Scottish death certificate 1850's-decipher

[blamcca]

Can anyone decipher the bottom entry of this death certificate I can read bits and pieces of it but it is mostly unreadable to me?

[Alexander.]

This is my reading of it, going across the columns:

Orrock, Margaret, Pauper (Formerly Farmer's Wife)
Female
81 Years
Kingham, 3 Years in Penicuik
Father: James Meldrum, Farmer (Deceased)
Mother: Janet Meldrum Maiden Name Redgrange(?) (Deceased)
Spouse: Robert Orrock (Deceased)
Children:
  1. Isobel, 51
  2. James, 48
  3. Margaret, 43
  4. Eliza, 40
  5. Alexander, 36
  6. Agnes, 34
1855 May Thirtieth 1h. 30m. PM
Kirkhill
General Dropsy, 10 years, No Medical Attendant
Burial Ground of Penicuik As Certified by Andrew Brass, Church Officer
Eliza Orrock, Daughter, Present
1855 June 1st At Penicuik, Robert Alexander, Registrar

Alexander

[blamcca]

Thanks, I'll have to see what others say about her mothers maiden name 

[blamcca]

Looking further into it I think her birth place was Kinghorn not Kingham, thats what the censuses said. Also there isn't a Kingham in Scotland. The transcription from Scotlandspeople says her mothers maiden name was Belfrage, but I don't know I'll look for a baptism record.

[Alexander.]

Yes, you are right about Kinghorn.

Belfrage may be right even though the first letter looks like an 'R'. There was a Marion Melbrum dau of James Melbrum and Janet Belvrage baptised in 1767 in Kinghorn, though I can't see a Margaret.

Alexander

[blamcca]

Yes Alexander that is probably the right couple, I think I found more children of them but with her having the name Janet Beveridge. However there is still no Margaret but there is a gap where there probably should have been a child born (4 years between 2 children at that time is unusual) and going by the age of Margaret's death certificate she is right in the middle of that gap. Interestingly enough I have just found that this Marion Meldrum married Robert Orrock's brother Alexander. And one of their grandchildren, Mary Mitchell, married the James Orrock who is listed as Margaret's son. This part of the tree is quite tangled up.

[Billyblue]

Mother's maiden name looked like Redgrange to me also, even before I read Freckneale's transcript.

Capital letter R - compare with Robert Orrock in next column.

Dawn M

[blamcca]

Perhaps it may be, I don't know 
I just printed an enlarged copy of it off, I find them easier to read not on a screen. And Freakneale has put the cause of death as 'General Dropsy' but looking at it there is no going down bit of a 'p' (not sure what to call it), would it actually be 'General Decay'. What do you think Dawn?

[Alexander.]

You are right, it is General Decay. I wasn't reading it carefully enough.

Alexander