Thanks to all responders. Having invested in some of Scotland's People, it becomes more of a puzzle. The register in Fife (where the groom was minister) records that the banns were duly published, and the couple were married in Edinburgh on 2nd February [1825]. The Edinburgh parish register entry records their marriage as having been on 23 January "3 pro, no objection". I take this to mean 3 proclamations of banns.
The bride was shown in the Kilrenny register as residing in Edinburgh.
No number in Dundas Street is shown in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, where I first found the marriage, or in either register entry.
In the light of what you kind people have said, I conclude that the marriage was at the bride's residence, and not the kirk.
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I'm interested to read about your links to these old Kilrenny ministers. I was brought up in the former fishing village of Cellardyke, the main centre of population in Kilrenny parish, and I have been researching our local history since the early 1980s. I wrote a book about the village which came out in 1986, and of course I have often come across the Revs. Forrester and Brown in my researches.
James Forrester was minister of Anstruther Wester for 30 years before transferring to Kilrenny for a further 10 years. The Kilrenny OPR for 1808 records that "The Revd. James Forrester, Minr. of this parish, after Two years debility of body and mind, died at his house in Gilmour place, Edinr., on the 5th Decr. 1808, in the 63rd year of his Age, and 40th of his Ministry."
That street is now spelt Gilmore Place. I lived there for three years as a student in the 1960s.
The Rev. James Brown was married in 1821 at Kilrenny to Ann Rankine, daughter of Captain William Rankine, the tenant of Barnsmuir, near Kilrenny. She was very popular with the local people, so much so that several baby girls were called after her, including my 2 x great-grandmother Ann Rankine Gellatly. Unfortunately Ann Rankine or Brown died in 1823 after only two years of marriage. Two years later again the Rev. Brown married Mary Forrester. Mr. Brown died in 1834 aged 45. He and his 1st wife Ann Rankine are buried in an enclosure by the north wall of Kilrenny churchyard with a marble tablet which is very informative about the family. One descendant lived in Los Angeles. Strangely enough there is no mention of Mary Forrester on the tablet and I don't know when and where she died.
Capt. Rankine was succeeded as tenant of Barnsmuir by George Fortune, who married a daughter of the Rev. Brown and Ann Rankine. There is some dispute about which daughter he married. Another of my 2 x great-grandmothers, Marjorie Myles from Crail, would become cook and housekeeper at Barnsmuir!
Harry
