translation possible?

[ThumbelinaPM]

Any ideas what the bit in red box says please?

[tonepad]

2nd Ann Ferguson

or  Brown.





Tony

[ThumbelinaPM]

Thank you.

Any idea why it would state 2 surnames for the 2nd wife?

[tonepad]

Perhaps a previous married name and a maiden name.


Tony

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Thanks Tony

[Forfarian]

Tony is right. Listing all a married woman's surnames is quite normal for a Scosttish death certificate.

[ThumbelinaPM]

Thank you Forfarian! Long time, no chat

I have found her marriage to my ancestor, Robert Morton, which shows her as Ann Brown with her father's name as Ferguson.

[Lodger]

Here in Scotland the maiden surname is always listed first as that would always have been her legal name.
Any subsequent married name is a sort of curtesy name which the woman may or may not decide to use.

[ThumbelinaPM]

Good to know, thank you Lodger.

By the way, I noticed you have kindly posted a list of headstones in New Monkland cemetery and, as the headstone was missing for my ancestor, my Mum bought a memorial which we placed August 2023. Would you be able to add her name to your list in case anyone is looking in the future?
Location is New Monkland Cemetery, ref 292 Section I.

We have since discovered her mother (the lair owner) is also in the lair so we do plan to place another memorial stone. Her name is Agnes Tuff Christie Thomson born 12 Jan 1850

The image is too large to attach.

I will have the image put on findagrave.com too.

Thank you.