Pretended to be Married?.....

[LesleyB]

Hi all
I'm sure Eilthireach is correct in what he says - the only point I was trying to make, perhaps rather clumsily, was that if it was an irregular marriage then that does not necessarily mean it was not registered.

David's article is here:
http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3726

We seem to have lost dmh68's question along the way - there is a date given for the marriage of Robert Marshall Smith and Joan McKechnie on their son's birth certificate. I've had a look on SP too and there does not seem to be anything jumping out as very likely, apart from the same one Pinkshoes found.

Whatever type of marriage it was, it would be interesting to know if that same date and place was given on the birth registrations of any other children they had. Do you have note of any other children for this couple dmh68?

Best wishes
Lesley

[dmh68]

Thanks for the replies everyone - sorry to be slow in saying thanks, I've been on holiday so didn't want to appear ungrateful!

Sporran - yes, the 1947 death is connected. Agnes (Nancy) was the other child of the marriage but I haven't been able to track down any records of her (don't know place or year of birth I'm afraid although she was younger than her brother born in 1901 or even whether she married).

In fact it was this death certificate that made me question whether Joan and Robert were actually married in the first place as she's shown as 'single' on the death certificate although she uses her 'married' name. Another TalkingScot member did mention the possibility of there being a divorce but I think I need the marriage cert in order to be able to tell that......

LesleyB - I can't be sure of the occupation of Robert on the 1901 birth cert of his son - it looks like 'Fever', 'Fower' or perhaps 'Hewer'. They were living in a village called Ford near Lochgilphead at the time. Robert's shown as a Stone Mason as as being alive still on the son's marriage cert in 1934.

Thanks,

dmh68

[SarahND]

LesleyB - I can't be sure of the occupation of Robert on the 1901 birth cert of his son - it looks like 'Fever', 'Fower' or perhaps 'Hewer'.

I came across one of those the other day. I'm pretty sure it was this one on the Old Occupations list:

Feuar Landholder under feudal system paid a feu (fee) to the overlord

It sounds terribly archaic, but the one I found was fairly recent also, in rural Aberdeenshire.

Regards,
Sarah

[AndrewP]

A hewer was a miner or quarryman who worked at the coal/stone face. From the verb hew - to cut with blows.

All the best,

AndrewP