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Although there is only 1 town called Traquair, the way these were written in the 1730s was to give the hamlet where the event took place. Each record would go along the lines of "A Person in Kailzea", or "A Person in Pirn" or "A Person in the Riggs".

The part I am interested in is the bit after "in". I have no concern as to the actual death date, my concern is the hamlet within Traquair where she lived.

Could someone kindly do a lookup for the death of  Mary Tait on 18 Feb 1733 in Traquair

I'm interested to know in what part of Traquair she died.

Thank You.

The whilk...

My grateful thanks for this. The Corshope area is new to me, I originally I thought it was Carlops!, which is why I should never try to do this sort of thing myself (I also only got about a dozen or so words anyways!)

The results of his misdemeanour can be found here, although nowadays he would probably got a few years in jail.

A lesson to be learnt about drinking and being in charge of a horse I suppose.

The reason why his father was not allowed to be buried in the kirkyard is another whole story that may never be found I suspect.

this is from Peebles Presbytery from 1628.

Spoilers

General story is Thomas Brunton allows his horse into the kirk yard, minister of Traquair and his wife confront him and ask him why, he replies that he is angry the minister refused him the right to bury his father in the churchyard, he then threatens the minister with his whinger (dagger). Mininsters wife slightly unhappy, they all go home.

Would that be a general synposis of events?

Thank you for the quick response. Date was actually 1697 on the document. Seems obvious now!