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/678 Margaret Anderson

related case
C/EGD/689
Given first name
Margaret
Given last name
Anderson
Title
no information
Alias
no information
Sex
Female
Age
no information
Occupation
no information
Marital Status
Widowed
Ethnic origin
no information
Socioeconomic status
no information
Notes
The text says 'brinstoun', but as she was in a group of people from Crichton and Humbie, I could only find the very close reference to the birns water in Humbie. I chose Humbie. Also, she was described as being from Ormiston in another document (JC26/49).
family of the accused
named relationship age occupation
Warich Thomas Husband None None

Locale

Settlement
Birnstown
Parish
Humbie
Presbytery
Haddington
County
Haddington
Burgh
no information
national grid reference
no information
related trials
trial reference trial type trial year trial place
T/LA/1434 Mentioned in trial None
T/LA/834 Central Court 1678 Edinburgh