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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COW DEN Cow Den
Cow Den
Cow Den
Mr John Packman, Rayne
Mr John Smith Rayne
Dr. [Doctor] Mitchell Rayne
044 This name is applied to a small piece of ground planted in fir, but formerly a libertywas granted, through the Kindness of Sir J. D. H. Elphinstone Bart. [Baronet] to the people of Old Rayne to graze their cows upon it free of any charge.
STRATH-HORN Strathhorn
Strathhorn
Strathhorn
Mr James Cooper, Tenant
Sir J. D. H. Elphinstone Bart. [Baronet]
Rent Receipt
044 A farmsteading & dwellinghouse one storey, slated and in good repair; property of Sir J. D.H Elphinstone. Bart. [Baronet]
QUEEN'S FORD Queen's Ford
Queen's Ford
Queen's Ford
Sir J. D. H. Elphinstone Bart. [Baronet]
Dr. [Doctor] Mitchell
Mr James Cooper
044 Sir J. D. H. Elphinstone says that the Ford over the Ury at Strathhorn is called the Queen's Ford. The tradition goes that Queen Mary (of Scots) slept at Rothemay and crossed the Ury at that spot on her way to the House of Tillyfour where she remained the night previous to the Battle of Corriechie on the South side of the Hill of Fair

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