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Edinburgh Canongate burial record
« 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
Co Durham BROOKS / Northumberland BURNS / Fogo ALCORN, DODDS / Whitby LINTON, STONEHOUSE, GRAHAM / Stirlingshire BROWN, MCLACHLAN, JOHNSTONE / Blackford (Perthshire) DAVIDSON, MURRAY / St Andrews KIRK, HAY / Leith, Orkney GROUNDWATER, EUNSON / Edinburgh HUTTON, WRIGHT, BLAIR, CHISHOLM, GREGOR

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Re: Edinburgh Canongate burial record
« Reply #1 on: Monday 14 June 21 13:41 BST (UK) »
Here are some more examples from the same page
Co Durham BROOKS / Northumberland BURNS / Fogo ALCORN, DODDS / Whitby LINTON, STONEHOUSE, GRAHAM / Stirlingshire BROWN, MCLACHLAN, JOHNSTONE / Blackford (Perthshire) DAVIDSON, MURRAY / St Andrews KIRK, HAY / Leith, Orkney GROUNDWATER, EUNSON / Edinburgh HUTTON, WRIGHT, BLAIR, CHISHOLM, GREGOR

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Re: Edinburgh Canongate burial record
« Reply #2 on: Monday 14 June 21 13:58 BST (UK) »
Fleshmarket Close.

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

William
Dent (Haltwhistle and Sacriston), Bell and Jetson (Haltwhistle), Postle, Ward, Longstaff, Purvis, Manners, Parnaby and Hardy (Co. Durham), Kennedy and McRobert (Banffshire), Reid(Bathgate), Watson (Wemyss), Graham (Libberton), Sandilands (Carmichael), Munro (Dingwall)

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Re: Edinburgh Canongate burial record
« Reply #3 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.
Co Durham BROOKS / Northumberland BURNS / Fogo ALCORN, DODDS / Whitby LINTON, STONEHOUSE, GRAHAM / Stirlingshire BROWN, MCLACHLAN, JOHNSTONE / Blackford (Perthshire) DAVIDSON, MURRAY / St Andrews KIRK, HAY / Leith, Orkney GROUNDWATER, EUNSON / Edinburgh HUTTON, WRIGHT, BLAIR, CHISHOLM, GREGOR