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« on: Friday 02 February 24 10:57 GMT (UK) »
SP index shows the 1893 marriage, and birth Maria Jane Mckenzie in 1872 mmn Tennant. I don't see any similar birth in 1870, so there seems to be just the one Maria/Maria Jane with various spellings.
Do you have the marriage record from SP showing the whole page of the register? Did the bride sign or make her mark? If the latter, maybe someone else gave mistaken information about her parents.
Or, could she perhaps, like an illiterate woman in my husband's family, have named the people she lived with who were seemingly her guardians, not her parents? Where was Maria prior to her marriage?
What other names are on the register page? It's a remote possibility, but could a mistake have crept in when the Register was copied to send to Edinburgh? It's easy enough for someone's eye to skip a line when copying.