In 1702, a woman identified in the court records as Lady Tonderghee was brought before the authorities in the parish of Minnigaff, located within the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. The circumstances surrounding her appearance remain tethered to the unique designation by which she is recorded; historical consensus suggests that "Lady Tonderghee" was likely a sobriquet or nickname rather than a formal title or baptismal name. The archival entry for her case, cataloged under reference C/EGD/2436, marks her as a subject of the Scottish judicial process during a period when the legal pursuit of witchcraft remained a presence in the local courts.
Because the historical record regarding Tonderghee is limited to these specific archival notations, the precise nature of the accusations levied against her remains unstated in the extant documentation. While subsequent scholars, such as Christina Larner, have made reference to this individual in their research into the witch trials of early modern Scotland, the specific details of her interrogation or the eventual outcome of her case are not reflected in the available primary source summaries. Thus, Tonderghee exists in the historical register as a testament to the brief but formal record-keeping of a seventeenth-century judicial proceeding in Galloway.