Re: Help needed reading text

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:56:53 GMT, "Astral Voyager"
<nobody.home@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Richard van Schaik" <f.m.a.vanschaikREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


???? Campbell, Esquire Advocate, Sheriff of Dumfries and

Gary

Actually 'Vary'. As subsequently found from the 1891 & 1901 Scotland census.

Galloway: ????????? the Executrix within designed, who

compeard (likely meant as something like appeared). In dutch texts there
is is a lot of "compareerden" or the like, all meant as "appeared" (before
me)

I'll have to look that one up.

Compeared = compelled/required to appear (as often found in Kirk
Session records). In the context of an executry it is IMU usually to
be understood as the person's presence not being made by legal
compulsion (as with e.g. a witness citation) but by necessity so that
the deceased's estate can be dealt with in accordance with the usual
procedures.
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