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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| DOUGLAS [village] | Douglas Douglas Douglas |
Thos. [Thomas] R. Scott Esq Rev John Jamieson Mr Jas. [James] Scott |
038.13 | A large village of considerable antiquity, and in former times, as a burgh of Barony, a place of great importance, possessing a regular magistracy. Several buildings bear dates between 1500 and 1700 and within the Graveyard there are the ruins of a church dedicated to St Bride. A row of buildings named the dungeon were lately taken down and new tenements erected on their site. In construction the village is remarkable for its narrow streets and the entire absence of parallelism in the disposition of the houses. Besides the antiquity in the Graveyard, it contains a Ph. [Parish] Church - Free Church & a small edifice belonging to the U.P. [United Presbyterian] body. It also contains a large Ph. [Parish] school, F. [Free] Church school & girls' school - Several inns a post office, three considerable manses, a branch office of the City of Glasgow Bank, and a cotton factory, now disused and tenanted by hand-loom weavers. Weaving population. The village & nine-tenths of the Ph. [Parish] belong to the Douglas Estate. |
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