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Found it eventually after searching for anyone named John (just picked a common name). Saw a john on a page 61. But the actual page in the image was 58-59.  Another 6 credits took me to pages 60-61 where I found Jane.

Those pages are basically double pages in a big table with whole bunches of consecutive entries belonging the same parents all being added years after the fact.

Hard find. But got there.

On FindMyPast there is an 18/20 July 1831 birth and baptism record for a person named Jane Burnet Cruickshank. For some unknown reason I've never been able to find this on ScotlandsPeople.

The FindMyPast record has the following reference information:

Page 61
Archive Ref OPR 168A/27
Year Range 1854-1855 (<-- )
Place Aberdeen
Item 27

 
On census records she always stated that she was born in Turriff. Parish 168A is Aberdeen, where she did live for quite some time from a young age. The reference above, although for 1831, gives a year range of 1854-1855.

I was thinking of looking for mistakenly unindexed births by trying to find other births that might be on the same page or nearby. As seen in the reference info above I have a parish number and a page number. But what is "item 27"?

I found an 1853 record for a random person with reference 168/A 270 / 57. Would "270" be what FindMyPast calls "Item 27"? If so, then I could perhaps be four pages away.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone knew what "item 27" meant, because I seem to be missing an important part of the actual OPR reference number.

I once saw someone on a fiindmypast Scotland census transcription with the occupation of "Boob Maker" and another who was employed as a "wanker" (hope I don't get in trouble for writing that).

I thought for a while about reporting it, but my inner 14-year old ended up finding it too amusing.

Anyone know what "B.A" in the "Marriage/Orphanood" column means?  It's written next to children.

For example, twins David and George Kerr born 24 May 1921, parents married 1912.  Both have "B.A".

I have the birth records of these two and their parents are the same persons they are living with in the census. All the children of this couple have the same and about a third of all the others on the same page.

The first image is from a 1749 marriage record in Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire. Marriage between Andrew Urquhart and Margaret McDonald alias Dow. After each persons name there is something that looks like "Gn.". I can't quite make it out or have a clue what it means. No other persons on this page from the marriage registry have this after their names.

The second image dates from 1755 and is the baptism record of his son who had the cool name of Farquhar Urquhart. Something I can't read, and which seem to be related to the above abbreviation, is written after the father's name.

Any ideas?