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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
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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List 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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The rank "2nd Corporal" was unique to the Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers & Miners and lay between Lance Corporal and Corporal.

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