> Would like to resolve the issue of where Robert Beavis and Elizabeth > Mackenzie were married - at Windsor, but the marriage cert says Scots > Church, however there was no Scots Church at that time. It was built > later. Well, there is a book in the National Libary entitled: Scots' Presbyterian Church, Windsor, N.S.W., 1839-1967 which suggests that the author believes the church existed from 1839 in time for your 1840 marriage. Remember that the term "church" can mean both a building and a community of people, so it may be that there was a community of people who met for worship from 1839, even if they didn't build a church building until later. Kerry

Check out this: http://tinyurl.com/yjleml2 It tells you the history of things and confirms my theory about a congregation existing prior to a church building. It would seem that in 1840 the congregation was meeting in the courthouse [presumably in Windsor]. But note that marriages didn't have to happen in churches. Many people were married in private homes or in the manse of the church. So long as the Presbyterian minister presided, it will appear in the register. Kerry