bob gillis wrote: >In the marriage register she was age 22 so born in 1905-1906. > >There is a delayed birth registration applied for by herself that give >her birth date as 25Sep 1905. Her father is given in the birth record >as Ronald MacDonald > It is actually recorded as Ranald A. MacDonald. >and in the marriage record as >Donald A McDonald and Mary Campbell. > > The "1928" marriage for Dolena Evelyn McDonald & James Charles Hunt has Ronald A. McDonald and Mary Campbell. >The only marriage between a Ronald A D McDonald and Mary J Campbell is in >1917 - Book: 24 - Page: 51 - Number: and all the image shows is a front >page of a marriage license 21051 dated 22 Aug 1917. > >Can I assume that her parents were not married until 15 years after her >birth? > > If you so desire, you can. (Your referenced marriage does not support it.) Dolena's delayed registration of birth document does provide the necessary leads to find the marriage and death records for her parents on NSHVS. >A least one record has the father's name as Ranald and as one of her sons >was so named I guess that was the actual spelling > -- Ron