That may well be - but in this case, I think it is a typesetter's mistake for "can"! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jane Houghton (VGT) Sent: 17 April 2014 13:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Carlisle Journal, BMD, 05 Apr 1845 (2) The word con is an old way of saying know ( connen .....old English) A similar word is ken as in Do you ken John Peel...... Sent from my iPad > On 17 Apr 2014, at 13:05, "Petra Mitchinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Saturday 05 Apr 1845 (p. 3, col. 6-7) > > > Deaths. > > At Innerwell, on the 24th ult., Mr. John PAGAN, tacksman of the Earl of Galloway's stake net fishery, Bay of Wigtown, in the 79th > year of his age. The deceased had been long a fisher in the Solway Frith; and, from lenthened [sic] experience and acute > observation, understood surpassingly the various phases of the tidal flow and ebb, with many other pecularities incident to the > inner waters of the South of Scotland. For a number of years the deceased rented the farm of Corbelly, with its coast fishery, > parish of Newabbey; and, for more revolving summers than we con [sic] enumerate, was seen, as duly as the hour came round, once or > twice a-week at our Mid-Steeple. That possession, however, he resigned on the termination of the law plea against stake nets in the > Nith; and shortly afterwards removed to Innerwell, near Garliestown, where he persevered as long as he was able in the same course > of untiring industry. Mr. PAGAN was in every respect a superior man, of great shrewdness and force of character, and, although > unlettered in the proper sense of the word, had acquired, from reading, observation, and reflection, a measure of useful, compact, > general knowledge, which mediocrity, with all its aids, toils after in vain. The remains of our old friend, borne in a hearse a > distance of seventy miles, were interred at Newabbey, on Friday last, in presence of not a few old parishioners, natives of > Dumfries, and other localities-his son-in-law and grandsons acting as chief mourners. >