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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
KIRK BURN Kirk Burn
Kirk Burn
Kirk Burn
William Maxwell Esqr.
Mr. John Leach
Revd. [Reverend] John Murray
022 [Situation] In Morton Wood running S.E. [South East]
A small rivulet which takes is rise in morton wood running in a S. [South] Easterly direction to its junction with the Cample water.
The Authorities Write it in two words
UNION WORKHOUSE Upper Nithsdale Combination Poor House
Union Workhouse
William Maxwell Esqr.
Mr. John Leach
Revd. [Reverend] John Murray
William Brydon
022 [Situation] About 1¾ mile N. E. [North East] from Thornhill,
A new Poor House the building of which is now complete but the wall by which it is to be enclosed is not. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch & the Heritors of Nine Parishes have been at the expense of the building hence the name It will hold 126 inmates

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[Page] 104.
Parish of Morton -- Plan 22-16. Trace 2

[Signed] Hugh Doherty Civil assistant

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Kirk Burn - Descriptive remarks - last word assumed to be 'words'

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