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Alexander Gregory - Help clarify Marriage and Occupation Please
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 10:20 UTC (UK) »
I am desperately hoping someone may be able to help me solve a mystery:

I have found details of
          'Alexander Gregory Session Officer of Dunnottar had Joseph bapt 26 Oct 1800.'

Does anyone know what a Session Officer is please, and what he would have done?

I wondered if it had anything to do with the Law Courts of the time?

If it's the same Alexander Gregory I'm looking for, he had a daughter called Helen or Ellen born around 1809-11. On her marriage cert it says her father was a parish clerk. Perhaps he changed jobs?

Alexander the session officer and his family appears to disappear off the Dunnottar parish register after 1806. Helen (or Ellen) in the census returns says she was born in Aberdeen. 

I have found 2 marriages for Alexander Gregory and a Margaret Guthrie:

' 23 July 1796 Alexander Gregory in this parish and Margaret Guthrie in the parish of Old Machar gave in their name for the proclamation of their Banns in order to marriage and were married.'

There is also an IGI index for them marrying on 24th July 1796 in Old Machar, Aberdeen, but I haven't been able to see the entry for this one as the film is in Salt Lake City.

Is one of these likely to be the reading of Banns and the other the actual marriage?

It would seem likely that this might be the right family, especially if they moved back to Aberdeen?

Any help on any of my many quieries would be very much appreciated............
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