Agnes Anderson Cove/Coldingham

[AlanBoyd]

17 October 1884, Dundee Evening Telegraph

A FORGED RECEIPT.
Jacob Nisbet, fisherman, Coldingham Shore, was tried before Sheriff Dickson, at Duns, on Wednesday afternoon, for issuing a forged receipt. It appeared that Nisbet owed £18 15s 11d to David Thompson, shoemaker, Coldingham, who died in June 1881. Nisbet afterwards, between 30th January and 13th February 1883, sent the forged document to the agent for the executor, who was collecting the debts due to the late Mr Thompson. The document purported to be a genuine discharged account for £14 9s 2d, and was receipted "October 3, 1879. Paid. D. Thompson." It was shown during the trial that the receipt stamp used, being one of the second issue of the combination Postage and Inland Revenue stamp, was not issued until December 1883, and could not have been used in October 1879. The Sheriff found the charge proved, and sent Nisbet to prison for sixty days.

[Forfarian]

the actual death certificate did have “Bell” as the maiden name on it but the search return said Nicol

You should report this error to Scotland's People using the yellow button on the web site above the image of the certificate.

And you are right that her birth was too early for there to be a birth certificate because statutory civil registration began in 1855.