Yesterday afternoon, the body of Margaret Fraser was found in the Canal, near Hadagain. She was a poor woman, and dealt in gingerbread and confections; and is supposed to have fallen in on her way from some of the country markets. She had been amissing for a week or two.
Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 7th December 1814.
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7 December 2014
31 March 2011
Drainie Kirk Session Register, 1811
Church of Drainy, 31st March, 1811.
Compeared Margaret Fraser, late servant to Mr Anderson, Kinneddar, who formerly charged, Alexander Calder, her Fellow servant, as Father of the Child, of which she had been lately delivered. The said Margaret Fraser, professing repentance for her offence, craved that The Session would instantly appoint her to be absolved, that she might be admitted, as Sponsor for her Child, and get it baptised. The Session agreeing to this request, she was absolved accordingly and the child baptised coram, the Meeting closed with prayer.
NAS Ref: CH2/384/5/233
Kirk Session Registers are available to search at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh and at local archives throughout Scotland.
Compeared Margaret Fraser, late servant to Mr Anderson, Kinneddar, who formerly charged, Alexander Calder, her Fellow servant, as Father of the Child, of which she had been lately delivered. The said Margaret Fraser, professing repentance for her offence, craved that The Session would instantly appoint her to be absolved, that she might be admitted, as Sponsor for her Child, and get it baptised. The Session agreeing to this request, she was absolved accordingly and the child baptised coram, the Meeting closed with prayer.
NAS Ref: CH2/384/5/233
Kirk Session Registers are available to search at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh and at local archives throughout Scotland.
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