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Offline Ruskie

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"The Which day" ?
« on: Monday 01 February 10 11:12 GMT (UK) »
The date is written then the OPR marriage entry begins:
"The Which day" followed by the names of those marrying etc ...

All 4 entries on the page begin the same way.

This is in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire in 1743.

Can anyone please explain what "The Which day" means? I'm still trying to translate the rest of the entry.  :-\

Just had a thought that it may mean something like "On this day" - does that sound logical?

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Re: "The Which day" ?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 01 February 10 11:40 GMT (UK) »
I think if you read it as meaning "on which day" it would make sense. It does to me, anyway, but then, my Scottish grandparents used some very strange sentence construction! ;)
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
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NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
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Re: "The Which day" ?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 01 February 10 11:55 GMT (UK) »
"The which day" can be translated as "The day just referred to"

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Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: "The Which day" ?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 01 February 10 13:09 GMT (UK) »
Thanks genjen and David. That makes sense.

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Re: "The Which day" ?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 12 February 10 00:28 GMT (UK) »
Old Scots quhilk = whilk = which

I have many pages of transcripts of early 1600s Scottish (Orkney) court cases where "The quhilk day" is used at the start of virtually every case reported.  Drives one crazy to read, but gives great insight to the era.

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Re: "The Which day" ?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 12 February 10 00:35 GMT (UK) »
Yes, fascinating isn't it? Half the time I have little or no idea what these things say or mean, but I really enjoy (trying to) reading them.
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