The surviving Taxation Roll of 26th March 1479 (reign of James the III) shows “Over Gogar ………………xiij(s) viij (d)”.
1572 Edinburgh had strict regulations on the sale of malt and contravention of the Acts dealing with malt prices resulted in fines for William Bishop and William Welschot, both in Over Gogar and for Thomas Black, a cottar in Gogar Village.
Between 1604-1608, the inhabitants of Over Gogar were in trouble with its neighbours in Ratho over “anent certain ludgeis biggit” on the common muir of Gogar for some of its tenants “infectit with the pest”. Marjoribanks of Ratho and his sons had destroyed the plague refuge huts. The Privy Council, on the understanding that the muir was a commonty shared by Ratho and Over Gogar, ordered James Douglas and James Lauriston of Over Gogar to build the plague huts on the border of the muir “mair ewest thair ain propirtie” where there was the best water supply.
Maii 9. 1635 MAGISTER JOANNES YOUNG de Reidhewis, hæres Thomae Young scribæ signeto regio, patris, - in quarteria terrarum et villæ de Overgogar, et parochia de Ratho. - A.E. 6s. 8d. N.E. 20s. iii.253. (extracted from the Great Seal 1660).
1685 David Wilkie and Isabell Grant in Over Gogar had a son baptized named David.
John Kincaid of Over Gogar in 1744 offered to sell James Watson his Negro boy Cato. He admitted that the “American black fellow” had been involved in an incident “with my Lady Stair’s black boy”. They had stolen fruit from a woman street vendor. For this Kincaid horse-whipped his boy. The sale does not seem to have taken place.
Statistical account of 1845: - in possession of the Ballender (n) family the heiress of which was Annabell Ballender (n) who married into the Lauder family in 1610.
The whole of the estate passed into the possession of the Lauderdale family by the marriage of Charles Maitland, third son of John, Earl of Lauderdale to Elizabeth the second daughter of Mr Richard Lauder in 1653. It continued in the Lauderdale family until 1792 when the property was sold and shortly afterwards was parcelled out into the original elements, of which it consisted, when it was consolidated by the purchases of Allan de Lawdre.
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1845 owned by Edward Lothian Esq. |
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1855 Farm of Jaw and Over Gogar (o) Sir Gibson Craig Bart. |
(t) Robert Paul. |
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Over Gogar Farm (o) James Downie Kirk. |
(t) Alex. Gibson. |
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1862 Farm of Jaw and Over Gogar (o) Sir Gibson Craig Bart. |
(t) Alex Dickson. |
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1864 |
(t) Alex Gibson. |
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1865 |
(t) Alex Dickson. |
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1867 William Logan White (Over Gogar) |
(t) James Elder. |
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1871 Sir William Gibson Craig, farms of Jaw and Over Gogar. |
(t) Alex Dickson. |
Teind Roll 1957 Mrs J. A Sudlow per Dundas & Wilson C.S. 16 St Andrew's Square (107 acres of Over Gogar).
1970 taken over by the Department of Agriculture. The farm is described at this time as a small dairy farm (3 fields). The farmhouse stood where the farm office's now are.
The Oak trees in the grounds are Japanese Oaks.