Peter Murdoch became joint tenant of Holehouse and Boreland
at Martimas 1861. On the 14th April 1872 he married Agnes Patterson,
youngest daughter of James Paterson (Merchant in Old Cumnock).
On the termination of the lease at Holehouse and Boreland they
removed in 1876 to the farm of Glendrishaig, in the parish of
Ballantrae. At the expiry of the Glendrishaig lease in 1892 they
removed to Stranraer having resolved to retire from farming 'as
their previous success in farming had enabled them to do'. In
1893 they removed to Ayr. He died in Ayr on the 21st March 1914
and his wife died soon after in Ayr on the 15th May 1914.
Their family consisted of :-
James (born Holehouse) 28th January 1873
(died Glendrishaig) 26th August 1891 (aged 18)
Agnes (born Holehouse) 17th November 1874
(died Holehouse) 10th February 1876 (aged 1)
May (born Glenapp Lodge)
20th December 1876
(died New Zealand) 1957 (aged 81)
Mary Jane (born Glendrishaig) 16th February 1879
William (born Glendrishaig) 25th January 1881
Peter (born Glendrishaig) 13th March 1883
(died Ayr) 5th January 1914 (aged 30)
