| 1. | Earlier biographies mistakenly reported that Catherine had married the older Burgh.
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| 2. | All burghs were abolished, and a system of districts created.
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| 3. | In 1974 the burghs became part of larger districts and regions.
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| 4. | Until 1974 Greenock was a parliamentary burgh in its own right.
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| 5. | The governing body of a police burgh were the police commissioners.
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| 6. | The Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 formally abolished burghs.
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| 7. | In 1668, it became a municipal burgh incorporated by charter.
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| 8. | Clydebank was founded as a police burgh on 18 November 1886.
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| 9. | He was John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde.
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| 10. | It was part of the former Burgh of Buckhaven and Methil.
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