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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: CG07 on Thursday 09 June 22 16:15 BST (UK)
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I need some help trying to decipher this marriage note from 1791, I have most of the words but there are a few I can't seem to work out.
John gray and Isobel Brown and? acknowledged?
god that they were ?? ?? at Denny the 25th
day of May 1791 and produced ?? to that
??
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....... clandestinely at Denny the 25th
day of May 1791 and produced lines to that
effect
Further down the page another couple were mentioned clandestinely marrying at Falkirk. Must have been a lot of it about. ;)
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End of line 1 and beginning of line 2 is ‘acknowledged’, i.e
……acknowled
ged…….
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....... clandestinely at Denny the 25th
day of May 1791 and produced lines to that
effect
Further down the page another couple were mentioned clandestinely marrying at Falkirk. Must have been a lot of it about. ;)
Thank you. Interesting, I've never come across that before!
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From the minutes of Denny kirk session:
Denny March 5th 1792
The Session met and Constituted Apeared John
Gray and Isobel Brown and Acknowledged that they
were clandestandly married at Denny the 25th May
1791 and being sutably exorted and rebucked were
absolved from the scandal and they also payed their fine.
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From the minutes of Denny kirk session:
Denny March 5th 1792
The Session met and Constituted Apeared John
Gray and Isobel Brown and Acknowledged that they
were clandestandly married at Denny the 25th May
1791 and being sutably exorted and rebucked were
absolved from the scandal and they also payed their fine.
Thanks for finding that, very interesting!