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/43 Elizabeth Roy

related case
C/EGD/54
Given first name
Bessie
Given last name
Roy
Title
no information
Alias
no information
Sex
Female
Age
no information
Occupation
Nurse
Marital Status
no information
Ethnic origin
no information
Socioeconomic status
Lower
Notes
Nurse to the Laird of Boquhane, is this a wet nurse? She was picking lint with other women. She had been living with a man for 12 years, he was perhaps her common law husband. She was a servant to Leslie and Achinleck who consulted her for witchcraft.
family of the accused
named relationship age occupation
No family members recorded

Locale

Settlement
Fetterneir
Parish
Fetternear
Presbytery
Garioch
County
Aberdeen
Burgh
no information
national grid reference
no information
related trials
trial reference trial type trial year trial place
T/LA/910 Central Court 1590 Edinburgh