Balmeadowside
Balmeadowside CRC S NO317183 1 362 100m SWF
Balmadyside 1390 x 1392 RMS i no. 854 [Ramsay of Colluthie MNZ; associated with lands of Pittachope FLK; see FLK Intro., Chapel of Glenduckie]
(lands of) Balmadisid 1416 Fraser, Southesk, 507 [William of Lumquhat CLS resigns lands of Balmeadowside and Pittachope FLK into hands of his lord, David Leslie, at house in which Simon of Balmeadowside lived]
Simon de Balmadisid 1416 Fraser, Southesk, 507 [see preceding]
Balmaddyside 1511 RMS ii no. 3649 [to David Ramsay of Colluthie lands of Balmeadowside CRC and Pittachope in barony of Ballinbreich FLK]
Balmadysyd c.1560 s Assumption, 34
Balmudysyd 1590 x 1599 54 B [not on Blaeu (Pont) East Fife]
Balmedisyd 1642 Retours (Fife) no. 618
Balmaddisyde 1642 Gordon MS Fife
Balmaddy syde 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
Balmeadow Side 1828 SGF
Balmeadowside 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
en Balmeadie + Sc side
‘Hill-side associated with or beside Balmeadie’; the lands of Balmeadowside and Balmeadie DBG may once have been contiguous, although they always seem to have been in separate parishes.
/baˈmidɪˌsaid/ is the older, local pronunciation; nowadays you will often hear /balˈmɛdoˌsaid/.[135] The form -meadow is the result of incorrect Englishing (a kind of h
This place-name appeared in printed volume 4