William Henderson born 1849 bo'ness linlithgowshire married margaret casey from newton glasgow date of marriage 23 june 1872 at crofthead lanarkshire scotland her father was william casey and mother was Mary they went to new zealand in 1874 and lived in westport waimangarua there they had children william peter margaret james and isabella i am trying to trace my gg grand fathers family he lived in linlithgowshire . how can i find his marriage certificate i been lookin g on many sights but no luck i got the place and date but no luck of recording can someone please advise me what to do
You say you have tried 'many sights'. There is only
one reliable site for looking for this sort of information. See
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=714261.0Having said that, there is no listing of such a marriage in the index at
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk so there is obviously something odd about this marriage.
Various possibilities spring to mind
- Did they just invent a date and place of marriage for the NZ birth records?
- Did they marry by declaration before witnesses, but not get round to having the marriage registered?
- Did they change their names on emigration, for some reason?
The place of (the alleged) marriage doesn't really help, because there isn't a parish or registration district of Crofthead. As a place name, Crofthead is very common. A quick check on
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/ tells me that Crofthead crops up in 10 of the Name Books for Lanarkshire alone, and there are many more references in other counties.
SP has 139 marriages of a William to a Margaret in Lanarkshire in 1872. Using the IGI at FamilySearch, none of these marriages were on 23 June, so that method doesn't work.
First of all, have you got either or both of them in the censuses before they emigrated? And did they have a child in Scotland before they emigrated?