can anyone help?

[parky96]

i obtained this cert yesterday and i am finding it difficult to decipher can anyone help me get a bit more info from it?
the cert is for the marriage of robert millar and agnes johnstone

[PaulaToo]

Not an easy one, is it.
All I can make out is
Thirteenth May

Groom looks as though he was a widower, the bride a spinster

Groom's father George Miller, mother Henrietta Miller

Bride's father and mother are deceased....

I'm sure someone who knows the area will be able to put together the place names.

[parky96]

thats kind of what i thought the place looks like mally ville but i have never heard of it before.all the info i really wanted off this cert is unreadable how frustrating. hopefully somebody will be able to help me.thanks anyway paula

[tika]

Your cert. reads as something like this: follows:

Married 13th May, 1890 @  ------  Villa, Dumfries.

Robert Millar, Railway Surfaceman.  (Widower)  29 years.
Usual Res: Collin, Torthorwald.
Father: George Millar,  --- Lab. (labourer not sure what kind.)
Mother:  Henrietta Millar, m.s. Maxwell.
Agnes Jane Johnstone. Domestic Servant. (Spinster) 28 years.
Usual Res:  -------, Greenbrae.
Father:  William Johnstone, Railway Surfaceman. (deceased)
Mother: Jane Johnstone m.s. Paterson. (deceased).

Hope this helps.

[jan57]

 the date looks like  30th  May  to me,  and  Mary  Villa  the place  ....

[tika]

Sorry, now I look at the cert. again the date reads 30th  May which will be correct as it was registered on 2nd June.

[parky96]

thanks tika that is a great help much appreciated.i was starting to get eye strain  

[parky96]

i thought it may be 30th may.but have you ever heard of a place caled mary villa?would it be a village or hamlet?could you get married at home in scotland as long as there was a minister present?perhaps it was the name of a house?

[PaulaToo]

Alan Burgess Crombie, architect 1845-1904
Son of Alexander Crombie of Dumfries.
the following private of business address associated with this architect

Maryville, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Maryville...?