Christian Umpharstoun, a married woman of middling socioeconomic status residing in the burgh of Haddington, became entangled in the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials during the summer of 1661. Records from the Register of the Privy Council identify her husband as a local tailor, situating Christian within the established professional and social fabric of the town. Her involvement in the legal proceedings began on June 13, 1661, marking the start of a process that would ultimately bring her before the courts.
Following the initial record of her case (C/EGD/20), Christian was subjected to formal trial proceedings documented under references T/JO/1040 and T/JO/1705. These entries signify her navigation through the rigorous and often protracted judicial investigations characteristic of the period. While the archival evidence is strictly delineated by these administrative markers, they delineate the trajectory of a woman from Haddington whose life was temporarily defined by the intense legal scrutiny of the late seventeenth-century Scottish justice system.