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Scotland / Re: Any reason why marriage certificate wouldn't be on SP?
« on: Monday 08 April 24 09:13 BST (UK)  »
Were you looking at the Scotlands people centre in Edinburgh?
As otherwise there is a 75 year closure on marriages.

As said by others it would say it on the child’s birth certificate.

This would be accurate as I remember having to take mine with me to the registry office when registering my children.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Edinburgh Marriage 1750
« on: Monday 08 April 24 09:05 BST (UK)  »
Could it mean ‘not within parish’ ?
Where she was from ?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Scottish portrait date and age
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 13:56 GMT (UK)  »
I thought it could be a ‘husband about to go to war’ photo as I have some very similar in dress and hairstyles.
The 3 I have were all taken at the same time, husband in Scottish Military uniform, husband and wife, and the 6 children.
Looking at the youngest child, a baby, and knowing his birth date my photo would have been taken around 1912/13.

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England / Re: Henry Robinson - Bookseller in Edinburgh
« on: Friday 15 March 24 13:37 GMT (UK)  »
As above his daughter was born on 9.6.1856.
Her name was Margaret Finlay Henrietta Robinson.
Mothers maiden name Finlay.

Unfortunately and unusually, for a Scottish birth registration, It doesn’t say the date of the parents marriage.

If you look the up on later census's they may have had more children and by looking at their births the parents marriage may be recorded.

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The Common Room / Re: An interesting thought!
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 10:56 GMT (UK)  »
In Scotland it has always been the person who was registered to conduct a marriage ceremony not the place. Hence people could be married in places other than a church or registry office.
Though previously, talking of the last 50 years or so, you would be hard pushed to get an official to come unless it was for a very good reason i.e. terminal illness.

In saying that many marriage ceremonies took place in the brides home or that of the Minister.
Marriage in Scotland is not a sacrament.

In the early family history days I was totally foxed by a couple who came from Ross and Cromarty whose marriage I found, after much searching, had taken place in Edinburgh. The certificate was faded copperplate and had not reproduced well and I thought I must have made a mistake but meticulous cross referencing proved it correct.

As I live in Edinburgh I decided to drive to the said house on the certificate. It was a large stone built house in a very good area. I was even more confused.

On asking a friend with greater genealogical knowledge than me she said ”It sounds as if they ‘married in front of the Minister’ at the Manse.

OK half the puzzle solved.
On recounting the story to my husband and brother in law they then remembered, which has frequently happened after the event in researching their side  >:(, that their Dad had said the man in question was a stonemason and used to come to Edinburgh on the boats they brought the sandstone that built the outer areas of the town once it’s on local supply was exhausted.

I love these puzzles!

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The Common Room / Re: What info would be on Scottish birth certificate?
« on: Monday 12 February 24 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
Could you look them up on the 1921 census to see which area they are living in to narrow it down.
You could look at the valuation rolls for their family to find the area too.
Would there be a death notice in the papers which may give you key information.
Failing those you could ask if some some kind person would look it up if they are visiting the Scotlands people centre or Mitchel Library
Good luck

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Scotland / Re: When does a nickname become a wrong name?
« on: Wednesday 31 January 24 12:58 GMT (UK)  »
Does he mean a saints name ?

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Scotland / Re: When does a nickname become a wrong name?
« on: Tuesday 30 January 24 17:28 GMT (UK)  »
Seriously I think it’s probably the advent of the internet that made us so exacting with what we call ourselves.

People were often baptised with names that were hardly ever used, my father being a case in point.
Child no.9 arrived at school to be told another one of Sam ****** kids so just call him Sam and so it was until the internet. Although we put his registered names on his head stone we also put Sam at that’s what people in the village knew him as.

Pet names often stuck, especially at school if there were others of the same first name at school or it was the same name as a parent.

If you have good evidence to support that she used three different names then she is likely one and the same.


Have you followed through with birth, marriage, birth of children, census, death ?
If you are looking at a Scottish relative then you will have the advantage of her name being in her children’s birth certificates.

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Scotland / Re: When does a nickname become a wrong name?
« on: Tuesday 30 January 24 17:13 GMT (UK)  »
As long as they don’t want to fly on Ryan air  ;D ::)

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