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Notes for Agnes Ligo
See the note on her husband’s identification and then bless the Scots habit of always giving the maiden name of spouses.

No baptism found for her from 1735 to 1755.

There is a second child of her name, in 1761, a Patrick to a Patrick Bartleman:

27/12/1761 BARTLEMAN PATRICK PATRICK BARTLEMAN/AGNES LIGO FR230 (FR230) M GLADSMUIR /EAST LOTHIAN 708/00 0010 0287
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But from Family Search there are four births to a mother with the name of Agnes Ligo:

Birth date   Child’s name       Location       County         Father             Mother

23 Dec 1761  Patrick Bartleman  Gladsmuir      East Lothian   Patrick Bartleman  Agnes Ligo

18 Sep 1764  Marion Barclayman  North Berwick  East Lothian   Peter Barclayman   Agnes Ligo

1 Apr 1767  George Barclayman  North Berwick  East Lothian   Peter Barclayman   Agnes Ligo

22 Aug 1771  William Bartleman  Dirleton       East Lothian   Peter Bartleman    Agnes Ligo

In those days not everyone could read and write and local accents were far more pronounced and distinctive than they are now.  It may well be that the people entering the parish records had difficulty understanding what was said to them, they could not ask the adult to spell their name as he or she did not know that.  So the questions about the above four births are;

1. Was ‘Agnes Ligo’ just one and the same mother?

2. Were the fathers all the same man?

3. What might we suppose the father’s name was?

4. Might it be that no-one knew what the father’s name was because it sounded so different to each hearer?

(Think of the “Fork Handles” sketch by the two Ronnies)
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No marriage can be found for her.

But there is this marriage of her otherwise unknown daughter Jean:

Name Alexander Ramsay
Spouse's Name Jean Bartleman
Event Date 28 Jun 1783
Event Place Haddington,East Lothian,Scotland
Father's Name George Ramsay
Mother's Name Isobell Parkie
Spouse's Father's Name Peter Bartleman
Spouse's Mother's Name Agnes Ligo
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Armorial Blazon notes for Agnes Ligo
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Last Modified 13 May 2017Created 14 May 2022 by Tim Powys-Lybbe
Re-created by Tim Powys-Lybbe on 14 May 20220