> "Elizabeth GALL, presently residing in Edinburgh, daughter of > the late Mrs > Elizabeth CRAIK or LYALL" who received a chest of drawers and > 1/15th of > the estate. Is this a transcription? Could the surname actually have been Lyall rather than Gall? It would not be difficult to write 'Ly' in such a way that it could be misread as 'G'. I suggest you have a(nother) look at the handwritten original document. Anne