Below are two entries re the marriage of Margaret and George. The first one refers to £2.5s Scots collected and also £1.4s.... Can someone clarify for me please would this money have been paid by the Bride's parents? or the groom? How would the amount have been reached?- it seems a lot of money for 1732. I must admit I did not think to search for other marriage entries to compare amounts paid. Also curious about the banns - which says they were married on 17th Nov... was this an announcement of the wedding date or would the date have been entered after the marriage? Film 0993515 - Parish 329 - Auchterarder. Old Parish registers. B. 1661-1737; M 1668-1737 & Session records. B & M 1738-1758 " B & M 1759-1819 " 1732. Page 314 Session Records. "Sabbath Octr 15th there was collected two pounds five shilling scots. Received in charity from George McLeish and Margaret Marten when listed for proclamation in order to marriage one pound four sh." Banns: October 21st 1732. "George McLeish and Maragret Marten both of this Parish. Listed to be proclaimed in order of marriage and this being ordered and regularly done they were married on the seventeenth of November seventeen hundred and thirty two years." NB: Margaret was the daughter of Andrew Marten and Elizabeth Friskin married in Tibbermore 7th March 1708. George was the son of John McLeish and Isabel McEwan (born about 1680). Margaret is buried in St MacKessog's Church Cemetery, Auchterarder.