From: Ken Woodgate [mailto:Ken.woodgate@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2009 3:53 p.m. To: ABERDEEN ROOTSWEB (ABERDEEN-L@ rootsweb.com) Subject: CRATHIE OPRS -1794 The register (sighted from ScotlandsPeople) has an entry: Mar 22 Geo BROWN in Micras P.T (thats what these 'initials' appear to be) and then goes on to note mother and childs name. Any suggestions on what the 'P.T.' ? might mean? There is another entry (totally unrelated to the Brown above) on the same page where place Torgalter also has the P.T.? noted. No other entries on the page have this addition/. Ta Ken Woodgate New Zealand

Ken Woodgate wrote: >The register (sighted from ScotlandsPeople) has an entry: > > > Mar 22 Geo BROWN in Micras P.T (thats what these 'initials' appear to be) >and then goes on to note mother and childs name. > > >Any suggestions on what the 'P.T.' ? might mean? > > >There is another entry (totally unrelated to the Brown above) on the same >page where place Torgalter also has the P.T.? noted. > > >No other entries on the page have this addition/. > I realise you have viewed this online, so cannot browse the adjacent pages, but I would be interested to know whether the same annotation appears elsewhere in the Register and/or with other locations. On the 1st Ed OS map, West Micras and Torgalter lie quite close to each other, so "P.T." may apply to the area where they are. Alternatively, it might be an abbreviation for the Latin "Pro Tempore", meaning "for the time being". I haven't come across this before, but it is not unusual to see the date given in the OPRs as "E.D." which is "Eodem Die", meaning "on the same day". But that is a bit of a long shot. Gavin Bell