I seem to be having a very bad run in attempting to locate Orkney marriages in the period 1750 to 1850 in the Old Parish Records. At the moment I am scoring well below 50%, and probably below 25%, even of those for whom later records (of baptisms) indicate that the parents were married. Is this a case of lost records, although the gaps are not apparent, just bad record keeping, although the baptisms seem to be much better, or were there just a high percentage of marriages by habit and repute? Robert Slater

What names are you looking for? Have you tried Walt Cusiter's site or Lisa Conrad's site at SouthRonaldsay.net Willie Sinclair 2008/10/30 Robert SLATER <rsla8999@bigpond.net.au>: > I seem to be having a very bad run in attempting to locate Orkney marriages > in the period 1750 to 1850 in the Old Parish Records. At the moment I am > scoring well below 50%, and probably below 25%, even of those for whom later > records (of baptisms) indicate that the parents were married. > > Is this a case of lost records, although the gaps are not apparent, > > just bad record keeping, although the baptisms seem to be much better, or > > were there just a high percentage of marriages by habit and repute? > > Robert Slater > > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >