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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
DORLAITHERS Dorlaithers Mr. Alexander Shearer Dorlaithers
Mr. John Winton Brunthall
Mr. Charles Mair Dubford
019 This name applies to an ordinary sized farm steading with dwelling house outhouses and garden attached in good repair the property of Mrs. Milne Ardmiddle House.
Also: a small farm steading and a few houses near it, about eighteen chains north east of the above, the farm, with outhouses and garden is in bad repair and is the property of trustees of the late George, James and Alexander Chalmers Turriff.
DORLAITHERS CASTLE (Remains of) Dorlaithers Castle
(In Ruins)
Mr. Alexander Shearer Dorlaithers
Mr. John Winton Brunthall
Mr. Charles Mair Dubford.
019 As their is nothing of any importance in Connection with Dorlaithers Castle there is no record of its erection. All that remains of it is part of the wall on the northside, of no great thickness, or strength, being built with Clay and lime. It was a square built building of no Architectural beauty. Local tradition puts it in the possession of two sisters natives of Denmark of
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County of Aberdeen. Parish of Turriff.

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