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[Adrian Smith]

Itinerant??

[Maggie.]

Now there's a thought Adrian - it does look a bit like Itinerant. 
However I have checked on the original and there doesn't seem to be a 't' at the end of the word - the word finishes exactly as reproduced above - Smith itineran    
In fact if it is Itineran(t), what does that make the Smit(h) ?


Maggie

[Gadget]

There's no i before the tin either - it's just the down stroke of the h 

[Maggie.]

Same thought Gadget - you posted whilst I was modifying to say the same thing 

[JAP]

Are there any upper case 'T's on the rest of the page?  I'm not convinced by tinman.  I think it's more likely to be a place; is it perhaps usual on the page to have the occupation followed by the place?

It might start with 'N' or 'K' - or even 'R'.

I'm leaning towards Roucan, which is a farm in Torthorwald.
Many many people of various occupations there in 1841.
And a Google finds deaths/wills of NICHOLSONs there in the 1700s.

JAP

[Gadget]

There's an upper case T on the next line JAP - Thos Wilson


I first of all thought it might be Ken something but decided it was tin......


Gadget

Addded - Maggie , do you have any other baptisms/ marriages of this couple where more info might be obtained.

[JenB]

I can't make out the word in question...but I don't think it starts with a 't'.

My initial instinct on seeing this was that the occupation was 'smith' and the next word was a place-name.

Is it possible to post a slightly larger view of the register or of a different part of the same page to compare letters?

Jennifer

[Gadget]

I'll try and enlarge the one that I put up for Maggie

[JAP]

Yes, of course there is; I'd even checked out Barbara WILSON, daughter of Thomas in order to find the
year (1787).  And had found that, unfortunately, it's one of those online females-only IGI batches.

That upper case 'T' in the WILSON line is, to my eyes, nothing like the first letter of the word
after Smith in the NICHOLSON line.

The more I look at it, the more convinced I am that it is Roucan - but of course I could be wrong.

Maggie, there's a Will for a John NICHOLSON in Roucan, Dumfries Commissary Court, 1815 - might be
worth checking out?  (On SP it's listed as Roncan and as Dumfries Sheriff Court).

JAP