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Title: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: moo on Tuesday 24 October 17 13:42 BST (UK)
Hello Everyone,

Could someone please help with the following :-

I read it as - Isabella Scott in ????? had a child born to John Middlemas 18 Dec 1802 and baptized by the name Andrew.

Regards
Moo
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: trish1120 on Tuesday 24 October 17 13:48 BST (UK)
I agree Andrew.
Its on Freereg and they couldnt work it out, just have it as A* Scott, Mother Isabella.
Abode Sunlas.**
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: moo on Tuesday 24 October 17 13:59 BST (UK)
Thank you Trish

(at the end of the attachment it gives his name as Andrew. James belongs to the previous entry  :) )

Any idea where or what Suntas is or was ?

Regards
Moo
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: MonicaL on Tuesday 24 October 17 14:13 BST (UK)
Moo, what parish of Roxburghshire was this registered in? Might help in narrowing down searches here.

Monica
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: MonicaL on Tuesday 24 October 17 14:17 BST (UK)
Same question on place name came up here but sadly no answers there  :-\


 Under Roxburgh baptisms for 21 May 1780, the full reading is: 'Thomas Hume in Sunlas (?) Hill had two children registered here, the first was born ist November 1778 and baptized by the name of Janet, the other born the 11th December 1779 by the name of Peter baptized'.


Monica
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: ev on Tuesday 24 October 17 14:50 BST (UK)
Could it be Sunlaws Hill in the Parish of Roxburgh ?
That's on the 1841 Census transcription on FreeCEN.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.5591&lon=-2.4619&layers=1&b=1


ev
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: MonicaL on Tuesday 24 October 17 19:43 BST (UK)
That is a great possibility Ev  :)

Monica
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: MonicaL on Tuesday 24 October 17 19:48 BST (UK)
A reference and descriptioin here https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/roxburghshire-os-name-books-1858-1860/roxburghshire-volume-33/55

Possibly a farm?

Monica
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: terianne on Friday 27 October 17 13:38 BST (UK)
the old sunlaws estate is at Heiton nr Kelso  - Sunlaws house is now the Roxburghe Hotel and now part of the Duke of Roxburghe's land
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: moo on Thursday 09 November 17 17:04 GMT (UK)
Thank you everyone, sorry for my delayed answer.

I believe the area was Jedburgh.

Regards
Moo
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: Daonnachd on Thursday 09 November 17 17:58 GMT (UK)
Just to say - Scotland's People have the parish as Roxburgh, which suggests the Roxburgh Hotel site might be correct.

Hope this helps,

Lindsey
Title: Re: Help please with transcription in Birth / Baptism record 1802
Post by: terianne on Thursday 09 November 17 19:49 GMT (UK)
Just to let you know in the Scottish borders parishes are close together -in Roxburghshire we can have a few within a radius a 12 miles for instance Kelso,Roxburgh,Eckford,Crailing,Morebattle,Jedburgh,etc

And boundaries can change over the years, sunlaws is  Roxburgh parish