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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
West Balgrochan West Balgrochan
West Balgrochan
West Balgrochan
J. Maitland Pr. [Proprietor]
G. Hoome Acre Valley
Valuation Roll
032.04 This name belonged originally to the Farm Steading which crosses margin line of Traces, but it now applies to the houses about it as well as the Farm, & extends northwards near to the Temple & south as far as "Law". The Steading is the property of Mr. Maitland & those of the little village about it are feues.
Law Law
Law
Law
Law
James Ferrie Esqr. Balgrochan Mill
R. Fleming Feuar
J. Maitland W. [West] Balgrochan
Hugh McNeil. Tenant
032.04 A long thatched house which by the people of the neighborhood is said to take its name like the mound on Trace 3 South of the "Puddlehouse" from being a place where in ancient times justice or law was administered, & the common belief is that it was a Roman (?) mound, or that the Romans used it for the purposes stated; for at present, or indeed within the memory of the personal authorities quoted, some of whom are near 80 years old, there is not a mound remaining, but the position of the "Law" house is certainly elevated a good deal above the village of Torrance. It is a gradual rising hill but not remarkably so. This place is sometimes pronounced Layo, but most of the people know it to be properly "Law". Upon the personal authorities quoted there was an Urn containing calcined remains found at the spot marked in the year 1824. The description given of them answers that given in New Statl. [Statistical] Account below. There were no cairns on either of the "Laws".
"There have been several Urns found in the Parish containing ashes & burnt bones, the urns were about 5 inches in depth & fifteen in diameter, made of coarse clay apparently baked in the sun, a species of frieze work encircled the lower edge. They have been found in Cairns generally placed between two flags."
New Statistical Account.
Urns found here 032.04 ... Upon the personal authorities quoted there was an Urn containing calcined remains found at the spot marked in the year 1824. The description given of them answers that given in New Statl. [Statistical] Account below. There were no cairns on either of the "Laws".
"There have been several Urns found in the Parish containing ashes & burnt bones, the urns were about 5 inches in depth & fifteen in diameter, made of coarse clay apparently baked in the sun, a species of frieze work encircled the lower edge. They have been found in Cairns generally placed between two flags."
New Statistical Account.

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Co. [County] Stirling -- Campsie Parish

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