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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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BRAEHEAD MAINS | Braehead Mains | Lord Aberdour, New Saughton William Grey, Braehead Mains |
001 | A large farm house with offices and an arable farm attached, it is the property of Lord Aberdour of New Saughton. |
NEW SAUGHTON | New Saughton | Lord Aberdour, New Saughton William Grey, Braehead Mains |
001 | A country mansion house surrounded by a neatly laid out demesne - it has commodious stables, a handsome garden some distance to the south further again stands a circular tower about 100 feet high with a cistern at its summit into which water is driven by a force pump & hence conveyed by pipes to the mansion, it is the property of Lord Aberdour the occupant. |
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[Page] 29List of Names collected by 2nd Corpl [Corporal] Mechan RSM [Royal Sappers and Miners] 27th April 1855
Plan 1D Trace 2
[Parish] Cramond
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