Can't find marriage record.

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Dennis
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Can't find marriage record.

Post by Dennis » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:39 am

Hi:)

I'm trying to find a marriage record for the parents of Henry Muir, listed as James Muir & Barbara Guthrie on this his Death Record:

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-915


Thank you. dennis
Names of interest: Lennox McKenna Airth Skirving Veitch Laird Drysdale Bennett Colledge Baird Blades Barker Dow Mitchell Perkins Rielly Stewart Tulloch Wright Ure, Ritch Richardson, Whyte
Places of Interest: Dunbarney, Forfar, East London (S.Africa)
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AndrewP
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Post by AndrewP » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:56 am

Hi Dennis,

No sign of a marriage on the online IGI. A group of children to the couple is as follows.

BARBARA STRANG MUIR - Christening: 27 OCT 1804 Sanday, Orkney
JEAN MUIR - Christening: 03 SEP 1810 Sanday, Orkney
MARY MUIR - Christening: 19 JUL 1811 Sanday, Orkney
JAMES MUIR - Christening: 31 DEC 1814 Sanday, Orkney
HENRY MUIR - Christening: 14 APR 1817 Sanday, Orkney
WILLIAM MUIR - Christening: 02 APR 1820 Sanday, Orkney
MARY MUIR - Christening: 12 JAN 1823 Sanday, Orkney

All the best,

AndrewP
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Russell
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Post by Russell » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:06 am

Hi Dennis

I take you have tried all the usual wildcard combinations.

I was looking for a Barbara Guthrie (mine was in Ayrshire!) and it was the Bar*bra that got me. every other record we had was Barbara then we found both 1851 census and her second marriage (third marriage of my Gt-grandfather) were the different spelling.
Ayrshire again had my son-in-laws Muir family as Moor/Moore/Muir/Myre/Muire. M*r* found them but we had to winnow out the Mairs and Mortons first.

Some just don't want to be found do they ?

Russell
Working on: Oman, Brock, Miller/Millar, in Caithness.
Roan/Rowan, Hastings, Sharp, Lapraik in Ayr & Kirkcudbrightshire.
Johnston, Reside, Lyle all over the place !
McGilvray(spelt 26 different ways)
Watson, Morton, Anderson, Tawse, in Kilrenny
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AndrewP
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Post by AndrewP » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:15 am

Hi Dennis,

The OPRs for Sanday (Lady, Cross & Burness parishes) are only from 1818 onwards. This couple appear to have been married about 15 years before that, so if they were married there, then there is no OPR record to be found.

All the best,

AndrewP
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Dennis
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Post by Dennis » Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:48 am

Hi Andrew,

Only 1818 onward; I'll have to keep that in mind. I guess that's the end of the road for that line.

All the best. dennis
Names of interest: Lennox McKenna Airth Skirving Veitch Laird Drysdale Bennett Colledge Baird Blades Barker Dow Mitchell Perkins Rielly Stewart Tulloch Wright Ure, Ritch Richardson, Whyte
Places of Interest: Dunbarney, Forfar, East London (S.Africa)
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AndrewP
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Post by AndrewP » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:42 am

Hi Dennis,

The 1818 onwards applies to marriages only. The births are recorded for some time earlier. Details for the Sanday parishes , the United Parishes of Cross and Burness, and the Parish of Lady as follows.

26. SANDAY (CROSS AND BURNESS; and LADY)
26/1 Cross and Burness
B 1758-1836; B 1759 onwards North Ronaldsay
M -
D -

26/2 Lady
B 1735-1820
M 1818-20
D -

26/3 Cross and Burness
B 1820-54
M 1828-50
D -

26/3 Lady
B 1820-54
M 1820-56
D 1831-41

All the best,

AndrewP
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