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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOUDON SCHOOL Loudon School
Loudon School
Loudon School
Allan Carswell
J: Ray
George McHaffie Esqr.
019 [Situation] 3/4 mile East by South of the Mains of Penninghame
A school House erected in the year 1830 by public subscription. the average number of scholars attending school is 70.
The Earl of Galloway allows 10£ a year for the education of from 6 to 10 poor boys. It appears that not only the common rudiments of English education but even the higher branches including Geography, English Grammar, Mathematics. together with the French and Latin Languages are taught.
the rate of charges average from 2s/6d to 7s/6d per Quarter according to the branch or branches of education taught It is erected on a hill called Louden Hill
LOUDON HILL Loudon Hill
Loudon Hill
Ainslie's Map 1782.
George McHaffie Esqr.
019 [Situation] 3/4 mile East by South of the Mains of Penninghame
[The school] is erected on a hill called Loudon Hill.
BAR FAULDS Barr Falls
Barr Falls
Barr Falls
Barr Faulds
Mr. D. McCulloch
Mr. William Bede
Mr. Adam Nevin
George McHaffie Esqr.
019 [Situation] West of Barvennan Moss.
A considerable arable hill on the Farm of Barvennan, it appears to have been called Bar Faulds from the circumstance of a Sheep Fold being on the North end of it. It is now corrupted to bar Falls. -

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[Page] 12 -- Parish of Penninghame
Form 136
Page 36- Loudon School
Loudon Hills
34- Bar Faulds

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