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Cumnock History Group

About this Organisation

We are a constituted Voluntary Group formed in 2013 by the late Bobby Grierson with 150 members worldwide.
Annual membership is £10.
Our ever growing main website has comprehensive coverage of all things Cumnock including photographs, films, documents, research articles and much more.
We undertake local history research and family history.
We have monthly talks.
We can give talks locally in Ayrshire.
We can do a guided walk around Cumnock.

Resources
USB stick of Monumental Inscriptions and Headstone photographs of Cumnock old cemetery Barrhill Rd (2014) and Cumnock new cemetery Glaisnock Street (2020).
Pennylands Camp 22, WW2 - a POW camp and later a camp for repatriating Polish soldiers.
Information on all the men and women of Cumnock who participated in WW1.
Research into farms in the parishes of Auchinleck, New Cumnock, Ochiltree and Old Cumnock including those now gone.
A public online family tree linking people who were born or lived in Cumnock and their ancestors and descendants.

Links

Website: 
https://cumnockhistorygroup.org
https://cumnockconnections.tribalpages.com
https://farminginthecumnockarea.blogspot.com
https://cumnocksoldiers.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/CumnockHistoryGroup
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cumnockfamilyhistory
https://www.facebook.com/groups/203859154220530
https://www.facebook.com/groups/485066661651197
https://www.flickr.com/groups/cumnock2016/

Contacts

  • Mrs Kay McMeekin
    Chair & Secretary
    info@cumnockhistorygroup.org
    Tel: 07949 781287

Organisation Type

Family History Society/Association/Group
Local History Society/Association/Group

Location

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Cumnock
Ayrshire
KA18 3AD
Entry last updated: November 24th, 2025

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