Thanks Roger and Johan for your help. That is what I suspected. Amazing that those stone walls have remained standing for so long even though the chapel has not been in use. Now I have another question related to this couple. It is my understanding (from information you sent me Roger) that the man, Malcolm Gardner was a shepherd on Killinallan farm, Killarow parish which would have been across Loch Gruinart from where Ann McPherson lived at Kilnave. This seems rather a barrier to get across given tides and mudflats. How do you think they would have managed to get together? By boat? Walking all the way around? Was their some communal gathering that would have brought them together? Allison Akgungor Sent from my iPad > On Jul 18, 2015, at 4:47 AM, J LOCHRIDGE <j.lochridge@btinternet.com> wrote: > > Alison, > There is an Ann McPherson living at Kilnave in 1851 census. My understanding is that Kilnave was a "farm village" as there were 14 households living there in that census. It was quite normal to be married at home, or some other place, as Roger says, at that time. > There was a McPherson at Kilnave from as far back as 1780, according to info in the Day Book of Daniel Campbell by Freda Ramsay. > Regards > Johan L > > From: Rogeer via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> > To: Allison Akgungor <allison@akgungor.com>; sct-islay@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, 18 July 2015, 11:28 > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Query re: Kilnave chapel > > Hi again Allison, > The marriage certificate certainly says they were married at Kilnave, Church > of Scotland, Kilchoman on the 12th June - so it is possible that there was a > ceremony there but that the church was not necessarily functioning as a > church, people tended to get married in all sorts of places, sometimes in > Manses or friends houses. I have a note from the STENT Committee raising > money to put a wall round the graveyard to stop the interments slipping into > the Loch, so it looks as though it was pretty ruinous even then. > Regards Roger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Allison Akgungor via > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:01 AM > To: SCT-ISLAY@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Query re: Kilnave chapel > > I have a copy of a marriage registration between Ann McPherson and Malcolm > Gardner on June 12, 1855 at Kilnave. I am wondering if the chapel at Kilnave > was still in use then and if it is likely that the marriage would have taken > place in the chapel. > > Thanks for your help, > Allison Akgungor > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. > Please don't do it. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >