OS1/11/44/10

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
WATER OF LEITH Water of Leith
Water of Leith
John Kerr
John Ormiston
002 ; 005 ; 006 ; 016 ; 010 ; 011 [situation] Running in a N. [North] Easterly direction past the City of Edinburgh
A considerable stream the source of which is the unit--- waters of Mid Burn and West Burn & running in a N. [North] Easterly direction and after passing into the Frigth [Firth] of Forth at Leith. See Description Remarks in Name Book Sheet 17 5 feet seale Edinburgh.
WEST CAIRNS West Cairns
West Cairns
Wester Cairns
West Cairns
James Ormiston
John Ormiston
Knox's Co. [County] Map
Stat. [Statistical] Acct. [Account] 1845
016 [situation] About 22 chains S. W. [South West] from East Cairns
A small farm house & out houses in bad repair tenanted by James Ormiston. The property of William Laird Esqr.

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Parish of Mid Calder

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36 - Water of Leith
32 - West Cairns

Transcriber's notes

I can't make out the last portion of the Description remarks in Water of Leith; "See Description Remarks in Name Book Sheet 17 5 feet seale Edinburgh". "feet seale"?

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