7 Bridgegate,Glasgow

[marysma]

Hi,

    I have just found my g,aunts marriage certificate.

Where married it has 7 Bridgegate,Glasgow,Aug 1920.

Does anyone know what this building was please.I am presuming it was a registry office.

Thanks in advance.
MM

[Lodger]

More than likely it would have been the bride's home. There were no Registry Offices before about 1948 or so.

It was very common to be married at home, usually on a Saturday evening when everyone had finished work, then next day the married couple would make a special visit to the church to be "kirked".  This would only apply to Presbyterians, Catholics were only ever married in the church or, if a mixed marriage, sometimes the vestry.

Lodger.

[Skoosh]

Mm,  there was a Free Church of Scotland in the Briggait (as we would call it) don't know the number, very short street, the manse was in St'Vincent Street........Skoosh.

[KirstyG]

Number 7 may be in the block on the corner of Bridgegate and Saltmarket above the Old Ship Bank. It is difficult to tell from Google streetview, but the building is old enough - one of the few remaining old ones.

Kirsty

[marysma]

Hi Skoosh & Lodger,

                                  thanks for the two interesting replies.

I have a copy of my g,aunts marriage certificate from SP.On the cert it has date and place(as above)then it says by declaration in the presence of Archibald Savage-Chauffeur and Robert Rophet?-Chauffeur. and Warrent of Sherriff Substitute of Lanarkshire.

G,aunt Mabel married a Marine Engineer whose residence is given as S.S Alineda(sp)of Boston that was docked in Rothesay,Clydebank.

Forgot to say that Mabel was born in Cardiff to Scottish parents,but her parents were from Banff.

MM

[marysma]

 Thanks Kirsty,I'll have a look.

MM

[weesmudge]

will have a look next time im in that area for you

[marysma]

 

  Cheers Weesmudge.


 MM

[MonicaL]

Hi MM

With the reference on the entry for the marriage being by Warrant of Sherriff Substitute, I wonder if it was a solicitor's office. There is this 1917 reference for example that shows a Writer (solicitor) at that address www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/30091/pages/5127/page.pdf

Monica