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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
QUEANS STRIPE Quines Stripe
Quines Stripe
Quines Stripe
James Mitchell Nethertown of Windyhills
James Sellar MarchbanK
William Bremner Myreside
008.16 A small stream taKes it rise 7 Chains north west of MarchbanK and flows in an easterly direction until it enters the burn of DesKford. The origin of this name is well authenticated and appears to have arisen from the fact that in former times many young women resorted there to gather blaeberrys in the afternoon of Sunday. Hence the name Quine being a local term for a young woman.

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county of Banff - Parish of Grange

Note - Queans Stripe - Vide Jamieson's Dictionary for the Spelling of this word.

[signed] Charles W. Casser Sapper R.E. [Royal Engineers]

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