Help reading a word please

[Kit]

Mary Wood/Adam (https://screenshots.firefox.com/Syypa8ESp6fkqJSF/www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk)

Mary Wood relict of _____ John Adam merchant.

what is the word I left out please?

[maggie_4_7]

Mary Wood/Adam (https://screenshots.firefox.com/Syypa8ESp6fkqJSF/www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk)

Mary Wood relict of _____ John Adam merchant.

what is the word I left out please?

Well what ever it is they have used it in all three entries.

[Kit]

For those women whose husbands were still alive it just had their name ie John Smoth, not that word as well. Of course it might be a title or something and the women who were widows were wealthier, or maybe poorer, than the married women who died.

Side note - I do think my woman was not poor, at least. There seems to be some money and the Adam family is apparently an old family, in a book I read.

[Janet]

Do you think it could be a possibly shortened form of this word umquhill?

http://www.scottishhandwriting.com/cmpsscot.asp
Common Scots words occurring are umquhill = deceased , relict = widow, compeared = appeared before a court.

[Kit]

It could be Janet but would it have been necessary? She is the relict so that says he is dead.

[kiterunner]

It is umqll short for umquhill / umquhile, or however you like to spell it. I suppose they didn't mind a bit of redundancy in their records!

[Kit]

Thanks Kate. Sorry I forgot to check if anyone had an answer.