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From: "Beverley Weston" <>
Subject: Re: SMITH/SCOTT/GAY/CORSTORPHINE
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 20:40:58 +1000


Hello Bill,

You wrote........

Hi Beverley
>
> I was looking through my IGI data < I think that is what it is> and I
>found the marriage between Geo. SMITH and Katherine GAY. Oct 10, 1823. @
>Kilrenny. Under the name Catherine GAY there is what appears to be the
same
>marriage to Geo. SMITH but @ Pittenweem. ? Stange. Same Date. On Jul.
>23, 1797 a Female Catherine GAY was christened @ Pittenweem. d/o Philip GAY
>/ Christine MELVILLE . Do you think there is any relation ? Birth 18
Jul.
>1797. Relative named was Alexander MELVILLE.
>
> I am a descendant of Robert GAYof Fife. I have yet to find the parish.
>The parish was not refered to in his obituary. I would say he was born
arond
>the 1790's.
>
>Bill Gay
>Family GAY Compiler
>Nova Scotia Canada.

Certainly think so!!!! The marriage was noted in Pittenweem and Kilrenny
parish. Not an uncommon practice in those times. While George and
Catherine/Katharine are not in my direct line, am fairly sure of my facts
about the realtionships in Cellardyke - the main fishing village in the
parish of Kilrenny.

Most of my data is from the Scottish Church Records which I find more
reliable that the IGI.

If you can give me any more information about the children of George Smith
and Catherine/Katharine Gay, I would be most obliged.

Happy hunting,

Bev Weston

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