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Title: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: jkhansen on Friday 13 October 17 15:55 BST (UK)
Andrew Meikle Wright? and Mary Balderston  A: J: .N??? Mary
W: David Balderston Bax.... and James Craig m.......... B: 28th July

1. 'Wright' is Andrew's job description?
2. The meaning of A: J: .N?
3. David Balderston Bax... his job?
4. James Craig ' morrhanl? What does it means back in those days?
This word is also written further down for William Hay .....

Taken from 'Old Parish Registers Births - Linlithgow -1718'.
Thank you in anticipation and appreciation.
- Jean
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: horselydown86 on Friday 13 October 17 16:12 BST (UK)
Andrew Meikle Wright and Mary Balderston A: d: N: Mary

W: david Balderston Baxter and James Craig Merchant B: 28th July

A: d: N: = A daughter named

ADDED:

I agree that Wright is his job - he makes something.

Baxter is either a job, or a surname.

I'm not familiar with Scottish jobs but I'm sure someone will chime in.
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: arthurk on Friday 13 October 17 16:21 BST (UK)
Quote from: horselydown86 on Friday 13 October 17 16:12 BST (UK)
Baxter is either a job, or a surname.

I'm not familiar with Scottish jobs but I'm sure someone will chime in.

As I understand it, Baxter is a common Scottish word for Baker - or possibly the usual word.
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: horselydown86 on Friday 13 October 17 16:25 BST (UK)
Quote from: arthurk on Friday 13 October 17 16:21 BST (UK)
As I understand it, Baxter is a common Scottish word for Baker - or possibly the usual word.

Thanks Arthur.
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: josey on Friday 13 October 17 16:30 BST (UK)
Deleted - query already answered!!
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: jkhansen on Friday 13 October 17 18:10 BST (UK)

I agree that Wright is his job - he makes something or because he could write? A clerk or?

This line of Meikle's family were seamen/ Captain; Tacksman (Taxman in 1851)
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: horselydown86 on Friday 13 October 17 18:58 BST (UK)
Spelled this way, a wright would normally mean someone who makes (or repairs) things, either in part or whole, eg:

Millwright, shipwright, cartwright, wheelwright

In Scotland a writer (often spelled writter) is a lawyer.
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: jkhansen on Friday 13 October 17 19:06 BST (UK)
Quote from: horselydown86 on Friday 13 October 17 18:58 BST (UK)
Spelled this way, a wright would normally mean someone who makes (or repairs) things, either in part or whole, eg:

Millwright, shipwright, cartwright, wheelwright

In Scotland a writer (often spelled writter) is a lawyer.

Thanks - sounds more logical that he makes something.
- Jean
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: horselydown86 on Friday 13 October 17 19:55 BST (UK)
Just noticed that the OED gives a specifically Scottish and Northern English definition of wright as a carpenter or joiner.
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: Skoosh on Saturday 14 October 17 10:48 BST (UK)
Linlithgow Trade Guilds! he couldn't practise his trade in the burgh unless he was a member of the Wrights & he couldn't join a guild until he first became a burgess. Check what records there are for both.

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: jkhansen on Saturday 14 October 17 16:24 BST (UK)
Quote from: Skoosh on Saturday 14 October 17 10:48 BST (UK)
Linlithgow Trade Guilds! he couldn't practise his trade in the burgh unless he was a member of the Wrights & he couldn't join a guild until he first became a burgess. Check what records there are for both.

Skoosh.

Not able to find anything in this line and have spent some hours doing so. Thanks for tip and will bear it in mind.
- Jean
Title: Re: Deciphering please > Birth/bap. MEIKLE Mary - 1718
Post by: Skoosh on Saturday 14 October 17 19:06 BST (UK)
Jean, Glasgow & Edinburgh's trades have been published, this is what's available for Linlithgow,

https://www.westlothian.gov.uk/article/2050/Family-History

It would be good if you could find a connection to Andrew Meikle, the wright who invented the threshing machine but he was East Lothian.

Skoosh.