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From: "Alan Mitchell" <>
Subject: Re: Kirk Session records
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:42:28 +0100


I have in a book so you must be correct <VBG>

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry

Compear ( as of defender) - Appear in an action, To appear before the Kirk
Session for censure.

It does not mention fornication in particular <G>

Alan Mitchell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Stiedl <>
To: <>
Date: 14 April 1999 20:30
Subject: Re: Kirk Session records

>Hello Nan,
>
>This is hardly a speedy reply to your query, but I'm just getting caught
>up with things after being away for a fortnight at Easter. At any rate,
>I haven't seen any other reply on the list.
>
>My reading of "compeared" is that it just means "appeared" (before the
>Kirk Session) - those who "compeared" usually being parishioners who had
>been summoned to be questioned about and rebuked for fornication.
>Sometimes they - or more usually the man - had to be summoned a few
>times if he was reluctant to admit to being the father of a child a girl
>had had "in uncleanliness". In your example both parties seem to have
>appeared willingly.
>
>Cheers,
>Anne
>
> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone explain the word 'compeared' which I found in the Coylton Kirk
>> session minutes for 1838?
>> <<Compeared Archibald Kennedy in Knockshoggleholm and Marion Robertson at
>> Gadgirth Bridge agreeably to appointment. >>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Nan
>>
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