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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
FERNYBRAE Fernybrae
Fernybrae
Fernybrae
Fernybrae
Fernybrae
Robert Smith Esqr. Glenmillan
Mr. James Strachan Milton of Auchenhove
Mr. John Milne Ph. [Parish] Registrar Blelack
Mr. William Davidson Occupier
Revd [Reverend] Charles McCombie L.L.D. [Doctor of Law]
071 A Crofthouse, a dwelling house & outhouse one storey high thatched and in tolerable repair, the property of F. Farquharson Esqr. Finzean.
BOGENTASSIE Bogentassie
Bogentassie
Bogentassie
Bogentassie
Bogentassie
Robert Smith Esqr.
Mr. James Strachan
Mr. John Milne
Mr. John Kemp Perkhill
Revd [Reverend] Charles McCombie L.L.D. [Doctor of Law]
071 Two Small farm Steadings adjacent to one another consisting of two dwelling houses and outhouses all one Storey high, thatched and in tolerable repair, the property of Francis Farquharson Esqr. Finzean.
WIFE'S CAIRN Wife's Cairn
Wife's Cairn
Wife's Cairn
Wife's Cairn
Wife's Cairn
Wife's Cairn
Robert Smith Esqr.
Mr. James Strachan
Mr. John Milne
Mr. John Kemp
Mr. John Troup Brankholme
Revd [Reverend] Charles McCombie L.L.D. [Doctor of Law]
071 This name applies to a Small heap of Stones of about thirty Cart loads, promiscuously thrown together to mark the place where an old drunken Wife died, on her way over the moor, Some Sixty years ago; She went to get a drink of water from a Splendid Spring near to Macbeth's Cairn, fell down to rise no more, hence the Cairn to her Memory.

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County of Aberdeen Parish of Lumphanan

Wife's Cairn. Seems to be extinct. JMcD

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