Katherine Glasgow, 1605 testament confirmation
NRS CC9/7/4, images 6-7
Reviewed: 2026-09-10
LLM-assisted working reading. Brackets/ellipses mark uncertainty or omissions; not a diplomatic edition.

IMAGE / PASSAGE NRS image 6 / PDF page 1, entry opening at foot
1. [Preceding estate and its confirmation excluded.]
2. The testament dative and Inventar of the
3. [illegible] guidis geir dettis and sowmes of money [illegible]
4. vmqle Katherine glasgow spous to thomas wir [illegible]
5. parochin of steinstoun Quha deceist in the [illegible]
6. moneth of Januar 1603 zeiris faithfullie maid and [illegible]
7. vp be the said thomas wir hir spous In name [illegible]
8. of William James and Jonet[?] wir [illegible] dative decernit

IMAGE / PASSAGE NRS image 7 / PDF page 2, continuation and inventory
1. [Opening continuation partly washed out: illegible.]
2. Inventar
3. Item the said vmqle Katherine [illegible] the tyme
4. of hir deceis [illegible] of the prices [illegible]
5. [illegible] ane gray hors price therof [amount illegible]
6. ane auld blak meir[?] price therof [amount illegible] Item tua ky
7. price of the pece [amount illegible] Summa [amount illegible] Item ane stirk[?] [illegible]
8. [illegible] Item in the barne & barnzaird [illegible] aittis price
9. of the boll [amount illegible] Summa [amount illegible]
10. [illegible] Item [illegible] firlott [illegible]
11. Summa [amount illegible] Item the insicht of hir hous with the abulzementis
12. of hir bodie estimat worth [amount illegible]
13. Summa of the Inventar foirsaid [amount illegible]
14. Na dettis awand In
15. Dettis awand Out
16. Item awand be hir to James [illegible] for maill
17. of martimes the said 1603 zeiris [amount illegible] Item to Mr alexr campbell[?]
18. minister at steinstoun [illegible] the said zeir ij bollis
19. [illegible] price of the boll [amount illegible] Summa [amount illegible]
20. [illegible]
21. Item to archibald [surname illegible]
22. [illegible]
23. Item to Johne [surname illegible] in [place illegible] for
24. [illegible] Item to Johne [surname illegible] for [illegible] of the said
25. [illegible] Item to Jonet [surname illegible] servand the said
26. zeir of fee [amount illegible]
27. Summa of the dettis out [amount illegible]
28. [illegible] dettis excedunt bona

IMAGE / PASSAGE NRS image 7 / PDF page 2, confirmation
1. At glasgow the nynt day of may 1605 zeiris I Robert
2. [surname and designation not confidently deciphered in this pass] commissar of glasgow constitut be
3. [illegible] eftir dew warning maid be edict oppinly [illegible]
4. [illegible] Be the tennour heirof ratifeis approvis and confirmis
5. this present testament and Inventar In sa far as the samyn is
6. [illegible] and trewlie gevin vp [illegible] And gevis and committis
7. [illegible] and intromissioun with the guidis and geir abonewrittin
8. [illegible]
9. [illegible] executouris dativis minori-
10. tie [illegible] Craufurd in Glen
11. cautioun that the guidis & geir salbe furthcumand to all [illegible]
12. [illegible]
13. [Following Malcolm Boyd testament excluded.]

MODERN INTERPRETATION
Katherine Glasgow is identified as the spouse of Thomas Weir in Stevenston parish. The opening gives her death in January 1603, not on the subsequent probate date. Thomas supplied the account on behalf of William, James and probably Jonet Weir; the confirmation refers to the executors’ minority. This does not by itself explicitly state their parentage.
The estate inventory includes horses, cattle, oats and household or personal belongings. There are no debts owing into the estate. Outgoing obligations include rent, a payment connected with the minister at Stevenston and servants’ fees. The debts exceed the assets. Unread sums and creditor names must not be treated as a completed financial or kinship reconstruction.
The confirmation states “the nynt day of may 1605”: 9 May 1605. This fresh reading resolves the previous apparent disagreement with the printed calendar and Findmypast index.

EVIDENCE
Image 6, opening lines 3–7: spouse Thomas Weir, Stevenston parish and January 1603 death are directly supported.
Image 7, confirmation line 1: “the nynt day of may 1605” supports 9 May 1605. The prior [26?]/[xxvj?] reading is superseded.
Image 6 opening and image 7 confirmation: the named representatives/executors and minority do not constitute an explicit statement that all three were the couple’s children. That proposed relationship remains an inference.
Image 7 accounting section: household goods, external obligations and servants’ wages are estate evidence, not evidence that creditors or cautioners were relatives.

CHANGES
Expanded the former three-line selection into a working reading of opening, inventory, debts and confirmation across both supplied pages.
Corrected disputed [26?] May confirmation to 9 May from the written ordinal nynt, independently of the index.
Separated neighboring estates from Katherine’s entry. Retained rather than silently overwrote the preceding selective review in previous_selective_review.
Did not carry uncertain creditor surnames, monetary totals or the commissary’s full name from the earlier polished transcript into fresh literal readings.
Fresh full-page rereading retains the three minor Weirs as estate representatives without a visible child term; Thomas Weir's husband role and the 9 May 1605 confirmation remain secure.

UNRESOLVED
Several inventory quantities, prices and names remain undeciphered.
Jonet’s forename remains qualified; no clear parent-child term was recovered in the washed opening continuation.
Readability of the commission and cautioner’s full name remains insufficient for an independent fresh transcription of every word.