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Re: Selkirk Dissenters / the Associate Synod / Dr. George Lawson
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 18 June 08 19:58 UTC (UK) »
All the Dr LAWSON familes and Moirs are buried in the Auld Kirkyard Selkirk which I transcribed last year. It is now on CD with photographs of each headstone  and available from www.bordersfhs.org.uk for £10 plus p and p.
This burial ground is also the place where all the Murrays of Philiphaugh and Falahill have an ailse outlining their family history from AD 1280 to 1939 on various plaques.
It also includes the Murrays who were the maternal parents of Franklin d Rosseveldt .
One particular headstone is "To the memory of John Murray .He suffered great persecution for his opposition to episcopacy and to his strong attachments to the covenanting cause.He was a gentleman of singular piety and was chased from his house and heritage by the --- --oppression had all his goods driven to ye Mercat Cross and there sold."!!
   We look after them north of the border!!    alan
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Re: Selkirk Dissenters / the Associate Synod / Dr. George Lawson
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 23 August 09 22:20 UTC (UK) »
All this talk of Dissenters may explain why I can't find the marriage of Andrew Haddon and Christian Ruecastle which should have happened at the end of 1771 (she dumped a Hawick man after the banns were called in Sepr.1771) and went off and presumably married as the subsequent children (1772 onward) were to the lawfully wedded...! and born in Selkirk, Edinburgh and Paisley.
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Brown - Galashiels; Cochrane - Galashiels and Kelso; Haddon - Selkirk and Peebles; Goodfellow, Laing, Scott, White - Hawick; Saunders - Plymouth and London; Hingston, Lindon, Sedgwick - Devon; Cruickshank,  Scott - Moray; Bruce - Alford, Aberdeenshire; Murray - Edinburgh, Lasswade; Alexander - Falkirk and Northumberland; Snowdon - Rothbury and Co.Durham; Hall - Northumberland and Co.Durham; Cook - Co.Durham; Hobson and Falshaw - Leeds and North Yorkshire;
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Re: Selkirk Dissenters / the Associate Synod / Dr. George Lawson
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 26 August 09 13:37 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: aricandec on Sunday 23 August 09 22:20 UTC (UK)
All this talk of Dissenters may explain why I can't find the marriage of Andrew Haddon and Christian Ruecastle which should have happened at the end of 1771 (she dumped a Hawick man after the banns were called in Sepr.1771) and went off and presumably married as the subsequent children (1772 onward) were to the lawfully wedded...! and born in Selkirk, Edinburgh and Paisley.
Enid

Enid

While it's certainly possible that your ancestor was a dissenter it's also possible that the record just hasn't survived.

Have a look at the OPR section on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk .  Go into the Help section and you will find a listing of the dates for which Established CoS records exist for the parishes of interest.

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Re: Selkirk Dissenters / the Associate Synod / Dr. George Lawson
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 26 August 09 15:21 UTC (UK) »
Don't really think that family group were Dissenters as all their children were christened in the CoS church.  I think - as you suggest - that the registers were deficient OR just as possible, they were married OK but refused to pay to have their names entered.  That apparently was very common practice around that period as the church /govenrment were (once again) trying to raise money by taxing necessary items and their subjects were registering their displeasure by not paying up.  I may say, that I can't locate his mother's second marriage either to John Dunn between 1747 and 1750, but again the subsequent children all appear in the register!
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Brown - Galashiels; Cochrane - Galashiels and Kelso; Haddon - Selkirk and Peebles; Goodfellow, Laing, Scott, White - Hawick; Saunders - Plymouth and London; Hingston, Lindon, Sedgwick - Devon; Cruickshank,  Scott - Moray; Bruce - Alford, Aberdeenshire; Murray - Edinburgh, Lasswade; Alexander - Falkirk and Northumberland; Snowdon - Rothbury and Co.Durham; Hall - Northumberland and Co.Durham; Cook - Co.Durham; Hobson and Falshaw - Leeds and North Yorkshire;
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Re: Selkirk Dissenters / the Associate Synod / Dr. George Lawson
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 26 August 09 15:25 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: aricandec on Wednesday 26 August 09 15:21 UTC (UK)
Don't really think that family group were Dissenters as all their children were christened in the CoS church.  I think - as you suggest - that the registers were deficient OR just as possible, they were married OK but refused to pay to have their names entered.  That apparently was very common practice around that period as the church /govenrment were (once again) trying to raise money by taxing necessary items and their subjects were registering their displeasure by not paying up.  I may say, that I can't locate his mother's second marriage either to John Dunn between 1747 and 1750, but again the subsequent children all appear in the register!
Enid

Enid

Have a search here on RC for one of the several threads dealing with the subject of irregular marriages.

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