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Stevenson, a mansion in Haddington parish, Haddingtonshire, near the right bank of the Tyne, 2 ½ miles ENE of Haddington town. John Sinclair, an Edinburgh merchant, who purchased the barony of Stevenson, was created a baronet in 1636; and his eighth descendant, Sir Robert Charles Sinclair, ninth Bart. (b. 1820; suc. 1863), holds 473 acres in Haddingtonshire and 18, 874 in Caithness, valued at £1042 and £5285 per annum.Ord. Sur., sh. 33, 1863. See Murkle.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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Feature Description: | "a mansion" (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites") |
Administrative units: | Haddington ScoP East Lothian ScoCnty |
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