Her brother promised to give Elizabeth five thousands merks as a tocher.

Marriages, particularly higher in society, were often political in nature and the subject of complex negotiations over the tocher (dowry).

Not at the torch-wielding Justin, but at Tocher.

A dowry (also known as trousseau or tocher) is the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her new husband.

Since his retirement from hockey, Tocher is now a police officer in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.

"With Her Tocher What a Lassie"

Janet Menzies had married a Stewart about a century earlier, and Garth claimed the lands as part of her tocher, or dowry.

Keith Douglas "Toch" Tocher (1921-1981) was a computer scientist known for contributions to computer simulation.

Our Aberdeen office, which recently celebrated ten years offshore, has Divisional Director Lindsay Tocher at the helm.

The land in question was part of Eva's tocher (dowry) and is known to be Falside from the rubric on King William's charter.

Lindsay Tocher has been promoted to director of CCG's Aberdeen and Offshore Division.

Kirsteen McCue reflects on the comic bawdry of Robert Burns's songs, in 'My Tocher's the Jewel'.

Jimmy Reid, Cyril Morton and John Tocher had all been members of the Political Committee, playing a crucial role in determining the direction of the party.

Named for its creators (Sweeney, Robertson, and Tocher), SRT division is a popular method for division in many microprocessor implementations.

This was taken over by K. D. Tocher and incorporated into ICCE, the Imperial College Computing Engine based on the same technology.

She went up to Meg Havilland in the Five and Dime, introduced herself to the cousins in church, sent invitations tocher baby's christening all behind Harry's back, mind you.

The School publishes the journal Scottish Studies (1957-), the magazine Tocher (excerpts from the Archives), and a disc and cassette series entitled Scottish Tradition.

Lindsay Tocher, Aberdeen and Offshore director, said: 'Although the company has been involved with BP on major offshore contracts for many years, this is our first offshore contract.

Tocher skated with the Niagara Falls Thunder in 1991, skating on a team with future NHL players Ethan Moreau and Manny Legace.

In 1976, four of the party's top engineering activists resigned: Bernard Panter, Cyril Morton, Jimmy Reid and John Tocher, who had all been members of the Political Committee.

Tocher split time between the Colorado Gold Kings and the Fresno Falcons of the WCHL during the 2001-02 season, and returned to his hometown of Hamilton shortly after.

The marriage alliance was also a commercial contract involving the exchange of livestock, money and land through payments in which the bride was known as the tocher and the groom was known as the dowry.

The offshore team are nearing completion of their operations manual, which reflects tremendous efforts by Lindsay Tocher, the entire offshore management team and Annette Aitkin, with the guidance of Bob Rae.

In February 2012, Constable Ryan Tocher has once again been named the subject officer by the province's Special Investigations Unit in relation to a fatal Hamilton shooting (he was the shooter) .

CHAPTER XLIV KIRSTY'S TOCHER The next morning, Kirsty told her parents that she was going to marry Francie.