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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
HODDOM SAW MILL Hoddom Saw Mill William Gillies Sawyer Hoddam Bridge End
James Paterson Farmer Townshawhead
057 [Situation] Nearly 1¼ mile N.W. [North West] by W. [West] from Upper Brydekirk --
Consists of a stone building two storeys high having suitable apparatuses for sawing timber, both foreign and homegrown: The machinery is driven by water power & by an overshot wheel which is 16 feet in diameter and two feet wide. The average number of hands employed are four. It is occupied by William Gillies and is the property of Admiral Sharp of Hoddam Castle near Annan

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Parish of Annan -- Sheet 57 No 11 -- Trace No 1

[Note Saw Mill Burn (crossed out)]: Not recognised in Ph. [Parish] as a proper Name.

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