Hi Lesley, I checked your situation re the marriage of John ROBSON and Susan(nah) SELBY in FamilySearch.org and in the Catalog for the FHL in Salt Lake on CD, and it would all appear to be as you describe. Most importantly, the Catalog says that there are no marriage records for the parish church in Jedburg between 1772 and 1821. From what you say, you already did all this, but I had to check before expounding on possibilities. Based on my limited experience with the IGI, the Scottish CD, and searching the microfilm of the records extracted to these indices, there is the possibility that there is an extraneous record of some sort mixed in with those for 1821-54. I am not saying it is there, but I have been surprised at times at what is on the films of these records. They are an amazing assortment of chaos mixed with order in various proportions, and you just have to make do with what has survived. Of course, there is always the possibility that the date is simply in error. However, that seems unlikely because the data on the record otherwise fit data you have for that time period. The bottom line is that you probably won't know unless you search that film yourself. Good luck, Don Asquith on 9/24/03 10:32 AM, Lesley Murray at [email protected] wrote: > Hi > > I wonder if anyone can help me with a bit of puzzle. > > My 4 x great grandparents were John ROBSON and Susan(nah) SELBY. According > to the IGI they were married 29 Dec 1780 in Jedburgh. I have their children > and children's children so know they are mine and were married at the right > time. The puzzle is the batch number that the marriage comes under is > M117928 which is for marriages 1821-1854 and not 1780. in fact according to > the IGI there isn't a batch covering the year 1780. > > I have searched the OPR's on the GRO for Scotland for every year available > and have come up with 0. > > Their burial is in Byrness churchyard just across the border along with most > of the family before and after. I also find their children being christened > in Northumberland. I had always made the assumption that they married in > Scotland because they were Presbyterian and didn't want to marry in the > Church of England. > > I will start looking in my records in Northumberland for the marriage but I > just wondered if anyone had come across anything like this before. I know > there are transcription errors on the IGI but this has got to be more than a > transcription error I think. > > Cheers > > Lesley