MAYBOLE MORSELS
(some miscellaneous transcriptions from the archives found in Maybole Town Hall inc. the Kirkoswald Assessment Roll 1849)

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Transcribed by Gordon Killicoat
Edited by Dave Killicoat
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Statiƒtical Account of Maybole

By the Rev. Dr JAMES WRIGHT

Population.^____ In the country part of this parifh, befides those in the town, there are about 1700 examinable perfons. Within the laft 20 years, the population of the parifh has increafed by about 300 fouls. Among this numerous body of people, confifting of 2500 perfons, at and above the age of eight years, there are only three Seceders, two women and one man; and even thefe came but lately into the parifh. The return to Dr Webfter being only 2058 fouls, it follows, that the population has increafed about 1000 fince 1755, there being now about 3000 fouls in the parifh.

Poor.^____ The number of the poor in the parifh of Maybole is very confiderable, arifing partly from the great number of the inhabitants, and partly from the great influx of vagrants, paricularly from Ireland. It may be faid, that in this parifh the poor maintain the poor. Few of the principal heritors refide in the parifh; and nothing is given by them, in the way of donation, to the poor, who are maintained wholly by the collections made at the church door, upon Sunday. For that reafon, though the contributions are very liberal, confidering the fmall fortunes of the perfons by whom they are given, the poor of this parifh do not receive even one half of what they would require.

(The above extract is part of the description of the Parish of Maybole given in "The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791 - 1799", Vol. VI Ayrshire, edited by Sir John Sinclair.)