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The kirk required you to marry within forty days of officially intimating your intention to do so.

If the parties came from two separate parishes, a record would be made in both places. If you see this in the index, you should always look at each entry as one might contain extra information.

It is also worth looking at the minutes of the kirk session to see if there is any reference to the marriage there.

It is very variable. There are detailed 17th century burial records for some parishes. Mortcloth payments tend to be in the accounts, although sometimes no charge was made for its use and sometimes, instead of naming individuals, a total sum taken in for it in any particular month is given.

If the deceased was in receipt of a regular payment as one of the poor of the parish, there might be  reference to the payment for a coffin for them, or reference to the maintenance of any young children. No longer being on the poor roll might indicate that a person had died. Again, if there are records of annual seat rents, the disappearance of the person from the list might be an indication that they had died.

Berwick Advertiser, 21-5-1936:

     BERWICK ORGANIST LEAVES
                   £5,530
   £50 TO FORMER PUPIL AND FRIEND

   Dr Charles Trevor Gauntlett, Mus. Doc., of
6, Bankhill, Berwick, for 36 years organist at
Holy Trinity Parish Church, Berwick, and
formerly of Oswestry and Newcastle (who died
on December 30th last), son of the Rev. J. G.
Gauntlett, Swansea, left estate of the gross
value of £5,530, with net personality of £4,552.
Probate of his will, dated September 26th 1935,
has been granted to Barclays Bank, Ltd.
   He left £100 to his wife; £300 each to his
children Wilfred Trevor Gauntlett and Irene
Monica Gauntlett; £300 to his daughter, Audrey
Frances Helen Gauntlett on attaining majority;
£50 to his former pupil and friend, Leslie Fell;
and, subject to the disposal of his household
etc., effects, the residue upon trust for his
wife during her widowhood, with remainder to his
three children.

Midland Daily Telegraph, 9-2-1939:

Lady Canvasser wanted, able to sell good furni-
ture; 30/- per week and commission - Apply
before 2 p.m., Friday, February 10th, Lawson and
Co., Coventry, and 76, Walsgrave Road.