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2000.-Sept. 1844. 22 1
No. 136.
List of Names collected by William Rowan c/a [Civilian Assistant] 1st Examiner.
[Column Headings]
Trace--Received Names--Object--Description--Parish Rerwick [Rerrick]--Authority for spelling Name--Address
51C 7--Allan's Cross
Allan's Cross
Allan's Cross
Allan's Cross----This name applies to a spot of ground which is handed down by tradition as being the place where an improper intimacy was carried on between one of the Abbots of Dundrennan and Lady Kirkarswell n [nee] Broughton. The traditionary story is related in nearly the following terms. "The Laird of Kirkarswell suspecting an improper intimacy between his Lady and one of the Abbots of Dundrennan gave orders that he was going from home for some time, and concealing himself with a few able men among whins and other brushwood, he saw the Lady and Abbot meet at a place called Allan's Cross near the junction of the Abbey Burn with that of Balmangan Burn and observing them proceed to criminal intercourse, the men laid hold the Abbot and deprived him of manhood, there is to this day a grave stone in Dundrennan graveyard with the following inscription. "Elizabeth Vans, sometime lady Broughton." This tradition is well known in the locality.--[Rerrick]-- Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Thompson
Mr. Kissock
Mr. Davidson
J. Nicholson--Rerwick
Balmangan Mill
Kirkcudbright
Kirkcudbright
Sigd. [Signed] William Rewan c/a [Civilian Assistant]
Transcriber's notes
Image transcribed. Page completed but awaiting instructions as indicated on Page 57
I have doubts about the following in the description:-
Lady Kirkarswell n? [nee?] Broughton
Ordnance Survey - Kirkcudbright county, OS Name Books - Kirkcudbright county - Volume 154 - Parishes of Kirkcudbright and Rerrick, OS1/20/154
This volume contains information on place names found in the parishes of Kirkcudbright, and Rerrick.
Ordnance Survey - Kirkcudbright county
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