Hello, Sue, thanks for your note. Yes, I think I will have to look in the kirk session minutes, although they can be very difficult to search since I have a wide range of years and a number of parishes to look through. He was Irish Catholic, she was Church of Scotland, and I suspect they had a Catholic wedding since they baptized their children in the Catholic church. I have already searched the Catholic marriage records for Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow and Paisley without finding them, however (these were the only nearby Catholic churches at that time whose records have survived.) Most Catholic couples had their banns read at the Church of Scotland, even if their wedding was at a Catholic church. That means that there should be records of their marriage in two places, not just one. That makes it very frustrating that I haven't found them after considerable searching to date! Best regards, Walt. ----- Original Message ----- From: "SUSAN THOMPSON" <transatlanticmum@yahoo.co.uk> To: <SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 4:48 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] LAFFERTY and PEFFERS in the Haddington area > Hi Walt, > I suggest you try www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk as I have found they sometimes have data the IGI doesn't have if that fails you need to look at the Kirk sessions for the parish's as some marriages were 'irregular' ie. they didn't register them but sometimes when that happened the church would admonish them in the kirk sessions failing that if they had any children after 1855 the marriage date will be mentioned on the child's birth registration again that will be on the scotlandspeople site. > Sue > > Walt Sammis <walt@sammis.com> wrote: > Hello, everyone, I have a question about the quality of the IGI data for East Lothian. > > I am searching for a marriage which took place in Haddingtonshire in 1820-1833 (most likely 1828-1831). It either took place in Haddington itself or else in one of the immediately surrounding parishes of Garvald, Gladsmuir, Bolton, Pencaitland, Aberlady, Athelstaneford, Prestonkirk, Morham, Gifford or Salton. (The family has events in all these parishes except for Prestonkirk.) > > This marriage is not listed in the IGI, so my question is whether, in your experience, the IGI data is accurate and complete for all of these parishes or whether perhaps some of them are incomplete or full of errors in the IGI. This would help me decide which parishes to look at first. > > The event is the marriage of Peter LAFFERTY and Elizabeth PEFFERS. > > Thanks for your advice! Walt Sammis. > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > Share your record transcripts by entering them in the Scotland BDM Exchange today. Go to http://www.sctbdm.com/ to search or submit births, deaths, and marriages. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > --------------------------------- > Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to WIN Robbie Williams "Live At Knebworth DVD" > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > Here is a partial list of the parishes of Haddingtonshire: Oldhamstocks, Ormiston, Pencaitland, Prestonkirk, Prestonpans, Saltoun, Spott, Stenton, Tranent, Tynninghame, Whitekirk, Whittinghame, Yester > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >