Bigamous marriage

[casserole]

Could someone tell me if the subject of a bigamous marriage has been covered somewhere on the forum?

I printed off a marriage from scotlandspeople last night and on the lefthand side beside the details of the groom there are two stamps. One says 'bigamy' with some numbers which look like 'vol 1 8 92' but this is just a guess as the print is not clear.

The marriage took place in Lanark on 12 December 1879

Looking forward to learning more about this subject. Would there be other details of this in a seperate register?
Carole

[DavidWW]

Could someone tell me if the subject of a bigamous marriage has been covered somewhere on the forum?

I printed off a marriage from scotlandspeople last night and on the lefthand side beside the details of the groom there are two stamps. One says 'bigamy' with some numbers which look like 'vol 1 8 92' but this is just a guess as the print is not clear.

The marriage took place in Lanark on 12 December 1879

Looking forward to learning more about this subject. Would there be other details of this in a seperate register?
Carole

Hi Carole

The LH column entry will be something "Bigamy, RCE Vol.?? 1892", possibly within an oval stamp; this being a reference to an entry in the Register of Corrected Entries.

In that RCE entry there will be the details of the court, date of conviction, et,., etc., in regard to the bigamy.

Images of these RCE entries are due on line in the near future at ScotlandsPeople.

David

[casserole]

Hello David,

Thank you for your reply. So, I'm back to the RCE. I've just had a 'lesson' about that on the General forum because I had a couple of deaths which were due to accidents.

That's great, I know all about RCEs so I'll take it from here. The print is so unclear that I can't see RCE but the numbers should help to track it.

Thank you once again
Carole

[DavidWW]

Hello David,

Thank you for your reply. So, I'm back to the RCE. I've just had a 'lesson' about that on the General forum because I had a couple of deaths which were due to accidents.

That's great, I know all about RCEs so I'll take it from here. The print is so unclear that I can't see RCE but the numbers should help to track it.

Thank you once again
Carole

Sounds like a guid song tune somewhere in there - "Back to to RCEs"

Indeed !

In the RCE you are most likely to get the date and place of the bigamous marriage, never mind the new "partner", plus, possibly, any sentence handed down by the judge, - you may need to follow up in the High Court of Justiciary records at National Archives of Scotland (or was it a Session Court matter, being a civil matter, - now there's a question , - naw, I'm sure that it was a case of a criminal conviction........)

David

[AnneM]

It would be a criminal matter.

Anne

[Bertha]

Hi
I too had a bigamous marriage, groom was sentenced to 15 mths in Perth Prison this was in 1868 or there abouts. No RCE recorded on the bigamous marriage though but there are records on the National Archives site which gave me the basic details. Also is was covered in the Scotsman in quite good detail.
Regards
Bertha

[DavidWW]

Hi
I too had a bigamous marriage, groom was sentenced to 15 mths in Perth Prison this was in 1868 or there abouts. No RCE recorded on the bigamous marriage though but there are records on the National Archives site which gave me the basic details. Also is was covered in the Scotsman in quite good detail.
Regards
Bertha

There was considerable confusion after the introduction of civil registration in 1855 as to the exact purpose of the RCE procedure, and just which types of situations and events should be recorded via an RCE entry.

As with other situations, I'd imagine, - but I'm by no means certain!, - that the information on a conviction for bigamy in the High Court of Justiciary would have been supplied to the Registrar General, resulting in an RCE entry and an annotation to that effect on the 1855 or later marriage register entry.

It wouldn't surprise me, however, if this procedure didn't take place in the first few years of civil registration; not least if the original marriage in question was pre-1855

David

[Bertha]

Thanks David
Next time I am in at NRH I will see if there is an actual RCE for this one. The original marriage took place in Aberdeen in 1864, the bigamous one in Edinburgh 1868 and he was convicted March 1969.
Regards
Bertha

[DavidWW]

Thanks David
Next time I am in at NRH I will see if there is an actual RCE for this one. The original marriage took place in Aberdeen in 1864, the bigamous one in Edinburgh 1868 and he was convicted March 1969.
Regards
Bertha

Have you tried the NAS on-line catalogue ?

David

[StewL]

... and he was convicted March 1969.
Bertha

I hope you meant 1869 Bertha, I have heard about the long arm of the law but 100years