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Vivienne Dunstan Oct 26, 2024

Blogging about my first find in the Scottish Privy Council Records Database: A Berwickshire ancestor imprisoned for refusing to take the oath of allegiance in 1692 https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/a-berwickshire-ancestor-imprisoned-for-refusing-to-take-the-oath-of-allegiance-in-1692/ #ScottishHistory #History #Scotland #OathOfAllegiance #SeventeenthCentury #17thCentury #Jacobite #Berwickshire #ScottishBorders #Edinburgh #ScottishPrivyCouncilRecords #ScottishPrivyCouncil

A Berwickshire ancestor imprisoned for refusing to take the oath of allegiance in 1692

Colleagues of mine at Dundee University together with academics at Stirling University have recently launched the online Scottish Privy Council Records Database, which covers the years 1692-1708. I…

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Vivienne Dunstan Oct 25, 2024

I have more serious academic research to do using the new Scottish Privy Council Records database. But I couldn't resist looking up some ancestors. Here is my 8xg-granddad, not doing too well in 1692, after refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance. https://spcr.ac.uk #SPCR #ScottishPrivyCouncilRecords #ScottishHistory #History #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Edinburgh #DH #DigitalHumanities #Databases #Genealogy #FamilyHistory