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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SECESSION CHURCH Secession Church George McHaffie Esqr. Provost of wigtown 020 An United Secession Chapel in the burgh of Wigton now erecting at a cost of about £948 and "belonging to a congregation established in 1748" Top Stat & His Gaz. [Topographical Statistics & Historical Gazetteer] of Scotland page 818 The old Church was pulled down in march 1845 having stood for 95 years the new church is building upon the site of the old one-
BOTANY BAY Botany Bay George McHaffie Esqr. Provost of wigtown 020 A back lane on the N. [North] side of wigtown on its S. [South] side is a Brewery.-
HIGH VENNEL High Vennel George McHaffie Esqr. Provost of wigtown 020 a lane branching off & running N [North] from High Street the houses average from one to two stories in height the lane is macadamized & drained.-

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Plan 20 B -- List of Names collected by Corpl. [Corporal] Robert Barlow R S & M [Royal Sappers & Miners] 1st. Examiner -- [Page] 21
Trace 5 -- [Parish] Wigtown
Object
Secession Church - a Building
Botany Bay - Lane
High Vennel - Lane
[Signed] Robert Barlow
Corpl. R S & M [Royal Sappers & Miners]
5th. June 1845

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