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Hello Annette,

I agree with you.

I looked at the full page and saw other children born to families living at the Ness.  My partner thinks that perhaps the pen 'malfunctioned' so that the strokes on the ts didn't show up or else the pries wrote in a hurry.

Then I tried to work out what it could mean and found this:

Originally known as An Rudha, "the point" or "the Ness", Invergordon received its name from Sir William Gordon, a local landowner of the early eighteenth century. For centuries the estate on which Invergordon now stands was known as Inverbreakie (the mouth of the Breakie); the Breakie presumably being the stream which enters the Firth at Rosskeen Bridge near the old parish church.

(Source: http://www.invergordon.info/OurHistory accessed 23 July 2016)

So thank you, Annette: I'm so glad I decided to post my problem here!

Kirk

Hello fellow Rootschatters,
I was looking at some Scottish baptism records for Rosskeen and found an ancestor's occupation listed as what looks like 'pensioner auto ness' but I have no idea as to what this means.

The whole records reads as follows:

James, son to James Tweedie Pensioner auto Ness and Isabel Ross his wife was born 21 Feb and bapt 10 March.

I realise that what I am reading as 'auto ness' might be something else but it is definitely 'auto' and possibly 'ness'.  Perhaps other have come across an expression that  is similar?

James Tweedie senior was a tailor by profession and later moved to London.

Is anyone able to help?

Kind regards

Kirk

Thanks Margaret and Beds. Boy,

This is my research on Sarah. 

According to her, she was born in Buckden.  She married Robert Cook in St Neots in 1809.  They had various children: John, Ann, Thomas, Susannah (all born at St Neots) and Sarah born 1820 at Caxton.  Robert was dead by 1841 and Sarah lived for a while in Royston with her married daughter Susannah before returning to Caxton with her youngest daughter, Sarah who I think eventually married.  At first she lived with some of her children and their families in a place called 'The Warren' in Caxton.  But as the years passed she ended up on her own. 
Poor and with little in the way of skills Sarah lived at a cottage in High Street, Caxton for many years on parochial relief before dying in 1878 at the Union Workhouse in Caxton, aged about ninety - although her death certificate states ninety-four.

I have her death certificate but not her burial record  as I didn't have time to look at Caxton records for Cook. I'm fairly certain she was buried in the Parish Churchyard and I am thinking that perhaps her husband died in Caxton as well.  This is something for me to investigate.

Bye for now,

Kirk

Thank you Margaret,  that's very interesting.  Although it isn't conclusive proof that John Roberts and Sarah Dixon are the parents of my Sarah, the names John, Sarah and Susannah are to be found amongst her children and so there might be a link/.
The marriage of John Roberts and Sarah Dixon in 1785 are consistent with them being possible parents of my Sarah who was born in c. 1785/6.
If you have any Roberts burials in Buckden - they might prove informative.
Are there any births for Robert as a surname?
Thank you once again Margaret.
Kind regards
Kirk