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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Stanley House | Continued | [continued from page 67] or in any other. By what ever name the lands on which this house is situated may have been called at a remote period, it does not appear, from any document or tradition known concerning it, that the place was named Stanley till some years after 1683, when Margaret, Lady Nairne, succeeded her father Robert, the first Lord. This lady was married to Lord William Murray, fourth son of the Marquis of Atholl by Lady Amelia Sophia Stanley, daughter of James Stanley, Earl of Derby. Tradition says that after the union of the families of Atholl and Nairne, the mansion house and grounds received the name of Stanley, in honour of the Marchioness of Atholl, that being her family name; and, as the place is always spoken of as having been the dowager-house or residence of those members of the family not in immediate possession of the family honours, it is very probable that the above Lady Amelia, the Marchioness, came to reside in it at the death of her lord in 1703 when the name may have been first applied. This house is delightfully situated on the margin of the River Tay, amid magnificent and beautiful scenery, and surrounded with beech and other trees of the most stately growth, evidently of great age." New Statistical Account |
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