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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BORLAND MAINS Borland Mains
Borland Mains
Borland Mains
Boreland Mains
Rental
Mr Shaw Factor
Valuation Roll
Voters List -
035 A farm steading in good repair the property of the Marquis of Bute now occupied by James McKerrow
BORLAND SMITHY Borland Smithy
Borland Smithy
Borland Smithy
Rental
Mr D. Shaw Factor
Mr Cameron Steward
035 This dwelling house and offices are at present occupied by Hugh Arthur who states that his family has occupied the premises for 5 or more hundreds of years, it is a plain dwelling with nothing to denote its antiquity owing to successive repairs.
The only thing worthy of notice about the building is a stone built in the kitchen fire place taken from the Ruins of Borland Castle having thereon the Initials H M 1677 M H which letters represent Hugh Montgomerie and Margaret Hamilton his Wife

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