help deciphering witnesses name on Dundee OPR baptismal entry please

[hebbie72]

This has stumped me. 2nd entry from top is the baptism of Elizabeth daughter of John Boog, shoemaker, and his wife Ann Reid in Dec 1805. Helpfully at this time in Dundee's record-keeping there was a "named after" column with almost all the children christened having the same Christian name as the witness. I can read the "E" in the witness name for the Boog entry but the surname has stumped me. The only known surnames in earlier generations of this family was Reid itself, and on the father's side Bog(g)/Bogue/Boag/Boig or Bogie and Yoolie/Yule. I don't think it is any of these surnames. My limited software doesn't seem to have a facility to make the image "negative" which has sometimes made writing more legible on an earlier computer. Many thanks in advance for any guesses hazarded!
best wishes,
George

[scotmum]

Depends which method of viewing you are using on scotlandspeople but can you see any of the following when you view the record there:

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Static/JavaApplet/daeja_manual/olmanual12.html

If yes, you could try adjusting the image with same.

If this doesn't help and no one here can read the writing either, you could request a potentially clearer image via scotlandspeople 'illegible images' contact form.

[Isabel H]

I've inverted it to see if it helps.

To me it looks like E.C. Mack

[orkrad]

 Is it possibly E Clark

Orkrad

[Istrice]

Hi hebbie72,

I think the first name is John Boag, rather than Boog, the two middle letters differing slightly.  The second name, I would interpret as "E. Pollock".
Good luck with your search.

Istrice