Incest or just being polite.....

[Anne H]

Bannans Land would just have been the name of the building where they lived. There's lots of "housing estates" called "something or other" Land in Coatbridge. I was born in Stuart's Land, Coatdyke, Coatbridge and they were the big brown stone buildings where you went up the close in order to gain entry to the many houses that were there.

Regards,
Anne H

[Merlot]

Hi,

There is also Buchanan St. Bannans Land. There may be more buildings with the name Bannan but at least having street names gives you an idea of where to look on the map.

Merlot

[derekfrom france]

hi on some bc the word illegitimate was not used but written in thick
pen a word starting with B+ending withD i know that for one family it came as a terrible shock on their fathers death they found his bc

[DavidWW]

hi on some bc the word illegitimate was not used but written in thick
pen a word starting with B+ending withD i know that for one family it came as a terrible shock on their fathers death they found his bc

I've never seen the use of b*****d on a Scottish birth entry, - only ever illegitimate, as that was laid down clearly in the standard instructions to registrars.

B******y or, correctly in Scottish terminology, illegitimacy, was nothing like so serious as in England, as, in Scots Law, the subsequent marriage of the parents automatically legimitated the previous birth, always assuming that the parents were free to marry at the time of the birth (some authorities argue time of conception!).

Things were different in the OPR, however, and phrases such as "begotten in fornication" and similar are not unusual

David