Documentary evidence in 1860, relates dividing a former Esson house into two pauper’s dwellings,
for the families of paupers John Christie and Isabel Cooper, with thatching required.
A few months later, another colonist, Alexander Lindsay’s house was deemed uninhabitable by Oyne Parochial Board,
and the Board removed the Cooper family to the Poor Cottages at Ryehill, near Oyne,
and allocated her side of the divided house to the Lindsay’s.