marriage by warrant

patjohn · Post by **patjohn** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:44 pm

Can anyone tell me what a marriage by Sheriff's Warrant was in 1899 and a Marriage by declaration

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:49 pm

Hi Patjohn
I hope this may help explain:
http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3726
Best wishes
Lesley

patjohn · Post by **patjohn** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:02 pm

Great thank you. Just one question. Would it be likely that such a marriage would be because the woman was 8 months pregnant at the time. Mind you they still had 2 different addresses. Times don't change!!

Pat

Post by **AnneM** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:04 pm

Possibly the urgency might have been a factor but there are all sorts of other possible considerations such as difference of religious affiliation or no such affiliation at all.

Anne

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:04 pm

patjohn wrote:Great thank you. Just one question. Would it be likely that such a marriage would be because the woman was 8 months pregnant at the time. Mind you they still had 2 different addresses. Times don't change!!

Pat

Hi Pat

Such an "urgency" factor is one reason for such an irregular marriage, as a good proportion of ministers still weren't prepared, even at that date, to marry a couple in such circumstances, unless due penance was made for the pre-nuptial fornication

By that date, the power of the kirk was much diminished from the situation a 100 or more years earlier, so that many more couples, in such a situation, went the perfectly legal irregular marriage route.

Even if the birth took place before the marriage, regular or irregular, many folk don't realise that, under Scots Law, the subsequent marriage automatically legitimated the child (or children), but only as long as the parents were free to marry at the time of the birth (some authorities argue that it was the date of the conception that ruled !).

David