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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Kirkhope (Parish) | Parish of Kirkhope | Abridged Statistical History of Scotland, Vol. [Volume] 2 Pages 991 & 992 | "A summons of disjunction and erection at the instance of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch against the heritors of the parish of yarrow was heard before the Teind Court in June 1851, praying for the disjunction and erection of Certain parts of the Parish of Yarrow, within the Presbytery and County of Selkirk, into a new parish to be called the Parish of Kirkhope, having the Chapel at Ettrick Bridge for its Parish Church, to effect which, the Duke of Buccleuch expressed his willingness to MaKe over the chapel at Ettrick Bridge to be the church of the new Parish, to erect a suitable Manse, and to bear the whole expense of the Judicial proceedings. The proposed Measures having been brought under the notice of the Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and the Deans of the Chapel Royal. No opposition was made in effecting the disjunction and erection proposed. The Conclusion of the Summons were, that the parts of the Parish of Yarrow described should be erected into a new parish, to be called the parish of Kirkhope, that the Church at Ettrick Bridge Should be the Parish Church of Kirkhope, with a churchyard, Manse, garden, offices, Glebe, and grass-ground; and that the Minister to be settled in the Parish should have a yearly stipend of £200, with the usual allowance for Communion elements. Decree was given in the case by the Teind Court, they merely reserving the question of Stipend, which was subsequently fixed at such quality of victual, half meal, half barley [which] would be equal to 16 chalders, £8.6.8, for Communion elements. |
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[Page] 2Parish of Kirkhope - Continued
Described by John Callanan Lce Corpl [Lance Corporal] R.E. [Royal Engineers]
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