In the autumn of 1661, the ecclesiastical and judicial landscape of East Lothian turned its attention toward the parish of Ormiston, Haddington, where Jean Getgood was identified as a subject of formal legal scrutiny. On 6 September 1661, Jean was entered into the official register under case reference C/EGD/1380, marking the initiation of proceedings against her. As a documented resident of the parish, she was subject to the intensifying social and judicial pressures that defined this period of Scottish history, during which local communities and kirk sessions frequently engaged in the identification and examination of those suspected of maleficium or diabolical pacts.
Following the initial record of her case, Jean proceeded to trial under the reference T/JO/813. While the administrative documentation confirms the legal pathway taken in this matter, the surviving trial notes provide no further elaboration on the specific allegations, testimonies, or the ultimate verdict delivered by the court. Consequently, Jean remains a figure defined by the brief, cold certainty of archival notation, representing the thousands of individuals whose lives intersected with the Scottish witch trials during the mid-seventeenth century.