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Quentin McIlvane
b.Abt 1720
Facts and Events
| Name |
Quentin McIlvane |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Abt 1720 |
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| Marriage |
Abt 1753 |
to Jean Doak |
References
- In the early 1700s Gilbert, Quintin’s second son moved to Glengennet in the parish of Barr and he lived there for about 40 years. Glengennet, “popularly known as Pingarroch”, or Pinjerrock, had been a small barony in the sixteenth century and is referred to as the forty shilling land of Nether Glengennet. The land stretches from the Girvan road into Barr for about two miles eastward on the north side of the river Stinchar. The ruins of the ancient house can still be seen just north-east of the village, but the land is now farmed from an imposing Victorian farmhouse on a bluff further east. The old parish records of Barr are well and fairly legibly kept from 1690. Gilbert MacIlvean had two sons baptised, William in 1715 and Quintin in 1720. Unfortunately at that date the wife’s name is not given. According to the Kirk Session minutes, Gilbert became a deacon in 1735. Marriage records are incomplete, but in 1753 Quintin married Jean Doak. She and her twin sister Elizabeth were born in 1724 to James Doak in Auchenarrock, the next farm to Grimmet, but in Kirkmichael parish, in which kirkyard there is an old and interesting tombstone which gives Jean’s background.
Jean Doak’s grandfather, Gilbert, was born in 1663 and married Margaret Fliming, born 1680. He was the manager of a small wauk mill in the village. The village landowners were the Kennedies and in 1653, the corn and waulk mills are named as part of the barony of Kirkmichael. When Abercrummie was writing, about 1690, he said there was no clachan by the church, but a settlement must have grown quite rapidly, because in the early 1700s it became known as a village of weavers, with a reputation as a source of Ayrshire needlework. Gilbert Doak’s standing as a waulkmiller is commemorated on the back of his gravestone, where there are carvings of waulking shears and a millwheel. There is also a ploughshare and a searing iron and, at the bottom, a ploughman with a team of four oxen and a boy with a goad; which would indicate that he was also a well-to-do farmer. He died in 1722 and his wife in 1731. On the front of the stone is a small shield with their initials. They had three sons, John, James, and Robert. James married and farmed Auchenarrock and his daughter Jean married the second Quinton MacIlvean.
Quintin and Jean Doak’s children were baptised - Jean 1756, James 1759, John 1761, Kathrine 1763, William 1766, Isabella 1767 when her mother was 43.
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