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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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MEMSIE | Memsie Memsie Memsie |
Mr D. Bruce Berryhill Mr J Urquhart Memsie Mr James Birnie Memsie |
002 | This name applies to a large district, the greater part of which is under Cultivation, It is Situated about two miles west of the Church of Rathen, the property of Sir John Bayly London. |
Site of CAIRNS [Memsie] | (Site of) Cairns (Site of) Cairns (Site of) Cairns |
Mr James Birnie Memsie Mr Birnie Waterside The Rev. [Reverend] J. B. Pratt M.A. [Master of Arts] |
002 | Cairns of Memsie. The Cairnmoor of Memsie lies north-east from the House. In a "Description of the Parish of Rathen, by Auchiries, A.D. M.DCC.XXIII," [1723] among Macfarlane's M.S. [Manuscripts] Geographical Collection, is the following account: North from Memsie is a large muir, named the Cairnmuir, from three very large Cairns of Stones, half a mile north-east of Memsie; they are about a hundred yards distant from one another. Each is near a hundred yards of Circumference at the basis, and [continued p.5] |
CAIRN | Site of Cairn | Mr. James Birnie, Memsie Mr Birnie. Waterside |
002 | Cairns of Memsie. The Cairnmoor of Memsie lies north-east from the House. In a "Description of the Parish of Rathen, by Auchiries, A.D. M.DCC.XXIII," [1723] among Macfarlane's M.S. [Manuscripts] Geographical Collection, is the following account: North from Memsie is a large muir, named the Cairnmuir, from three very large Cairns of Stones, half a mile north-east of Memsie; they are about a hundred yards distant from one another. Each is near a hundred yards of Circumference at the basis, and [continued p.5] |
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