Hi Judith, prey it's 1955! (when Staturory registration came in in Scotland), you get the the date and place of birth of the bride & groom, and the name of their parents (including the maiden names of the mothers).(on the certs) An index of statutory marriages (1855-1875) is on line at the LDS site, www.familysearch.org, (free) and on the Scottish Government site, (1855-1931), www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk site (but it costs 20p per search), you can then get a copy a copy of the cert. If prior to 1855, then you might have a problem, in 1843 2/3's of the ministers split from the Church of Scotland, to form the Free Church of Scotland and many of thier congregations followed, in the Free Kirk's early years their are few records, and they were more concerned about getting established than keeping registers. The marriage records of the Established Church have been indexed, both on the LDS site (which may have a few gaps, there are large gaps in the LDS online version of the baptisms) and the Scotlands People site. A word of warning, the Kirk did not have standard forms of record keeping like C of E, so records were either very detailed or minimal. Scottish "marriage" records, are usually Banns records, so you get the 3 dates of the Banns , followed by "and were later married" (with no date. Most only record the name & parish of the bride & groom, some record the grooms occuipation and the brides father. Some mention "cautioners' who were normally male relatives, who paid a bond, which was forfited if the couple did not marry. The LDS have indexed some non established church records. There are indexes of the marriages of some iternent ministers performed in the border towns like Greta Green. Good Hunting John Dods (1/4 Yorkie, 1/8 Yankee, the rest mostly Scottish :-) ) Wellington, NZ --- Judith Kettlewell <judith.kettlewell@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Listers > > I apologise for deviating away from Yorkshire for a > moment but does anyone know where I can find indices > for Scottish Marriages c1948 - 1955ish please? > > This is a Yorkshire man who married in Scotland so > not absolutely non Yorkshire. > > Many thanks for any help. > > Kind regards > > Judith K > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > Proud to be a transcriber for the freeCEN Project and volunteer for Random Acts of Geneological Kindness Ask me how you can contribute to either of these worthy projects or for other ways of helping our hobby. Researching BATTERS in all Yorkshire BENNIE in Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire & WLN BENNING in Lanarkshire & Montreal COOPER in Pickering,Yorkshire DODS in East Lothian, Berwickshire, British Columbia, Montreal, Manchester, South Africa, Hong Kong, India DOUGLAS in Innerwick,ELN & Lanarkshire EASTWOOD in Holmfirth,WRY FENTON in Edinburgh FISHER in Leconfield & Pocklington, East YKS HAYTON in EastYorkshire HEWAT in East Lothian HESSELGRAVE in West Yorkshire LAMONT in Lanarkshire MCLEAN in Straclur,Argyll PAVER in Sherburn in Elmet, Yks RANKINE in Dunbartonshire, Perthshire SHIRREFF in East Lothian SUFFILL/SUFFIELD in West & North Yorkshire TROTTER, Islay,ARL,Lanarkshire, West Lothian WALTON, Bradford & Denby, Yorkshire WILLIAMSON in Edinburgh & North Berwick ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7