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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Muiravonside (parish) Muiravonside
Muiravonside
Muiravonside
Muiravonside
Muiravonside
Muiravonside
Muiravonside
Moranside
Moranside or Mooravonside
Revd. [Reverend] James McFarlan Minister
Mr. Matthew Henderson
Mr. Alexander Whyte
Statistical Account
Valuation Roll for 1855-56
Grassom's County Map
Johnston's County Map
In ancient records
Nimmo's History of Stirlingshire
The parish of Muiravonside is in the Presbytery of Linlithgow, Synod of Lothian & Tweeddale and in the County of Stirling.
The name is commonly pronounced and generally written in ancient records, Moranside, and is derived,doubtless, from the position of the parish on the river Avon, and its uncultivated aspect in former times. Our silver communion cups, however, probably presented to the parish by the Earl of Callendar, and Lord of Almond, are said in 1676, to belong to the church of Almond: this, together with a tradition, that the minister once lived at Almond Castle, which is not far from the church, makes it probable that the Chaplain of the castle, having assumed the spiritual superintendence of the district, got it erected into a separate parish, as it is repeatedly mentioned among the patronages of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, as anciently forming part of the parish of Falkirk. The date of its disjunction is unknown. It is named as a separate parish in 1606, the date of the oldest presbytery record.
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Parish of Muiravonside

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