I thought this might be of interest: >From baptismal records of Logie Easter, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland 1788 "On Thursday the 17th July by 5 o'clock of the morning there was found by Donald McKensie Gardener at Scotsburn a male child laid on the threshold of the main door of the house of Scotsburn; immediately thereafter there was a minute search made among the unmarried women of this and Rosskeen parishes in order to discover the mother & a guinea of reward ordered and promised to any person that would give information that would lead to her discovery, but as all the trouble & pains that Elders & Midwives were at did not discover her, the session ordered him to be baptised on the 21st and gave him the name Nicholas and engaged David Munro's wife at Scotsburn to nurse him for a Guinea wages & a boll of meal a Quarter with payment for his necessary clothing." I can just imagine those elders and midwives! And why only the unmarried women?