hi Greg All things come to those that wait blah blah I cant access your old messages due to another email *uck up (that's muck up of course) but I had printed your posting and your heartfelt plea lay in the bottom of my bag along with the old bus tickets etc. Maybe someone has already done it, but if not: Mr Thomas Cleghorn Mercht N2 George St & Mifs Janet Nisbet N40 Northumberland Street both in St Andrews Parish 3 Procla & no Objections Married 27th by the Revd John Inglis Minister of Green Law. this is as close as I can get to the script using a keyboard. I have a lovely clear photocopy which you can have if you send your snail mail off list. Not the full width as the Edinburgh library service can't afford the different lens, so you don't get the 'Cleghorn' in the margin but the entry itself is complete. Now here's the weird stuff. When I got home I noticed the entry immediately above - Mr James Bowman Mercht - actually has Janet Nisbet scored out and then Margaret Nicolson written instead. the address that follows is N40 Northumberland St. The new name does not replace the old but continues on from it ie the writer had already corrected the brides name before writing the address. This entry is on the top edge of the copy but from the descending strokes the two grooms' addresses may also be the same. And the third bride on the photocopy was also from Northumberland St but her fathers name is given and there is no house number! Whilst I was still at the library I checked the Post Office directories for 1827-8, 1826-7, 1821-22, 1819-20, 1818-19. There were no Thomas Cleghorns and no Cleghorns in George St. For a couple of those years I also checked Leith. Maybe your Thomas was working for one of the other Cleghorns as there were a few of merchant status or equivalent in the New Town area. I was also looking (without success) for Ann Carson's CHISHOLM so my last gasp was a look at the 1800 directory. This showed Cleghorn Thomas, Esq No 27. Prince's Street (sic). I did notice a couple of Miss Nisbet's in these directories. And in 1826-7 I struck lucky. Nisbet, Miss 40 Northumberland Street. As so often, all this seems to raise as many questions as it answers, but that's show biz. In 1818-19 and 1827-8 there was a Miss Nisbet at 6 Nelson Street. In 1819-20 there is an Archibald Nisbet, writer at 11 Nelson St. Nelson Street is at right angles from one end of Northumberland St. Is there a connection here? One possibility that occured to me was that there were two Nisbet sisters who owned several houses, which they occasionally occupied and other times let out, but that really is just speculation. As for Green Law, I would think that is Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders. My earliest source at home is for 1838 and lists the Church of Scotland minister as Abraham Home, altho the United Associate minister was David Inglis. The fact that this is a banns record and you havent found a marriage as such might indeed suggest a secessionist church. there are other sources which can confirm this for you. Happy hunting Judy happy hunting Judy