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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
KIRK YARD WELL Kirk Yard Well Mr. Henderson Templehall
James Young House of Muir
Some of the old inhabitants in the neighbourhood
014 A Well about ¼ of a Mile North of West Peaston in the north Side of a field called the "Kirk Yard Shot". It is now only used for wattering Cattle.
KIRK YARD SHOT Kirk Yard Shot Mr. Henderson Templehall
James Young House of Muir
Some of the old inhabitants in the neighbourhood
014 A Cultivated field on the North Side of West Peaston. There is no tradition in the locality Concerning the origin of this Name. All the people now living in Peaston are Comparatively Strangers in the place, being chiefly farm labourers who Are employed from year to year. All the old inhabitants who know anything of the tradition of the two Peastons, have to be searched for elsewhere.

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List of Names collected by John McDiarmid C.A. [Civilian Assistant]
Plan 14C Trace 1
Parish of Ormiston

[Signed] James Carpenter C Asst [Civilian Assistant]
W. James Cap. R.E [Captain Royal Engineers]
27th May 1853.

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