OS1/5/8/105

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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BELLSTRUTHER BOG Bellstruther Bog
Bellstruther Bog
Bellstruther Bog		 Mr. James Miller, Blackburn Mill
Mr. Thomas Mack, Ecclie
Mr. McGregor, Schoolmaster		 004.10 [Situation] On the West Side of Eye Water about fifteen chains S. [South] from the North and ten E [East] from the West margins, of the plan A small portion of Moor or rough pasture on the farm of Blackburn Mill the property of William Hay Newton Esq.,
The meaning of, Struthers, Says Chalmers, "is indicated by its uniform application to Mosses and Marshes and to other Swampy and Moist places." Some authorities give it as a corruption of the Saxon Stour or Staer a river, or water in general
See Chal. [Chalmers] Cal. [Caledonia] Vol [Volume] 2 P. [Page] 389
The Gaelic word Struthan Signifying, a Stream or rivulet, apparently, bears Some reference to Struther

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Parish of Cockburnspath

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Berwickshire County, Cockburnspath Parish

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