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Title: Edinburgh Canongate burial record
Post by: brooksburns on Monday 14 June 21 12:30 BST (UK)

Please help me fill in the blanks - thank you!  And then, if anyone knows how to interpret it in terms of locating the grave, that would be the cherry on the cake.

William flesher fleshmarket ....
died on the 17th
Buried in .... 9 .... N of S walk 89 ....
W of ?Berwicks? ground

Title: Re: Edinburgh Canongate burial record
Post by: brooksburns on Monday 14 June 21 13:41 BST (UK)

Here are some more examples from the same page

Title: Re: Edinburgh Canongate burial record
Post by: Millmoor on Monday 14 June 21 13:58 BST (UK)

Fleshmarket Close.

Suspect it is 9ft and that rather than 89 it is &9ft.

William

Title: Re: Edinburgh Canongate burial record
Post by: brooksburns on Monday 14 June 21 14:00 BST (UK)

Thanks a lot Millmoor.

Any guesses on that word that looks like "aria" - could this mean "area"?  The final a is really weird though, with almost a tail.