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Quote from: osprey on Friday 24 October 25 19:41 BST (UK)

the address of Park Circus was the registry office at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Park_Circus,_Glasgow

Whats the significance? He was homeless or of unknown address or he owned the freehold?

No significance. It is simply the name given to the registration district in which the event was registered. It doesn't mean that he lived there or died there or owned the building, or indeed had any connection with it at all.

The person I am chasing is Marion born 1823. I can't locate a birth certificate for her.

There isn't one to find, as birth certificates did not exist before the start of civil registration in 1855.

The best you could hope for would be a baptism, but there are many gaps in the registers of baptisms.

There is a death certificate, however; Marion Pennycook, mother's maiden surname Porteous, died in Inveresk and Musselburgh in 1886 aged 63.

The 1851 census lists a Marion Pennycook, aged 28, cook, born Lasswade, in the household of Thomas Constable in Duddingston.

Both these records put her birth in either 1822 or 1823, assuming they are accurate. And, of course, that they are one and the same person.

Helen Pennycook, other name Porteous, mother's surname Brunton, died in Cockpen in 1867, aged 75. Her death certificate might be worth a look.

NSW online index's are 'interesting'!

They certainly are!

Thank you for all the help, even if it hasn't got me anywhere so far. So if his age at death was 94, he could have been born in 1889 or 1890, not just in 1890. Which doubles the number of possible candidates.

Do NSW marriage certs name the couple's parents? In particular do they give the mothers' maiden surnames, not just their given names?

See the attached screenshot.

Does anyone know why two of the mothers have numbers instead of given names, or do the numbers actually mean something?

I'm interested in finding out who the parents of James MacFarlane were. James is commemorated in Newcastle Memorial Park, NSW, which gives his date of death as 22 September 1984 and suggests he was born in 1890 in Scotland.

He married Agnes Blair Harris, widow of Andrew Waldie, in 1935 in Auburn NSW. She was born in Glasgow in 1888, died in Islington, NSW, on 13 January 1956, and is also commemorated in Newcastle Memorial Park. I have plenty of information about Agnes and her family but nothing about James.