At the time of the 1841 Census, teenage Barbara Murdoch was living with her widowed father and several siblings at Rigg which it later became apparent that it was at the Fore-Rigg division of Rigg.
On 16th June 1848, Barbara was married to Quintin Clark at Rigg –
Quintin Clark in this parish* to Barbara Murdoch in the parish of New Cumnock, were regularly proclaimed in this Parish Church on Sabbath 4th and 11th June 1848 in order to marriage. They were married at Rigg, New Cumnock on Friday June 16th1848 by the Revd. Edward Hayman, Minister of the Free Church of Dalmellington & Lamloch.
*Scotland’s People: Parish of Dalmellington, Banns & Marriages
Their first child Ann Clark was born on 7th April 1849 at Upper Camlarg on the outskirts of the town of Dalmellington on the road to New Cumnock.
By the time of 1851 Census the family were living at Benbain, Dalmellington where Quintin was the shepherd, soon after a son James was born there on 14 June 1851.
By the 1861 Census three more children, Catherine, Margaret and John had been born at Dalmellington before the family moved to Friarland farm on the outskirts of Ayr, where Quintin doubled up as farm labourer and bower of cows.
At the time of the 1871 Census the family had returned to Dalmellington living at the Railway Gatehouse where their daughter Mary was born. Quintin was the railway gatekeeper in the town and by the 1881 Census their nephew Thomas Murdoch (son of Matthew Murdoch & Mary Morrison) was living at the Gatehouse and working as a railway porter.
Quintin died on 18th January 1882, and his wife Barbara moved to Meadowbank Terrace, off the Gas Brae, presumably the brae towards the Gas works. Here she lived with her son John and daughter Mary, then latterly only Mary, and passed away on 8th August 1902.
Children of James Murdoch and Ann Fleming & their Spouses
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