The house and estate The 40 shilling lands of Cocklebie with "
manour place, towers, biggings, and yards, in the Barony of Stewarton, Bailiary of Cunninghame, with teinds, parsonage, and vicarage of Cocklebie." Cocklebie Meadow recorded. The farm of Cocklebie was part of the Lainshaw Estate in 1873. Cocklebierigg and Cocklebie croft are also recorded. The Farm Horse Tax records for 1797 to 1798 give Alexander Bone as the farmer at Cocklebie with two horses. In the 1645 to 1831 Land Tax Rolls records Cocklebie, Backmure, & Goosehills are valued at £177.1.8 and the proprietor is given as the Earl of Kilmarnock. A later valuation gives David Cuninghame Esq as the proprietor of Cocklebie Bakemuir and Goosehills with a valuation of £117.1.8. In 1857 to 1858 Cocklebee was recorded as a small dairy farm with a freestone quarry nearby.
Lairds In 1476 David Lindsay and his wife, former wife of Jenkin Stewart, were in dispute with John Ross of
Montgreenan over the tack of three merks worth of the lands of Cockilbie. In 1608 Robert Montgomerie of Kirklands held the sasine of the lands of Cockilbie. In 1630 John Montgomerie of Cockilbie was nominated by the Lord Commissioners as a sub-commissioner at the Presbytery of Irvine for valuing the teinds (tithes) of Scotland in that area. In 1638, John Montgomerie of Cockilbie (sic) died, leaving a wife, Jeanne Forrester and children John, Agnes, Barabara, Margaret, and Catherine. He may have held Broadstone Castle near Beith and held lands in Ireland. The will was signed at Cockilbee in 1636. The Hon Alexander Cunningham of Corsehill (d. May 1646), married Marion Porterfield, the daughter of William Porterfield of that Ilk and Duchal, and had a child, Sir Alexander Cunningham of Corsehill. Alexander married Mary Stewart, daughter of John Stewart of Blackhall, and had two children, the second of whom was known as Cuthbert Cunningham of Cockilbie. Neil Montgomerie married the heiress of Lord Lyle and had a son, Neil, who died before 1621. Their son, Neil, had married Elizabeth, daughter of John Cunningham and had four children, Neil of Lainshaw, William of Bridgend, James of Dunlop, and John of Cockilbie. Neil and his son John sold their estates in 1654 to John of Cockilbie. In 1666 Cuthbert Cunynghame of Cocklbee (sic) disponed the lands of Cocklbee and Kirktowne to Alexander Cunynghame younger of Corshill, giving up the rental of the lands that was six pounds Scots and two hens as well as a days service at the harvest, the latter service was disputed in the barony court. Alexander Dickie of Cocklbee (sic) was the procurator fiscal to the Corsehill Baron-Court in 1668. The holder of the lands of Cockilbie had the 'right and privilege' of holding a weekly market and four yearly fairs in 1707. ==Cartographic evidence==