I have a John Burt (or maybe father and son) as witnesses at the following baptisms (mother and daughter) in Dunfermline. The Burt and Shipherd/Shephird etc families were probalby friends, or maybe John Burt was an elder in the Kirk.
November 1739 Baptism
William Shephird, in Casestock had a woman Child, born to him, of his wife, Margaret Tulloch, the 11:th and Baptized the 22nd Called, Janet Witnesses John Burt & Will: Trotter
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Register of Baptisms Aug 1776
Robert Thomson Collier at Berilaw & his wife Janet Shipherd had a Daughter born 13th August and baptised the 25th named Elspeth
Witnesses John Burt & John Shiperd at Berrilaw