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The Common Room / Re: Having your banns read
« on: Tuesday 10 January 12 00:51 GMT (UK)  »
I have ancestors in Scotland who had a 2 year gap between posting banns and marriage.
1702 marriage records 'a pledge restored'. Banns were posted 2 years earlier in 1700. The fact that the pledge was restored may indicate that they participated in 'handfasting'. This custom allowed a couple to live together for a year and a day at which time they could decide whether to part or to make a lifelong commitment. It was considered more important for the bride to be experienced and fertile than to be a virgin.

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Midlothian / Re: Help with old Scottish record please
« on: Monday 09 January 12 19:00 GMT (UK)  »
OGTP stands for Old Greyfriar's Tolbooth Parish.

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Midlothian / Re: Burial Index's for Newbattle and Newton
« on: Wednesday 28 December 11 19:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Carol. I grew up in Dalkeith and now live in Canada. I wish I had been interested in genealogy when I lived there... I have researched my Lockhart family and have an enormous amount of information. I'm sure there will be Lockharts buried there - a high percentage of the men were miners. Thanks in advance.

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Canada / Re: Road block
« on: Monday 19 December 11 20:24 GMT (UK)  »
That would be my Ancestry tree - Lockharts of Midlothian

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Australia / Re: SMH Look-up - Issue dated Thur May 3, 1984
« on: Tuesday 13 December 11 03:07 GMT (UK)  »
I tried a couple of websites to search for data you supplied and no results for the specified paper, name or date!

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Canada / Re: Road block
« on: Monday 12 December 11 20:17 GMT (UK)  »
In 1881 he is on Scottish census
Haven't found him on 1891 Canadian census but he married again as a widow in Toronto in August 1891 so he may have missed the Canadian census if he was in the US prior to Canadian census.
Can't find him on 1901 Canadian census although I can find his family living at 118 Toronto West, Ward 4
In 1910 he dies - address Robert St, Toronto

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Canada / Re: Road block
« on: Sunday 11 December 11 23:00 GMT (UK)  »
It would appear that data prior to 1925 is not available online or am I incorrect?

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Canada / Re: Road block
« on: Saturday 10 December 11 23:51 GMT (UK)  »
James was born 25 Dec 1853 in Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Jessie was born about 1860 in Edinburgh - I think her middle name was Allan and her last name Scott.
They married 1878 in Leith South, Midlothian, Scotland
first born son James was born April 1879 in Leith - I have been able to trace him as an adult living in Canada and have visited his grave (I live in Canada although born in Scotland)
Second son Peter Allan was born Jun 1882 in Leith.
Daughter Mabel's birth 4 Feb 1887 in Brooklyn New York

I'm assuming that they emigrated from Scotland - probably Glasgow but they could have sailed from and English port.

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Warwickshire Lookup Requests / Re: Death and cemetery records
« on: Saturday 10 December 11 01:01 GMT (UK)  »
I found the births of 6 children but no marriage so far

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