emial me ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca, I'll see if I can see anything. Sometimes the banns were held where one person of the couple were and the marriage was held where the other lived. Tammy On 16/06/2010 9:44 AM, Lynne Ingalls wrote: > Tammy - I was kind of wondering the same thing. Or maybe his parents lived > in Edinburgh and he wanted them to attend? It all a mystery until I find > more information. > > Thanks again for the interest, > > Lynne > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tammy Mitchell"<ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca> > To:<midlothian@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:36 AM > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Irregular marriages:Duncan M'Carterand > ElisabethSimpson

Tammy and Lynne I believe that Banns were required to be read in the parish of each of the partners to the marriage. This is what made me think that the marriage would have been deemed 'irregular' if the Banns had not been read in the Parish of Whittinghame being the home parish of one or both of the partners to the marriage. Whittinghame is actually not all that far from Edinburgh - probably between 20 to 30 miles. I am told that in the 1860s/'70s, my Great Grandfather used to walk from his lodgings in Glasgow to his family home in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire every Friday evening and walk back to Glasgow every Monday morning. That is a distance of about 20 miles. Rhoda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tammy Mitchell" <ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Irregularmarriages:Duncan M'Carterand ElisabethSimpson > emial me > > ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca, I'll see if I can see anything. Sometimes > the banns were held where one person of the couple were and the marriage > was held where the other lived. > > Tammy

Rhoda - Can you imagine today walking 20 miles (40 mi round trip)? It hurts my back to think of it. I suppose they could have hitched a ride on a cart. There must have been a lot of commerce between Whittingehame farms and Edinburgh. Was there a ferry from Dunbar? Lynne ----- Original Message ----- From: "CandROverson" <overson12@btinternet.com> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN]Irregularmarriages:Duncan M'Carterand ElisabethSimpson > Tammy and Lynne > > I believe that Banns were required to be read in the parish of each of the > partners to the marriage. This is what made me think that the marriage > would > have been deemed 'irregular' if the Banns had not been read in the Parish > of > Whittinghame being the home parish of one or both of the partners to the > marriage. Whittinghame is actually not all that far from Edinburgh - > probably between 20 to 30 miles. I am told that in the 1860s/'70s, my > Great > Grandfather used to walk from his lodgings in Glasgow to his family home > in > Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire every Friday evening and walk back to Glasgow > every > Monday morning. That is a distance of about 20 miles. > > Rhoda > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tammy Mitchell" <ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca> > To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:50 PM > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Irregularmarriages:Duncan M'Carterand > ElisabethSimpson > > >> emial me >> >> ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca, I'll see if I can see anything. Sometimes >> the banns were held where one person of the couple were and the marriage >> was held where the other lived. >> >> Tammy > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Lynne I can't be sure about the ferry, but it wouldn't surprise me. There used to be a ferry service between Edinburgh (South Queensferry) and North Queensferry on the Fife coast. In fact it was still going strong as a car ferry when I was a girl, before they built the Forth Road Bridge. But I think it would have been just as quick to walk, or as you say, jump on a cart. Rhoda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Ingalls" <Lynne.Ingalls@comcast.net> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN]Irregularmarriages:Duncan M'Carterand ElisabethSimpson > Rhoda - Can you imagine today walking 20 miles (40 mi round trip)? It > hurts my back to think of it. I suppose they could have hitched a ride on > a > cart. There must have been a lot of commerce between Whittingehame farms > and Edinburgh. Was there a ferry from Dunbar? > > Lynne > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "CandROverson" <overson12@btinternet.com> > To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:40 PM > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN]Irregularmarriages:Duncan M'Carterand > ElisabethSimpson > > >> Tammy and Lynne >> >> I believe that Banns were required to be read in the parish of each of >> the >> partners to the marriage. This is what made me think that the marriage >> would >> have been deemed 'irregular' if the Banns had not been read in the Parish >> of >> Whittinghame being the home parish of one or both of the partners to the >> marriage. Whittinghame is actually not all that far from Edinburgh - >> probably between 20 to 30 miles. I am told that in the 1860s/'70s, my >> Great >> Grandfather used to walk from his lodgings in Glasgow to his family home >> in >> Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire every Friday evening and walk back to Glasgow >> every >> Monday morning. That is a distance of about 20 miles. >> >> Rhoda >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tammy Mitchell" <ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca> >> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Irregularmarriages:Duncan M'Carterand >> ElisabethSimpson >> >> >>> emial me >>> >>> ancestry@ripandrevmedia.ca, I'll see if I can see anything. Sometimes >>> the banns were held where one person of the couple were and the marriage >>> was held where the other lived. >>> >>> Tammy >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Not Midlothian, however, I had Janet WILSON & John KING married Irregular marriage in Edinburgh 1791, they were later admonished in their home Parish of Gladsmuir, East Lothian. A sister of John, Helen King, who married William Wilson 1799, also had an irregular Marriage, in Edinburgh , they were said to have produced their Marriage Lines in their Parish of Gladsmuir. It is possible that the above families had an issue with the Minister of their own Parish, or, he had an issue with some of his Parishioners. The information about the 2 couples were from the O.P.R Film of Gladsmuir Parish. Mary -----Original Message----- From: midlothian-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:midlothian-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of CandROverson Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:40 a.m. To: midlothian@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Irregularmarriages:Duncan M'Carterand ElisabethSimpson Tammy and Lynne I believe that Banns were required to be read in the parish of each of the partners to the marriage. This is what made me think that the marriage would have been deemed 'irregular' if the Banns had not been read in the Parish of Whittinghame being the home parish of one or both of the partners to the marriage. Whittinghame is actually not all that far from Edinburgh - probably between 20 to 30 miles. I am told that in the 1860s/'70s, my Great Grandfather used to walk from his lodgings in Glasgow to his family home in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire every Friday evening and walk back to Glasgow every Monday morning. That is a distance of about 20 miles. Rhoda __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5202 (20100616) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com