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101Ruddiforth — This interesting surname, of Scottish origin with variant spellings Rutherford, Rutherfoord, Rutherford, Rotherforth, and Ruddiforth, is a locational name from Rutherford in the Scottish Borders near Roxburgh, deriving from the Olde English pre… …
102Rutherfoord — This interesting surname, of Scottish origin with variant spellings Rutherford, Rutherfoord, Rutherford, Rotherforth, and Ruddiforth, is a locational name from Rutherford in the Scottish Borders near Roxburgh, deriving from the Olde English pre… …
103Rutherforth — This interesting surname, of Scottish origin with variant spellings Rutherford, Rutherfoord, Rutherforth, Rotherforth, and Ruddiforth, is a locational name from Rutherford in the Scottish Borders near Roxburgh, deriving from the Olde English pre… …
104Carmunnock — CARMUNNOCK, a parish, in the Lower ward of the county of Lanark; containing 717 inhabitants, of whom 390 are in the village, 5 miles (S.) from Glasgow. The name of this place is supposed to have been derived from the compound Gaelic word Caer… …
105Maxton — MAXTON, a parish, in the district of Melrose, county of Roxburgh; containing, with the village of Rutherford, 459 inhabitants, of whom 110 are in the village, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Jedburgh, and at an equal distance from Kelso and Melrose.… …
106Maxwellheugh — MAXWELLHEUGH, a village, in the parish and district of Kelso, county of Roxburgh; containing 90 inhabitants. This place, which is of very great antiquity, and now a suburb of the town of Kelso, formed part of the parish of Maxwell, long since… …
107Pettinain — PETTINAIN, a parish, in the Upper ward of the county of Lanark; containing 416 inhabitants, of whom 80 are in the village, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Lanark. The name of this parish is supposed to have been derived from the old British word… …
108ploughland — n. 1. Tillage land. 2. Carucate …
109Carucage — ♦ Tax on ploughland. (Sayles, George O. The King s Parliament of England, 144) Related terms: Carucate …
110Hide — A unit of measurement for assessment of tax, theoretically 120 acres, although it could vary between 60 and 240 acres. By custom it was the land that could be cultivated by one eight ox plough in one year. In the Devonshire Domesday Book, it… …
