Hi Irene I have learned through my research that if a Farquharson married they didn't seem to register the birth of their children. Alexanders parents were David Watson and Jean Bowman both are buried in the Kirrieumir cemetary. David was a cattle dealer. I know that Janets parents were a William Farquharson and Ann Finlay? William was a weaver. Have you any info on these ones. Margie ----- Original Message ----- From: <IPollands@aol.com> To: <angus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [ANGUS] Watson,Lyall,Finlay > > Sorry, but I don't have anything on either of those Watson families in > Kirriemuir. I haven't been able to find them there on the 1851 census, so > I > wonder if the whole family moved to Dundee by then, since that is where > David > married. > > The only thing I found was on the IGI that Alexander Watson married I. > Farquharson in Kirriemuir in July 1824. I suspect that it was a J. > Farquharson > which was extracted as an I. So they were in Kirriemuir about that time, > just no record of any births/christenings to them. > > Irene > **************An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy > Steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221322979x1201367215/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=Jun > eExcfooterNO62) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Margaret Shane wrote: >Hi Irene >I have learned through my research that if a Farquharson married they didn't >seem to register the birth of their children. > I suspect this was quite a common thing. It was theoretically obligatory to register both baptisms and marriages, but there was no system of sanctions in place to enforce it (unlike Civil Registration from 1855). And while there was an obvious advantage to a couple in registering their marriage - it kept the busybodies of the Kirk Session off your back - there was no equivalent advantage in registering a baptism. There are numerous instance in the "New Statistical Account" of ministers complaining that people were failing to register their baptisms, but I know of no instance of a minister claiming that couples were failing to register their marriages. Gavin Bell