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hawkins47
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marriage help please
« on: Friday 12 June 09 22:59 BST (UK) »
Hi there
I am looking for a marriage between alexander methven and margaret forbes they christened nine children in bleocraigs parish of kemback in fifeshire their first child was alexander methven christened on the 16th of october 1737

Alexanders occupation was a taylor in criags

I have looked on Scotland's people with no luck

thankyou for your time

Tracy
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hawkins.. tottenham
methven ..tottenham
wood ..bethnal green
methven .. scotland
methven..enfield
nanato5
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Re: marriage help please
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 18 June 09 11:54 BST (UK) »
found no marraige as yet but on scotlands people,opr's there is 5 females and 4 males born between 1737 and 1759,to this couple,dont know if it would give date of marraige on those certs,eva
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mcgilp & pringle,kilbride ,bute                                                 
mackie,fife .                                                                 
brabender& pringle,glasgow                                                     
pringle&brown,& aitken,glasgow                                                             
wight,east lothian & borders.
Chiad Fhear
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Aye mair questions than answers!
Re: marriage help please
« Reply #2 on: Monday 22 June 09 08:25 BST (UK) »
Hi Tracey

I had a search like this totally screwed up until I tried optional spellings of the name METHVINE Tongue

Having eventually managed to get the Register page it transpired it looked to be written in as METHUINE Angry  The 'transcriber' would have taken that as the correct spelling hence there being no METHVINE coming up on a search Sad

The ScotlandsPeople site is quite pedantic with spelling and doesn't offer options - as does the LDS IGI site.

Good luck anyway Smiley

Regards

Chiad Fhear
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Aye mair questions than answers in a world where the past was a different place - that cannae be revisited!

Family surnames being researched ...
Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson
Drummond, Pearson, Laing ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more!

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hawkins47
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Re: marriage help please
« Reply #3 on: Monday 22 June 09 20:21 BST (UK) »
Hi Eva
Thanks for the children I have looked at all of their births and it does not give the marriage
I will look at the spelling and try and play around with scotland people to see if it may have been spelt different thanks chiad
Thanks again Tracy
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hawkins.. tottenham
methven ..tottenham
wood ..bethnal green
methven .. scotland
methven..enfield
lbathgate
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Re: marriage help please
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 25 June 09 19:40 BST (UK) »
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The ScotlandsPeople site is quite pedantic with spelling and doesn't offer options - as does the LDS IGI site.

The Scotlands People site is one of the most flexible to search once you know how to use it. You need to use wildcards to cover spelling variations. Using wildcards saves time and effort in trying to think of all the possible spelling variations.

Scotlands People is one of the very few family history research sites on the web where a leading wildcard is permitted.
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