> past). The Minister might have recorded what he'd > done in his own registers, you'd have to track them > down and check. It might be worth contacting the > Northumberland FHS as a starting point. if they were married in a Scottish church, which was often the case, they'll have been recorded in the normal way - if the records survive there was a 3rd way, Marriage by Declaration, which involved making your vows/promises of marriage in front of witnesses. that wouldn;t normally have been recorded but was just as 'lawfull' in a legal sense in Scotland. it was only the church who didn;t recognise such marriages. it happened a great deal up here till the ceation of Registry office marriages to get around the problem of keeping track of marriages, but i suspect folk crossing the border would head for the church they recognised. a lot would depend perhaps on their reasons for choosing to wed north of the border. le durachd fionnghal ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html
Hi fionnnghal and others - I have enjoyed reading about irregular marriages on this list. Thank you for giving me new general information about some of these Border marriages. I now think my own ancestors Andrew Scott & Joan Hope must have had an irregular marriage. Andrew Scott b <1777> Melrose; d bef 1855 Joan Hope b 1777 Morebatttle (LDS record); d 26 Jun 1855 Cavers (her d Cert,) For years I've searched for a regular/or irregular marriage for my ancestors whose 8 children were born in & around Melrose in the early part of the 1800's to no avail. Would you please tell me how I might go about looking for an irregular marriage for these two? Thank you very much for any help at all. Joan Fraser Santa Rosa, CA fionnghal nicphadraig <fionnghalnicphadraig@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > past). The Minister might have recorded what he'd > done in his own registers, you'd have to track them > down and check. It might be worth contacting the > Northumberland FHS as a starting point. if they were married in a Scottish church, which was often the case, they'll have been recorded in the normal way - if the records survive there was a 3rd way, Marriage by Declaration, which involved making your vows/promises of marriage in front of witnesses. that wouldn;t normally have been recorded but was just as 'lawfull' in a legal sense in Scotland. it was only the church who didn;t recognise such marriages. it happened a great deal up here till the ceation of Registry office marriages to get around the problem of keeping track of marriages, but i suspect folk crossing the border would head for the church they recognised. a lot would depend perhaps on their reasons for choosing to wed north of the border. le durachd fionnghal ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BORDER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message