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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAIR CROSS ANA | Fair Cross Ana | Robert Darling Esqre Broomlands. William Smith Esqre Writer. Mr William Archibald. Mr Turnbull. Steward. Revd [Reverend] Mr James Jarvie Kelso. Mr James Bowhill Kelso. |
009.04 | This name applies to that portion of the South Park in front of Floors Castle, where the Tweed at one time formed an island, of which the traces are yet distinctly visible. The origin of this name has given rise to conjectures which are as curious as they are interesting and will be found worth narrating. The Author of the Old Statistical Account. transmutes the name of Fair Cross into "fair Corpse" and connects it with an explanation of Mary of Guilders over the dead body of her husband James II. Others will have this Cross as coming from St. James's fair, where in time bygone usually the royal proclamations were issued and placed somewhere near King James's Holly Tree; One morning the Cross was found to be abstracted, its socket. only left, which lies at present within the paling under the Holly Tree, and near to it, the traces of the Wheels of a cart were discovered. The Antiquarian hunger of the Baronet of Abbotsford caused it to be whispered that the venerable relic had been transported thither, but the unworthy suspicion has never been justified by its discovery there. The townhead lieges [continued on page 38] |
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[Page] 37Parish of Kelso -- Sheet 9 No. 4 -- Trace 4.
Collected by H. Sharban
[Note] -- Ana - A river Island, a holm - Roxb: [Roxburgh]
Of doubtful origin -- Jamiesons Scottish Dictionary
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