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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Balfron Balfron
Balfron
Balfron
Balfron
Balfron
Balfron
Revd. [Reverend] A. Niven
Statistical Account
Nimmo's History of Stirlingshire
Valuation Roll for 1855-6
Michael Robertson Esqr.
Mr. John Fairlie
The parish of Balfron is in the Presbytery of Dumbarton, Synod of Glasgow and Ayr. The name of this parish may, from its etymology, mean the Town on the Burns, or the Town of Mourning. In the former case, the name is descriptive of its locality; the original clachan or town being situate at the confluence of two inconsiderable streams. In the latter case, the parish may be supposed to take its name from an event or rather an interesting character, and which forms a part of its traditionary history. On one occasion it is said, when the aborigines had gone to a little distance to attend on their religious rites, they left their children in their tents. On their return, they discovered, to their horror , that they had been all destroyed by the Wolves which infested this part of the country, in common with other districts in Scotland at this period, and hence, ever after, the place was called the town of "Weeping or mourning". Which of the two derivations is the correct one, we leave the curious to determine. It is bounded on the east and south east, by Gargunnock and Fintry; on the south and north-west [Continued on Page 2]

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