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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Smithfield Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Catherine Law [Occupant]
Mr George Georgeson Foratwatt House
Mr James Georgeson Foratwatt House
046.12 A small dwelling house with Croft attached situated immediately south of "Foratwatthouse, The property of Master Robert Scott of Melby.
Walls Walls
Walls
Walls
Walls
Walls
Walls
Walls
Waes [the Parish]
Waes [the Parish]
Mr George Georgeson Foratwatthouse
Mr James Georgeson Foratwatthouse
Mr Robert Nicolson Merchant &c. Springfield.
Valuation Roll.
Johnston's Map.
Fullerton's Gazetteer.
Ainslie's Map. 1789.
Sir R. Sibbald's Shetland 1711
J. Brand's Shetland, 1700
046.12 A district situated on the west coast of "Mainland of Shetland comprising an area of 200 acres bounded on the south by "Vaila Sound." It contains an Estd. [Established] Church "Congregational" Chapel & Wesleyan Methodist Chapel" also a number of substantial dwelling houses, with a number of small crofters tenements. Chiefly The Property of Master Scott of Melby.
Loch of Foratwatt Loch of Foratwatt
Loch of Foratwatt
Loch of Foratwatt
Mr James Georgeson Foratwatthouse
Mr James Georgeson Foratwatthouse
Mr A. Henry of Bayhall
046.12 A small freshwater loch situated immediately east of Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. On The property of Mr A. Henry of Bayhall

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[Page] 236
Parish of Walls -- Shetland,
[signed] James Stuart C/a [Civilian assistant]

Walls [note] (The Name is still in Shetland pronounced Waas, probably from the Norse Vagr, a bay or voe, corrupted into Waa or Way; & "Waa" being Scotch for Wall, the modern name has thus become Walls. The same has occurred in Kirkwall, the capital or Orkney, whose Norse name was Kirkju-vagr, or Church-bay) JTH

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