James VI and II and eventually led to the establishment of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

In the 1848-58 OS Name Book the name is given as 'Burbrough' with several cottages present with gardens and at that time a bobbin mill, making the wooden bobbins vital to spinning and weaving, in what was previously a lint or linen mill. The small Cairns school stood near Cairns Farm, Blackwood and the Railway Cottages in 1899.