what information does a marriage record from 1779 hold

[barbarai]

Hi, i'm just starting to research my Scottish line and would like to know wether both parents names are included in marriage records from around 1779.
I have an Alexander Gordon marrying Margaret Gordon 24.10.1779 Glenmuick, Aberdeen and then what i assume is the same couple remarrying on 31.10.1779 Loch Lee, Angus, Their three children , Charles, James and Margaret were all baptised in Loch Lee.
I do have instances of other couples in my tree marrying within weeks in two nearby parishes but have never discovered the reason for this
Thank you


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[Elwyn Soutter]

What you have is a record of the reading of the banns, not of the marriage itself (though occasionally it may also contain the date of marriage). Where a couple came from different parishes, the banns were read in each parish, normally up to 3 times, and the date(s) were then recorded in the parish register. Consequently there are often two records with the couples names. But there was only one marriage.

[barbarai]

Ah thank you, I don't know why i didn't think of that myself!

[Elwyn Soutter]

Happy to help. And as to your original question about whether the parents names would be there, sadly the answer is no.

[barbarai]

Thank you once again.

[Isabel H]

There is a good explanation on the Scotlandspeople website. The bit about Old Parish Register marriages is here:
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=554&406

[barbarai]

Thank you

[Forfarian]

I do have instances of other couples in my tree marrying within weeks in two nearby parishes but have never discovered the reason for this.

What this means is that the couple resided in different parishes. The records in the parish registers are records of the proclamations of banns, though sometimes you also get the date of the actual marriage. If the lived in different parishes, the banns were called in both, so you get a double record of the same marriage. The disparity in the dates is usually just a difference in how the session clerk kept his records - some would record the proclamation when it was first called, and some would wait until it had been called three times before writing it down.