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Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county, OS Name Books - Dumfries county - Volume 25 - Parish of Holywood, OS1/10/25

Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 32,
Parish of Holywood Sheet 49. Plan.1.

[Signed] M Donohue

Transcriber's notes

There are initials JBJ below each of the entries in the Orthography and also initials(?) in the List of Names - Won?

Glengower - Orthography - there is some partially erased writing in the first two columns - [Query Glengower -- Capt --]

Fourmile House - Other modes of spelling - the first 'o' is written more like an 'a'

Fourmile House - Descriptive remarks - there are letters lost in the page fold. There are some letters written in red between the first two lines, there may be a quotation mark? written above 'a' at the start of line 4 and the name written on line 5 looks more like 'Bomage' but have transcribed as 'Ramage' - see OS1/10/6/198

McWhanrick - Descriptive remarks - there are letters lost in the page fold. The name in line 3 may be 'Gillespie'

Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county, OS Name Books - Dumfries county - Volume 25 - Parish of Holywood, OS1/10/25

This volume contains information on place names found in the Dumfriesshire parish of Holywood.

Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Dumfries, which is in the south west of Scotland.

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