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Offline Rosezi

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Scottish Baptism record
« on: Monday 05 March 18 12:11 GMT (UK) »
Help needed to decipher this Scottish baptism for Margaret Simpson 1749, the  words in brackets (begotten......)
Banks - Wick, Caithness
Dunbar - Co Antrim-Birkenhead-Liverpool
Kemp - Woodnesborough,Kent-Liverpool
Long - Ireland-Liverpool
Clarke - Ireland-Liverpool
Weldon - Dublin-Birkenhead
Thomas - LLandysilio,Anglesey-Liverpool
Roberts -Denbighshire-Liverpool
Spain-Woodnesborough, Kent
Seed - Ballyculter, Co. Down
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Re: Scottish Baptism record
« Reply #1 on: Monday 05 March 18 12:16 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

Begotten in fornication ? 

Looby :)

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Re: Scottish Baptism record
« Reply #2 on: Monday 05 March 18 12:18 GMT (UK) »
I was going to say "in flour reactor" but that didn't seem quite right - your suggestion is better Looby.
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Re: Scottish Baptism record
« Reply #3 on: Monday 05 March 18 12:32 GMT (UK) »
I was going to say "in flour reactor" but that didn't seem quite right - your suggestion is better Looby.

Haha - It does look a bit like that. Definitely a bit of a scrawl isn't it ?


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Re: Scottish Baptism record
« Reply #4 on: Monday 05 March 18 12:36 GMT (UK) »
The reading is as Looby has said.  What is written is:

...(begotten in ffor:
:nication)...



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Re: Scottish Baptism record
« Reply #5 on: Monday 05 March 18 13:01 GMT (UK) »
It might be worth looking at the Kirk Sessions records for that time to see if anything is mentioned or punishment and admonishment recorded.

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Re: Scottish Baptism record
« Reply #6 on: Monday 05 March 18 14:39 GMT (UK) »
many thanks for all the replies, born in fornication it must be, as there is no marriage record for her parents
Banks - Wick, Caithness
Dunbar - Co Antrim-Birkenhead-Liverpool
Kemp - Woodnesborough,Kent-Liverpool
Long - Ireland-Liverpool
Clarke - Ireland-Liverpool
Weldon - Dublin-Birkenhead
Thomas - LLandysilio,Anglesey-Liverpool
Roberts -Denbighshire-Liverpool
Spain-Woodnesborough, Kent
Seed - Ballyculter, Co. Down
Graham-Ayrshire-Ballyculter-Liverpool