Two dates sourced for marriage and have many Scottish Ancestors associated with this couple May and June 1730 either directly or other branches of Hay line.
These are two records of the same event. The church records are in fact records of the proclamation of banns and not necessarily of the wedding ceremony. If a couple lived in two different parishes the banns were proclaimed in both, and this generated two records.
You need to go to
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and view both original documents to see what (if any) other information they contain. This could be the date of the actual wedding, the name of the officiating minister, where the couple lived, and even, just conceivably, the name of the bride's father.
Unfortunately I have been unable to source any other official records for my Ancestral 5th Great Grandparents John Hay and Isobel Lockie (Isabel) no matter which site I use to research.
See
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=714261.0Basically, as far back as 1730 and earlier, if there is nothing on Scotland's People there probably are no surviving earlier records at all, and certainly none online. There is no other site that has more information than Scotland's People.
Do have a baptism record for Isobel Lockie - 1704 - sourced on IGI - which has been attached to her data in my Ancestry File for many years
Never trust anything you find in the IGI or elsewhere online unless it's an image of an original document.
In particular, it is never safe to assume that the only candidate is the right candidate, because at this early date there are many people whose baptism records, if they ever existed have not survived.
There are in fact eight baptisms of Is*bel* L*ckie in the Borders and East Lothian, all but one of whom (who was too old) might be the one who married John Hay. See attachment.
Unless you have independent evidence to prove that one or other Isobel Lockie is the one who married John Hay in 1730, you cannot reliably attach her to your tree.
already have several Ancestors born in Lilliesleaf and this has been confirmed as correct link to my Roxburghshire Ancestors
Are these ancestors Hays or Lockies? How exactly has it been confirmed that they are definitely your ancestors?
Not actually sure how to proceed when so far back with dates concerned
You may actually have got back as far as the surviving records will allow.
Have you checked
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk to see if any of them left a will? What about gravestones? The names of their children might give a clue to the names of their parents,
if they followed the naming tradition:
First daughter after mother's mother
Second daughter after father's mother
Third daughter after mother
First son after father's father
Second son after mother's father
Third son after father
Subsequent children after great-grandparents, uncles/aunts, other relatives, friends, minister/doctor/laird/schoolmaster/prominent citizen or their wives.
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