1847 Marriage Record - Kirk/Murray *** COMPLETED ***

[Chiad Fhear]

Can someone fill in the gap in the attached record for me please?

I can make out:

Johnston Kirk from the Parish of St Andrews in the County ......... and Janet Murray from the Parish of Middleby in the County Dumfries.  They being both here and Declared Themselves Single Persons were married this Twentyfourth day of April 1847 By Me Simon Lane.

The couple's names and witness names are OK - Johnston was from St Andrews, Fife!

Thanks in anticipation

Chiad Fhear

[*Sandra*]

County Cumberland.

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Dumfriesshire Parish Map shows Parish of Middlebie.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/DFS/parish_map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebie

Sandra

[Chiad Fhear]

County Cumberland.

Sandra

Hi Sandra

I thought that too, but the Parish of St Andrews is in FIFE, SCOTLAND.  Middleby/Middlebie I know about.

Regards

Chiad Fhear

[*Sandra*]

Sorry i meant to put Cumbernauld but that's Lanarkshire -    no hope  - to much "sun"

Sandra

[Gadget]

Just wondering if there was a misunderstanding about the parish in Cumberland. There is a St Andrews Church in Penrith:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Penrith

Gadget

[Chiad Fhear]

Sorry Gadget, I missed your reply late last evening 

I had noticed that Cumberland information online too.

Dumfries-shire and Cumberland are not a million miles apart - and maybe the Kirk recorder's brain wasn't in gear!

In the absence of any other solution, I may just have to go with it 

Chiad Fhear

[Gadget]

It's odd though as the 1841 definitely shows him in St Andrews, Fife  and born Fife and 1851 has him b. St Andrews, Fife.

It probably was that the recorder just assumed St Andrews, Penrith  as it was closer!

Gadget

[Chiad Fhear]

Thanks Gadget and Sandra

It's another one of these questions that will have to remain as a question 

Chiad Fhear