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Thank you! I thought that the second one was Neill just because nothing else fit with the "iell". I considered "Heiw" but there is a clear Hew on the page and the H looks nothing like our likely N. I guess that the N is just a really sloppy N.

Katherine

Speir is a name seen in the Kilmarnock area circa late 1600's so it looks like that is Archibald's surname. Perhaps the "th" word is "there", referring to Robertland which is the location of the previous listed person in the document.

Arthur doesn't appear to have been a commonly used name in the Stewarton and Kilmarnock area, but I can't come up with any other name that would fit.

Katherine

The will of Christiane Wyllie, 1661, has a list of 37 debts awand in. I'm stuck on some of the names.

First image: In the first be [   ] in [   ]
                   [  ] Smith in kirkmuir
Second image: [   ] gilmor [servitor?] to the laird
                    be [  ] wyllie in Kilmarnock
third image: who is that in between John Caskie and Robert Dickie?

Thanks, there are a few more but they will have to wait their turn for another post.

Katherine

Here is a section with an "N" in "Nothing". Also maybe an N further down, at the beginning of the last line, which I think reads "None" but I'm not sure.

I can tell you that transcribing old documents has sure made me more careful with my own handwriting!

Katherine

This is the will of James Cuthbertson in Over Auchintiber
1. For debts owing out, I have Margaret Cuthbertsonne in Auchintiber, Thomas Cuthbertson in Fulwod, then Robert Stewart, John Stewart, Jonat Howie, Robert Nowxley, and John Cothrae in... where. Is that an abbreviation for "foresaid". And I am ready to stand corrected on the names.
2. In the Legacie, I have Jonet Darroche his spouse, and the four bairnes are Agnes, Marien, Helen, and . I should recognize that abbreviation but I can't recall it.
Thanks!