Person:William Gibson (82)

Dinmuck (or Dunmuck) was the name of his farm. It is found on Ordnance Survey maps throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Its co-ordinates are 54.91161N- 3.67934W. The size of the farm is unknown. It would have been a tenanted holding. The back of the property stretches up Redbank Hill, one of a small range of hills that separate Colvend and Southwick parish from Kirkbean parish.

William's son Samuel left Dinmuck for Tallowquhairn in Kirkbean, and the family stayed there for at least two generations.

By the 1841 census Dinmuck was being farmed by a family named Wilson (the maiden name of his son John's wife).

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Southwick Stone 52, in Mitchell, Alison. The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright monumental inscriptions pre 1855. (Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2JL: Scottish Genealogy Society, c1990-)
   Volume 2, 8b.

   William Gibson in Dinmuck died 25 Nov 1803 aged 74,
   son Samuel died 1774 aged 15,
   his wife Jean Newall died 10 Feb 1788 aged 66,
   son John died Talloquhairn, Kirkbean, 22 Jun 1837 aged 81,
   his wife Mary Wilson died Talloquhairn died 02 Oct 1851 aged 88.
   Departed friends dry up your tears Here must we lye till Christ appears.