As this specific to Inverness I thought I would put it here but perhaps you may think it better elsewhere?
I am looking a the children of Alexander Fraser and Rebecca Chisholm - anyone with Frasers in Inverness will know the joy of the searches!!
I had thought I had one sons marriage, James, but on looking again - the SP entry states parents as James Fraser, road contractor and Rebecca Fraser ms Chisholm.
So the age fits, fathers occupation fits, mothers name fits BUT that first name is wrong! Could it have been entered incorrectly? I do have lots of incorrect entries but usually at death where folk did not know or assumed incorrectly, or a women entering details to cover an illegitimate birth. But this marriage - would be very odd?
However I have searched for both a baptism and a marriage to fit the above details but cannot find anything to fit. Going to the following census, James lists his place of birth as Kiltarlity (yet another box ticked) - so I am thinking that this is James, son of 'my' Alexander and Rebecca.
How were these details recorded - was it the minister who wrote it out with both of them there? Could just the 'wife to be' have said who their parents were? Is it likely that they would have ever seen it? Is there anything else I can do ? Other than sit at the archives and search through the deaths of hundreds of James Frasers ?
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