In 1598 she organised the baptism of the child of a woman in Ellon parish, Elizabeth Burn from the Yett of Birness. Wood told her to take the baby to "the burn next to Barrowley" near Buffel Hill, where a man dressed in black plaid performed the ceremony.Christine Peters, Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640 (Bloomsbury, 2017), p. 141: See also, Catherine McMillan, 'Scho refuseit altogidder to heir his voce: Women and Catholic Recusancy in North East Scotland, 1560-1610', Scottish Church History (June 2016), p. 40, citing CH2/146/1/36, 16 May 1599.
