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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRIERLAW | Frierlaw Frierlaw Frierlaw |
James Brown Sprouston Joseph Helop Redden George Jeffrey Frierlaw |
006.14 | once a farm house with offices and arable farm, the office houses have been taken down, and the arable farm attached to Redden, along with the farm house two stories high and a vegetable garden which now only remains to mark the place, the house is occupied by two men employed in the farm of Redden, it is situate about half a mile east from Sprouston, in the South Side of the Road to Berwick, it is supposed to have once been ecclesiastical ground and belonged to Kelso Abbey but the origin of the name is derived from Friars, in the North West side of Kelso, one of the name of Robert Turnbull once rented the Friars, and he was the first that, occupied and rented the place before mentioned, it having no name at that time, he called it Frierlaw, being a corruption of Friar, The property of James Innes Ker Duke of Roxburgh. |
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[Page] 16County Roxburgh Parish of Sprouston -- Described by Charles Patterson Sapper R.E. [Royal Engineers]
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