In the summer of 1650, the legal machinery of early modern Scotland turned toward a woman identified as Margaret Dunkalow, a resident of the burgh of Haddington. On June 26, Margaret appeared in the official records under case file C/JO/2701, marking the beginning of a formal process that would see her grouped with three other unnamed individuals. In the context of mid-17th-century East Lothian, such collective proceedings were not uncommon, as authorities often processed multiple suspects simultaneously during periods of heightened judicial scrutiny.
While the archival documentation for Margaret remains sparse, the records confirm that her case proceeded to trial under reference number T/JO/149. Despite the brevity of the surviving notes, these entries preserve her presence within the administrative history of the 1563–1736 witch trials. Margaret serves as a representative figure of those whose involvement in these historic legal proceedings is recorded only in the ledger, leaving the specific nature of the allegations against her to remain lost to the passage of time.