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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CAMBUSMICHAEL COTTAGE Cambusmichael Cottage
Cambusmichael Cottage
Laurence Christie GameKeeper occupier
Thomas Kinair, Game Keeper, Berryhills
074 A handsome wooden cottage 2 stories high,. The upper flat of which is occupied by Laurence Christie, & the under flat is appropriated as a Bower or Summer house by the Earl of Mansfield's family.
CAMBUSMICHAEL CHURCH (In Ruins) Cambusmichael Church (in Ruins)
Cambusmichael Church (in Ruins)
Cambusmichael Church (in Ruins)
Laurence Christie
Archibald Menzies Loanfolds
Thomas Kinair
074 A small church in ruins, situated within a graveyard, which is still used, its walls are still entire, but roofless. It was used as the Parish Church for Cambusmichael which was united to that of St. Martins nearly 200 years ago. It is the property of the Earl of Mansfield. but the inhabitants of the locality, holds the right of a roadway from the farm house of Cambusmichael to the graveyard, for their internments.
Cambus in the Gaelic language signifying a low plain, is descriptive of the situation of the old parish church of Cambusmichael, as it lies in a plain on the banks of the Tay. The ruins of the church of Cambusmichael still remain, but the name of that parish is lost in that of St. Martin's which now forms the designation of both parishes. The two parisheswere united above 100 years ago, and take their
names from the two Saints to whom they were dedicated”
Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]

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