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Re: Marriage 1762 Dysart
« Reply #9 on: Friday 26 June 20 22:27 BST (UK) »
Hi Westee. Curiosity got the better of me so I looked at both entries. The 1791 is Margaret. It has Marg and then the rest goes up in a loop. The 1792 one is Mary with a loop on the Y. Hope I have explained this ok and cropped the images properly. Hope this helps.
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Re: Marriage 1762 Dysart
« Reply #10 on: Friday 26 June 20 22:32 BST (UK) »
Certainly looks like the same handwriting.

I wonder .... is it possible that the 1792 entry was made from some old notes which the clerk has misread as Mary when it should have been Margaret?

It just seems rather a big coincidence if a James Haldane married a Margaret Anderson in 1791 and a different James Haldane married a Mary Anderson a year later.

Or maybe Margaret died and her widower then married her sister or cousin?

Speculation, speculation ....
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Re: Marriage 1762 Dysart
« Reply #11 on: Friday 26 June 20 22:45 BST (UK) »
Forfarian looking at the full images of both entries it is definitely the same handwriting.

Could be a remarriage for James Haldane if Margaret Anderson died and then he married Mary Anderson.

Or it could be two different couples. Perhaps related to each other in some way - cousins perhaps? I have come across this before and it was a nightmare to sort out.

Pure speculation as you say.

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Re: Marriage 1762 Dysart
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 27 June 20 08:22 BST (UK) »
Tis a problem for me insofaras I can't find a thing for a Margaret Haldane; no death no children.


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Re: Marriage 1762 Dysart
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 27 June 20 08:30 BST (UK) »
But I wonder why in 1791 OPR 'Margaret' is written out in full for Jas. Tod and Margaret Fleming; whereas all the others on the same page are shortened to look like 'Mary'.
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Re: Marriage 1762 Dysart
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 27 June 20 09:55 BST (UK) »
We will never know why only one was written in full as Margaret.

Remember though that not all birth, marriages and deaths were recorded way back then nor have all survived prior to official registration in 1855.

Dorrie
Small, County Antrim & Dundee
Dickson, County Down & Dundee
Madden, County Westmeath
Patrick, Fife
Easson, Fife
Leslie, Fife
Paterson, Fife