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Recently had some information from a cousin and a researcher in Ardersier, Inverness suggesting that Donald, born 1821, married a Jane Clark 28 Mar 1848 Petty, Inverness, Scotland and again 12 Apr 1848 Ardersier, Inverness, Scotland.

No, they didn't get married twice. Before the marriage they lived in different parishes, so the banns had to be called in both parishes, so what you have is two records of the same event.

I have the marriage documents from Scotland's People but no parents listed.

It's rare for parents' names to be recorded in the church records of marriages. Once civil registration started in 1855 you do get the parents' names on a marriage certificate, including (unlike England, Wales and Ireland) the mothers' maiden surnames.

I'm suffering from confusing ecclesiastical geography, and I hope someone can help me sort it out, please.

Elizabeth Burgess or Anderson, widow of Duncan Anderson, died in Perth (the original one, not its namesake in Western Australia) in 1884 aged 75, parents Peter Burgess and Mary Scobie.

The Censuses all say that she was born in England; the 1881 says she was born in Ramsgate, Kent.

FindMyPast has an index listing of the baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and Mary Burgess, at St Lawrence, Kent on 15 June 1806. In its usual helpful way FindMyPast does not say where in Kent St Lawrence is.

However the index listing on FindMyPast is copied from FS, which says it is St Laurence in Thanet. It lists the record three times, one of which quotes the source as Canterbury parish registers.

So is Ramsgate in St Laurence, or is St Laurence in Ramsgate, or is this the wrong Elizabeth? And is/are Ramsgate and/or St Lau/wrence and/or Thanet in Canterbury? (I have gathered that Thanet includes more of Kent than just the former Isle of Thanet, and that Ramsgate is in Thanet.)

In my tree I have 28 people who were born at 12 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow between 1912 and 1966. One of them records the address as Park Nursing Home, 12 Claremont Terrace.

Also 7 born at 6 Claremont Terrace between 1921 and 1959 and 5 at 3 Claremont Terrace between 1930 and 1938.

The 1935 Valuation Roll lists nursing homes at Nos 1 (Proprietor Henrietta Gunn), 4 (Elizabeth Burns), 6 (Annie L Macpherson), and 12 (Elizabeth M Allan)

No 3 isn't listed at all in 1935, but it is listed as a nursing home in 1930, proprietor Elizabeth Burns.

So it looks as if you have four to choose from.

Would the birth of a child born in 1853, probably Coatbridge, to an unmarried woman be registered?

Possibly not.

There might be some mention in the minutes of the Kirk Session, if they have survived. I looked through the minutes of Old Monkland Kirk Session but did not find anything about your Marion Graham, but if she was a member of the Relief Church it probably wouldn't be in the parish kirk session records anyway.