Birth Record words

[seemex]

I have a birth record from Scotland and I don't understand the word.
I've left others visible for reference, but the one I am looking at is "Thomson"
On the line that reads:"William Thomson, S---? Lapswade". It looks like another name...Slater or something, but off to the right margin are the family names, and the wife's name is listed below as May Morrison, so I'm stumped?
Also the town, Lapswade, could be Lasswade. I can't see the former on an map.
Any help would be appreciated,
Brian

[AMBLY]

Hi Brian

William Thomson Slater Lasswade

Slater being his trade/occupation
Lasswade being his abode

Lasswade is written using the old-style double-s letter form. which is often mistaken by modern eyes for a 'p' or 'ps', or 'f' or 'fs'.

(That's a big brood of children they have there )

Cheers
AMBLY

[seemex]

 Thank you AMBLY! That's awesome! Thanks for the info on the double "S" as well. Good to know.
Brian

[KGarrad]

The character was called a long 's', and was like a lower-case f, but without the crossbar.
It looks like this: 'ſ '.

When there was a double s in a word, it was usually written as a long 's', followed by a normal 's'.
ſs - which causes confusion to modern eyes!

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

[seemex]

That's interesting and now it makes sense to me. I've seen other words written that way and always thought the second letter was an "f" and that people just spelled differently back then.