The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft

1563-1736

By Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, January 2003


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Accused Details

A/EGD/1711 Margaret Abernethy

related case
C/EGD/1727
Given first name
Margaret
Given last name
Abernethy
Title
no information
Alias
no information
Sex
Female
Age
no information
Occupation
no information
Marital Status
Widowed
Ethnic origin
no information
Socioeconomic status
Lower
Notes
She may have been middling at some point, her husband was indweller in Aberdeen. But witnesses in the trial of Geillis Burnet (c/egd/584) described her as a 'poor woman' who often begged for alms.
family of the accused
named relationship age occupation
None Monro Husband None None

Locale

Settlement
no information
Parish
no information
Presbytery
Aberdeen
County
Aberdeen
Burgh
Aberdeen
national grid reference
no information
related trials
trial reference trial type trial year trial place
T/JO/641 Local Court None
T/LA/1154 Mentioned in trial None