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Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 57 - Parish of Stevenston, OS1/3/57

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[Page] 57
Parish of Stevenston -- County of Ayr


There was a small village of antiquity, called
Piper heugh, of which there are some remains in the
wood at Ardeer. The inhabitants were chiefly Trump
makers: and there are some it would appear, in Stevenston of the same profession, for in the
Commissariat of Glasgow we find the record of the death, in 1627, of Agnes Glasgow, spouse to John Logane, trump
-maker in Stevenston; The trump which they manufactured at Piperheugh was the Jews' Harp; and from the name of
their residence it would appear that this little colony possessed the united accomplishments of Jubal and Tubal being not [only]
'artificers in [brass] and iron' but 'handlers of the harp', and [it is probable] of the pipe.
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] & Paterson's Hist. [History] of Ayr

Transcriber's notes

The words at the bottom of the entry are faded and some have almost disappeared. The words in square brackets are from Paterson's History of Ayr page 443, the source he was using as a reference.

Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 57 - Parish of Stevenston, OS1/3/57

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Stevenston.

Ordnance Survey - Ayr county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Ayr, which is in the south west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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