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From: "Eileen" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Irregular marriages
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:09:11 -0700
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George:

That was struck down sometime in the 1940s, I believe.

Eileen Herkes

> An "irregular Marriage" or "hand fast" was a practice accepted (still is I
> believe) in Scotland where a couple could in front of at least one witness
> "take hands on" and become man and wife

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