in the 1880's his wife was Margaret Anderson b' 1846 Rayne Aberdeen family were Eizabeth, Henry, Jane, Edward, James, George.
• HUNTER, Edward
  born in Muirkirk, Edward is recorded in the 1881 Census as being employed as a Porter at the Barony Poorhourse, Barnhill near Glasgow. At that time Edward was 33 years of age and unmarried.
• IGI Batch Numbers for Muirkirk
• JOHNSTONE, William Shepherd at Netherwood
• LAMBERT, Janet, born 1834
• Lapraik
  John Lapraik was a poet, a contemporary and friend of Robert Burns, lived all his life in the vicinity of Muirkirk and is buried in the Parish Kirk graveyard.
• McCullough, Judith - born 1820
• McKersie
• PAGAN, Mary - born 1777
• PAGAN, Isobell (Tibby)
  born 1741, in the Parish of New Cumnock, where she lived until 14 years of age, Tibbie died in 1821 and is buried in the old Kirkyard at Muirkirk. Reputedly the original author or Robert Burns' "Ca' the Yowes tae the Knowes".
• PALMER - Thomas, born 1921
• ROSS - Andrew Ross, medical practicioner and botanist, born 1829
• SMITH, James
• Shaw
• SOMLAY, Mary
  born in Muirkirk, is recorded in the 1881 Census as being an inmate at the Barony Poorhourse, Barnhill near Glasgow. At that time Mary was 54 years old, unmarried and her occupation is recorded as a Shoebinder.
• SPROUL, Elizabeth
  born in Muirkirk, is recorded in the 1881 Census as being an inmate at the Barony Poorhourse, Barnhill near Glasgow. At that time Elizabeth was 55 years old, unmarried and her occupation is recorded as a Cotton Mill Worker.
• TAIT
• WYLLIE, William