I think this is Helen's sister, Anne, and brother Edward in 1851 from FREECEN.
Piece: SCT1851/416 Place: Collessie -Fife Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: Collessie Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: Collessie
Folio: 0 Page: 3 Schedule: 9
Address: 1 Denhead
Surname First name(s) Rel Status Sex Age Occupation Where Born Remarks
MCDIARMID Duncan Head M M 33 H L Weaver Linen London - -
MCDIARMID Anne Wife M F 35 Perth - Dunblane
MCDIARMID Hellen Dau - F 4 Fife - Auchtermuchty
MCDIARMID Betsey Dau - F 3 Fife - Auchtermuchty
MCDIARMID Christina Dau - F 10m Fife - Auchtermuchty
HORN Euphemia Dau - F 14 H L Weaver Linen Fife - Auchtermuchty
PEDDIE Christina Dau - F 10 Fife - Auchtermuchty
ADAMS Edward Brolaw - M 17 Weaver Linen Fife - Auchtermuchty
Happy hunting.
Regards,
Annette
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Re: Deciphering a marriage record
Use of word “spinster”on registration forms.
Glasgow Herald, Friday, April 9, 1897
CURIOUS CASE OF FALSE REGISTRATION.—In Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday Mary Jane Warren, a young woman, pleaded guilty to a charge of having on 22d December, 1896, in the office of the registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, made a false statement to the effect that she was a spinster, contrary to the Registration of Births, &c., Act. Mr Pitkeathley, solicitor, who appeared for the accused, said that she was married about eight years ago to a soldier in a Hussar regiment, and afterwards bought him off. At the end of three months he went to America. She heard nothing about him for the next six years, and ultimately believed him to be dead. Falling in with another man, she married him, and it was in connection with this matter that she committed the offence. She ought to have described herself as a widow, for she had been unable to trace her husband, and, as a matter of fact, the police had been unable to find that he was alive. It was questionable if the woman really knew the meaning of the word "spinster," and the agent could not find any definition of the term in the Act referred to. Sheriff M'Conochie dismissed the accused with a few words of warning.
The word “spinster” doesn't appear in the Act but it does in the guidelines. See Schedule C at the bottom of this page. http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/Vie ... s&mno=4048
The word “single” doesn't appear anywhere.
Alan
Glasgow Herald, Friday, April 9, 1897
CURIOUS CASE OF FALSE REGISTRATION.—In Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday Mary Jane Warren, a young woman, pleaded guilty to a charge of having on 22d December, 1896, in the office of the registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, made a false statement to the effect that she was a spinster, contrary to the Registration of Births, &c., Act. Mr Pitkeathley, solicitor, who appeared for the accused, said that she was married about eight years ago to a soldier in a Hussar regiment, and afterwards bought him off. At the end of three months he went to America. She heard nothing about him for the next six years, and ultimately believed him to be dead. Falling in with another man, she married him, and it was in connection with this matter that she committed the offence. She ought to have described herself as a widow, for she had been unable to trace her husband, and, as a matter of fact, the police had been unable to find that he was alive. It was questionable if the woman really knew the meaning of the word "spinster," and the agent could not find any definition of the term in the Act referred to. Sheriff M'Conochie dismissed the accused with a few words of warning.
The word “spinster” doesn't appear in the Act but it does in the guidelines. See Schedule C at the bottom of this page. http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/Vie ... s&mno=4048
The word “single” doesn't appear anywhere.
Alan