Cant find a marriage record or license..

[muddinmom]

I can't find any official marriage record of the marriage of my ancestors named William Trotter and Caroline Dill. William is supposed to be from Scotland and is beleived to be a decendant of the Earl Of Gowry. Caroline is from England. They were beleived to be married on 1724 in Slinford, Sussex, England. And had their first child James Trotter Sr. in 1725.
Sometimes afterwards, they moved to Brunswick County, Virginia in the United States. Which is were their other two kids were born. The other children were named Phillip Trotter and Nancy Trotter. The only information I have of William & Caroline's marriage is family letters. But in order to make it legitite I need actual proof. A family member wrote and had a book published called Trotter Genealogy: The Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi Trotter Line.1725-1948. By Mrs. I.P Trotter. The book has information on the marriage but it's only family records. The book also talks about our family from England and Scotland..
  If anyone knows anything or if you can help me find records or if you know of anyone then please reply back. It would be greatly appreciated...

[PrueM]

Hi Muddinmom 

The IGI (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true)  has a submitted record for the marriage, showing it took place in "Gowery, Scotland" about 1720.  However
there is no record of a William TROTTER marrying Caroline DILL on ScotlandsPeople (http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk).

The IGI entry also says that William was born in "Durham, Scotland" - now I don't know whether there is actually a Durham in Scotland, but there's definitely one in England!

You probably have already seen this webpage which repeats the Slinford, Sussex information:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gwt1/TrotterD/TrotterWmDec.html

According to the list of IGI batch numbers available at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm
the marriage registers for Slinford should be shown online, however a search comes up with no matches for either of your names.

Sorry to throw so many websites at you, I wasn't sure what you had already looked at!

It may be worth having someone look at the parish registers for Slinford (or ordering the film of the registers through your local LDS family history centre).  What are the family records you mention, that have been used as the basis for the Trotter book?

Prue

[PrueM]

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