I believe (and I could be way wrong here, so don't quote me), that in much the same way as christenings are still held as part of a larger Sunday service, marriages were also often held on Sundays. To the modern way of thinking, this either A) detracts from the normal sermon or B) detracts from the Bride's "big day", either being a sufficient reason not to have them on Sundays. Leslie On 13/12/2004 23:21:36, midlothian-l@rootsweb.com wrote: > Gil, >Thank you for sharing the image. I have a copy of an original > Proclamation of Marriage (original held by cousin) from 1832. It also is > very creased, making the day of month very hard to read. >I > hadn't noticed before that the handwriting on the top part is > different from the bottom where the minister filled in the marriage > date. At least now I know the two dates are different by a few days. >I would be interested to know if there was a particular day of the week > when marriages occurred - such as a Saturday. That would make it easier > for me to guess the hard to read date. >Jennifer >Melbourne, Australia >-----Original Message----- > From: Gil Hall [mailto:gil@gilhall.fsnet.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 7:39 AM > To: MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MLN] Canongate proclamations 1812 spares >Lisa, >You may be interested to see a copy of an original Proclamation of > Marriage > from 1828. Alexander STEWART and Joan JOHNSTON are my great-great > grandparents. Go to http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/CertProc.html >The reason for the 'creases' in the document was that my late father > Adam > HALL 1899-1979 was so proud of this document he c Kodiak Web Design http://www.kodiak-web-design.com -- Browsers I use: Opera 6.06 and 7.54 IE 5.0 and 6.0 Netscape 4.77, 6.2.3 and 7.2; Mozilla 1.7.3; Firefox 0.9 WinXP Home (broadband) and Win98 (dialup)

I just checked on the dates of Gil's 1828 proclamation. 15th Dec 1828 was a Monday and the day of marriage 19th Dec 1828 was a Friday. On my hard to read one, I think the date of marriage is 6th April 1832, and that also is a Friday. Jennifer -----Original Message----- From: Kodiak Web Design [mailto:kodiak@kodiak-web-design.com] Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 10:30 AM To: MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [MLN] Canongate proclamations 1812 spares I believe (and I could be way wrong here, so don't quote me), that in much the same way as christenings are still held as part of a larger Sunday service, marriages were also often held on Sundays. To the modern way of thinking, this either A) detracts from the normal sermon or B) detracts from the Bride's "big day", either being a sufficient reason not to have them on Sundays. Leslie On 13/12/2004 23:21:36, midlothian-l@rootsweb.com wrote: > Gil, >Thank you for sharing the image. I have a copy of an original > Proclamation of Marriage (original held by cousin) from 1832. It also is > very creased, making the day of month very hard to read. >I > hadn't noticed before that the handwriting on the top part is > different from the bottom where the minister filled in the marriage > date. At least now I know the two dates are different by a few days. >I would be interested to know if there was a particular day of the week > when marriages occurred - such as a Saturday. That would make it easier > for me to guess the hard to read date. >Jennifer