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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
POST OFFICE [nr Invernochty] Post office
Post office
Post office
Revd [Reverend] John Watt. The Manse
Mr A.G. Anderson. Schoolmaster
Mr George Ironside. Bellabeg
060 An ordinary dwelling house where a branch Post office is at present held letters are dispatched and arrive here every day from & to Rhynie This was formerly the parish Schoolhouse
MAUSOLEUM [nr Invernochty] Mausoleum
Mausoleum
Mausoleum
Mausoleum
Revd [Reverend] John Watt
Mr A.G. Anderson
Mr George Ironside
Name on Stone
060 A good substantial granite building erected about 1831. by Major Mitchell in memory of his wife; who was related to Sir Charles Forbes of Newe Castle. and also to be used as a family vault or Mausoleum. It is in the form of a Square pedestal and rises to the height of about twenty feet. and is all dressed or polished granite from the hills in Corgarff, and the interior is constructed in the Catacomb or shelving style of vaults and a tablet outside bears a suitable inscription
INVERNOCHTY Invernochty
Invernochty
Invernochty
Revd [Reverend] John Watt
Mr A.G. Anderson
Mr George Ironside
060 An ordinary farm house. with offices garden &c attached so called from being near the confluence of the Water of Nochty with the River Don.

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Parish of Strathdon

[Note beside 'Mausoleum']
The name of the family to whom this mausoleum belongs and who use it as a sepulchre is Alexander Anderson of Candacraig

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