George Glasgow: Mid Calder baptism, not a testament
NRS Old Parish Registers, Births, Mid Calder 694/10, register page 7; supplied ScotlandsPeople image headed 17/02/1605
Reviewed: 2026-09-10
LLM-assisted working reading. Brackets/ellipses mark uncertainty or omissions; not a diplomatic edition.

IMAGE / PASSAGE OPR page 7, target entry only
1. xvij feb[ruar?]
2. James glasgow in muirestoun[?] ane bairne baptizit namit george . W. Georg
3. glasgow Johne smyth Wm[?] [illegible]

MODERN INTERPRETATION
Under 17 February, the register records a child named George being baptised to James Glasgow, whose residence is provisionally read as Muirestoun. The witnesses include George Glasgow and John Smith; the remaining name is unresolved.
This is a baptism entry among other baptisms and marriages. It contains no testament, inventory, estate administration or death statement. The mother's name is not supplied in this entry.

EVIDENCE
Target entry, lines 1-3: the source type is positively identified by both the ScotlandsPeople header and the wording 'ane bairne baptizit namit george'. It must not be catalogued as a 1605 testament merely because it was filed under testaments/Edinburgh/.
Target entry, line 2: James Glasgow is the named parent in the register's baptism formula. The witness George Glasgow is separately named and must not be substituted for the parent or assigned a grandfather relationship.
The local public registry contains Glasgow-1082, George Glasgow, labelled 17 February 1605 at Mid Calder. This is a strong correspondence of name, date and parish; the date is a baptism date in this supplied record, not an independently stated birth date.

CHANGES
No george-1605 testament attempt exists in research/transcriptions/index.json. This is a newly classified baptism source, not an additional will.
The existing public registry describes 17 February 1605 as the life-start date; this image specifically supports baptism on that date.
Fresh full-page and entry-level rereading confirms the James-parent/George-witness distinction; the residence and final witness remain unresolved rather than forced from context.

UNRESOLVED
Confirm the residence spelling muirestoun[?] and the final witness name against other entries in the same register hand.
No mother, actual birth date or relationship between the witness George Glasgow and the child is stated.