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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BELSTANE Belstane
*Stewart Hill
Mr Swanson, Corston Hill
William Hodgson, Sunnyside
*Co [County] map
011 A farm house in good repair with commodious offices The property of Humphrey Graham Esq W.S. [Writer to the Signet] Edinburgh. I think this should be Belston but the proprietor & others spell it "Belstane"
LEITH HEAD MILL (Corn) Leith Head Mill Alexander Porter, Little Vantage Toll 011 A corn mill upon the Water of Leith by which it is worked attached is the millers residence & adjacent the cots [cottages] of the laborers [labourers] employed, it is the property of the Earl of Morton of Dalmahoy
HILLEND Hillend Alexander Porter, Little Vantage Toll 011 A small thatched cot house upon the farm of Corston

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[Page] 21
List of Names collected by 2nd Corpl [Corporal] Mechan RSM [Royal Sappers & Miners]
Plan 11 C Trace 1
[Parish] Kirknewton
[Signed] John Mechan 2nd Corpl [Corporal] R.S.M. [Royal Sappers & Miners] 24th Feb [February] 1852

Transcriber's notes

An entry relating to an unidentified farm house has been scored through and is not transcribed.

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