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Title: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: SOFEE on Sunday 29 December 24 18:18 GMT (UK)
(https://i.postimg.cc/4xb68MPy/Line-from-Mary-Sinclair-marriage-1821.jpg)
hello
Im looking for help to decipher the word thats underlined in red please

I think i have the rest  of it.....Mary Sinclair ? of Dunoon etc
thanks













Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word t
Post by: Tickettyboo on Sunday 29 December 24 18:21 GMT (UK)
feuar ?

Boo
Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 29 December 24 18:29 GMT (UK)
I was thinking the same, Boo.
Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: teragram31510 on Sunday 29 December 24 18:30 GMT (UK)
Could you please resend the clip with a bit more of the word in question ? I think you have cut off the top of the first letter ?

Margaret
Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: Tickettyboo on Sunday 29 December 24 18:33 GMT (UK)
I'd agree that the entire entry would help, but do think its likely to say feuar.

Definition from Scotlands People is here:

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/glossary/f

Boo
Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: teragram31510 on Sunday 29 December 24 18:40 GMT (UK)
Thank you for the definition Ticketyboo, seems to fit. I've no idea about Scottish vocabulary - but I'm still wondering about that loopy continuation (?) of the word Sinclair, if the word underlined starts with an 'f'

Margaret
Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: Tickettyboo on Sunday 29 December 24 21:17 GMT (UK)
okay, as I have a nosey streak and a shed load of credits for SP, I looked at the entry.
It reads as follows:

Dec 9th 1821 Macallum & Sinclair

Proclaimed with a view to their marriage with each other Andrew Macullum of this Parish (son of John McCallum of the Parish of of Buchanan) and Mary Sinclair, daughter of Arch. Sinclair feuar in Dunoon and the said parties were accordingly  Married on the 10th day of December 1821 years

Which clears up my hesitation about this regarding the Mary Sinclair being a feuar, as it was her father, not her.

Boo
Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: SOFEE on Sunday 29 December 24 23:56 GMT (UK)
Boo and Margaret

I think your spot on with feuar....I had just come on to show a bit more of the word as it was thought a bit was missing but by the time i got organise Boo had transcribed the whole thing

thanks so much I appreciate your help and time

Sofee
Title: Re: can anyone help decipher the word
Post by: David Boulding on Wednesday 01 January 25 13:52 GMT (UK)
feuar - a noun

    One who holds a feu.

Feuduty

Feuduties, which were payments of money due (usually annually) by a feuar to a superior, were abolished by the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc (Scotland) Act 2000. However, a former superior has a period of two years from 28 November 2004 (the date of abolition) within which to claim a compensatory payment of approximately 21 times the amount of the annual feuduty from the party who was the feuar on 28 November 2004.