My gt. gt. grandmother Isabella Smith made an "irregular" marriage to James Watson on the 8.11.1832 and were rebuked before the session at Hutton , had their marriage confirmed and paid a fee/fine of 2s1d. Sadly James was killed in an accident at Huton Miller Bridge in Aug. 1836, and on March 21st 1839 "Widow" Watson married Robert Allan, again irregularly. This time they were rebuked before the session 5 months later on Aug. 25th and fined the enormous sum of 6s2d. Perhaps not surprisingly none of their subsquent children were baptised at Hutton church, although Isabella's previous children had been.Robert died in 1898 and Isabella in 1904 both in Paxton village where they had lived all their lives. I knew there would be no stone but consulted the burial registers at Dunns to find out where they lay, only to find no entries at all for 1898 and no evidence that either had been buried! They aren't at Ladykirk either. So can anyone tell me what exactly an irregular marriage was, and why they bothered when they had to face rebukes and fines. If there would be other records of baptisms in the 1840s and what happened to the bodies? Sloppy book-keeping or what? Hope someone will enlighten me.There is a photo of Isabella taken about 1902 looking very stern, but it's nice to know she was quite a lass and cocked a snook at the establishment! Mary N.