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Maybole

United Kingdom / Scotland / Maybole /

Maybole is a small town built on a sloping hillside and overlooks the Southern Uplands with a magnificent view of these rolling hills. The ancient kingdom of Carrick is the part of Ayrshire south of the River Doon. Maybole lies 44 miles southwest of Glasgow and about 5 miles east of the Firth of Clyde.
According to the 2001 census the total resident population was 4,552
Full analysis of 2001 census can be found here :-
www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/census/2001/sheet009.htm

www.maybole.org

Some history :

Maybole’s name origin is a contested issue. Maege and botl are Old English for ‘Maiden’ and ‘house’, but there are also Brythonic and Gaelic words which fit the bill. Mynydd y Pwll is Welsh for ‘mount of the pool’, and Minis na Poll translates from Scots as ‘portion of the hollow’. Maybole from the eleventh century until the Union of the Crowns was the centre, and for all practical purposes the capital, of the Earldom of Carrick. In 1371 Sir John Kennedy of Dunure founded a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This went on to become Scotland’s first collegiate church and the present town sits on this church’s land. The decline in importance of the town, since its heyday, was reflected in its modern economy and architecture. The parish at this time was 9 miles long and 5 miles wide. The town population in 1841 was 3,431, rising to 3,862 in 1851, divided across 394 houses.

Some other information :

The railway arrived in 1856, when the Glasgow and South West Company opened a line between Ayr and Maybole.

The parents of Robert Burns met and married in Maybole. William and Agnes married in Maybole on 15th December 1757 and just over a year later, on 25th January 1759, Robert was born in nearby Alloway.
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Coordinates:   55°21'15"N   4°41'0"W

Comments

  • jill murphy (guest)
    I am seeking the final resting place of Peter Murphy (hand loom weaver died in maybole 1847.I am the gr.gr.daughterJill .His son George migrated to Australia around 1863 with his wife Elizabeth Murphy nee Smith.will be returning to Maybole in 2013 hoping that someone out there may have some link with this link.
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