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From: "Ray Hennessy" <>
Subject: Re: Re:[ABERDEEN] St Nicholas marriage
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 00:36:24 +0100


I am re-posting this message becuase it seems to have got lost between
me and Rootsweb. Apologies if you all get a duplicate. Ray

Hi EB

There's a further idea worth adding to Gavin's reply.
We discovered one marriage in Aberdeen St Nicholas in
the 18th C where there was far more detail than "usual".

The woman's family were obviously important and there
were details of her father, including address and profession,
plus the names, rank and departments of witnesses who were
professors at Aberdeen University. I think the Minister liked
to record every detail for influential clients!

If you are lucky enough to have a member of such a family
[and we haven't quite established the link in our case :-( ]
then you may find a lot more detail and a positive link or
links to a previous generation.

If nothing else serves, it might be worth getting a copy of
the original entry. If you are a member of anesfhs, they will
send you a print-out from the original film at cost. If you are
not in anesfhs, you could order a printed copy through
Scotland's People for a cost of £10 [2003 price].

[BTW: Remember that the "No Image" legend on ScP
means that it hasn't been digitised; the film can still be
copied - although the quality may be poor.]

Good luck

Ray Hennessy

Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Bell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: Re:[ABERDEEN] St Nicholas marriage


> "E. B." wrote:
>
> > I jave been on the Scotland peoples site and found my
> > ancestor GEORGE WALKER'S marriage. unfortunately
> > there is no image and I am now no nearer to going back another
> > generation.
>
> Sadly, a sight of the original entry is unlikely to give you that
> extra generation. In the great majority of cases, "marriage" entries
> before 1855 give no more than the names of the couple. In fact, many
> entries in the registers actually recorded not the ceremony of
> marriage, but one or other of the "proclamations" or readings of the
> banns. If you are lucky, you may be told the occupation of the groom,
> and, if either party was not native to
> the parish, then you may learn his/her parish of birth.
>
> Your best bet for finding out the names of his and his wife's parents
> is to hope that they survived until at least 1855, and died in
> Scotland, since civil death records record the names of the deceased's
> parents (assuming, of course, that whoever
> reoprted the death actually knew).
> Gavin Bell

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