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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COMRIGS Comrigs





Comerings
Mr. Mather. Factor
Robert Currie Bar: [Baron} Officer
Estate Map
Ainslies Ph. [Parish] Map
New Stat [Statistical] Account
017.14 This name applies to several enclosed lands which at one time formed a farm. These enclosures are situated west of the village.
KIRKTON SANDS Kirkton Sands Estate Map
Mr. Mather. Factor
Robert Currie Bar: [Baron] Officer
017.14 This name applies to enclosed lands situated east of the Village. They at one time formed a farm.
EAGLESHAM [village] Eaglsham Mr. Mather. Factor
Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Colville
Estate Map.
New Stat. [Statistical] Account
etc. etc.
017.14 This village consists of two principal Streets nearly paralel, and contains 122 houses. [The] tenements are held on a feu of 999 years [at] trifling cost. The population is poor, and composed principally of weavers, of whom 400 work at the handloom, and 2[?] are employed in a cotton factory situated in the middle of the village. It is in the presbytery of Glasgow, Stipend £278.14.6, appropriated tiends £856.2.5, patron, Allan Gilmour Esq. present incumbent, the Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Colville. It contains a church, two dissenting places of worship, besides rooms by different sects as preaching places. The parish [school] contains about 90 Scholars, besides which, there are two [others] containing respectively about 40 & 30 scholars. 40 of the [?] children attend in one or other of these Schools. No m[?] is held here.
See historical extracts affixed to end of book for further particulars.

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[County of Renfrew
Parish of Eaglesham]

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