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Gregg Families from Barr-by-Girvan Ayrshire Scotland

We gratefully acknowledge additional contributions from the following people:
Jeff Higgins NSW Australia, Keith Douglas Gregg, , Rob Luke, Gloria Cathcart Canada, Alan Cowan U.K, Joan Fisher British Columbia, Elizabeth Fisher NZ,  Pat McCabe Ontario, Canada, Janet Greig Smith U.K, and Mary Martin UK

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NAMES INCLUDE: ANDERSON, BAIRD, BALLANTYNE, BROADFOOT, COUPER, CUNNINGHAM, DICKIE, ELLIS, FISHER, FORSYTH, KELLY, GREGG, GREIG, KENNEDY, LOVE, MCADAM, MCAUGHTRIE, MCBRIDE, MCCARGOW, MCCULLOCK, MCFADZIEN, MCILWRAITH, MCMILLAN, MCMONY, MCMURRAY, MCWHIRTER, MILNE, MUIR, ROSS, ROSSE, SLOAN, TURNER and OTHERS.

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BARR: From the Ayrshire Directory, 1837, by Pigot & Co.

A small neat village, lying on the banks of the rivers Gregg and Stinchar, is distant from Girvan 8 miles, and from Ayr 24; it contains a very neat church (of which the Rev Ebenizer Bradshaw Wallace is the minister), a parochial school-house, and a subscription library. The greatest part of the parish is intersected by the river Gregg; and about a mile from the village are the ruins of the old Kirk Dominae, where there is a hiring fair for servants on the first Saturday after the 26th May. Barr parish is principally sheep pasture; its extent, twelve miles by nine. The chief landed proprietors of the entire district are the Most Noble the Marquess of Ailsa and sir James Ferguson. Post Office, James McCaa, Post master - Letters from Girvan arrive every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at half past ten, and are despatched in the afternoon of the same days at two.


SHOPKEEPERS, TRADERS etc.
Baird, William, surgeon Caldwell, John, blacksmith Ferguson, Wm, grocer & spirit dealer Fergusson, Thos, grazier, Dinmurchie Forsyth, Geo, boot and shoe maker Forsyth, Janet, vinter Forsyth, John, boot and shoe maker Gibb, Geo, shopkeeper and teacher Kennedy, John, joiner & cartwright McCaa, Jas, shopkeeper and cartwright McCraken, Robert, blacksmith McCreedy, Andrew, tailor McCubbin, George, tailor McGarvie, John, vinter McKinnan, Jno, cartwright & joiner McMurtrie, John, Innkeeper Pringle, Wm, cartwright & joiner Walker, Stephen, master of the parochial school, and librarian of the subscription library

CARRIERS.
To Ayr - William Harrison and John Thomson every Friday, and John Cowleson every alternate Tuesday.
To Glasgow - Matthew Dickie every alternate Tuesday.

 


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