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From: "John D. Stevenson" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ROX] Bo"ness
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:21:42 +0100
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Good evening Bob,
Bo'ness lies just east of Grangemouth on the south bank of the river Forth..
Was until the the 1960's an important coal exporting port ( number of pits
in the area )and a timber importing port as well as a large ship-breaking
yard.
I 19th C was called BORROWSTENESS and is shown as that on older maps . Was
in Linlthgowshire now known as West Lothian.

Regards.
John

John D. Stevenson
Blue skies, W F2/3, 21C
Edinburgh.


relder wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where Bo"ness is in Scotland I've been told a
> ancestor came from there but for the life of me I cannot find it in
> my Map
>
> Bob Elder North East of England
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