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World War One / Re: B.Q.M.S
« on: Tuesday 06 August 13 14:01 BST (UK) »
Was he serving in an Artillery regiment? If so the rank would have been Battery Quarter Master Sergeant.
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Northumberland / Re: Berwick and Scotland
« on: Wednesday 16 January 13 15:19 GMT (UK) »
You asked about North Berwick in 1371. It is in the county of East Lothian (not near Berwick on Tweed) and would have been part of the Kingdom of Scotland. Much earlier, before AD1000, it would have been part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria (which ran from the Humber to the Forth) but it was never part of England (which took over the southern parts of Northumbria from the Tweed southwards).
Jessie
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Midlothian / Re: Address
« on: Monday 08 August 11 13:08 BST (UK) »
The marriages shown on the certificate were irregular marriages. What would have happened was that the couple would have declared before witnesses that they were accepting each other as husband and wife. That was sufficient to constitute a marriage in Scotland at that time. They would have realised that it was desirable to have some sort of official record of their marriage. They would therefore have submitted a statement, signed by themselves and their witnesses, to the Sheriff who would then have issued a warrant for the the marriage to be entered on the official register. The address at 35 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh was that of the Sheriff Court. No sort of wedding ceremony would have taken place there - it is merely the address from which the administrative process of issuing the warrant took place.
This process was used by people who either did not want a religious marriage or just wanted to avoid the formalities such a proclamation (banns).
Jessie Denholm
This process was used by people who either did not want a religious marriage or just wanted to avoid the formalities such a proclamation (banns).
Jessie Denholm
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Occupation Interests / Re: Bailie of Keler
« on: Tuesday 17 May 11 14:28 BST (UK) »
Hello again
I would be 99% certain, without having seen the original, that he was in 1841 a Bailie of Kelso. He lived in Kelso and would have not have been a Bailie of some other town - besides there is nowhere called Keler in the area. I will, however, have a look at the 1841 census on microfilm just to check but I may not get round to doing this until next week. I will also check to see if there is a history of Kelso that might mention him. I do not think, however, that there is any reason to doubt that he was a Bailie. This was an office that would come to town councillors in turn and in 1841 he was no doubt very proud of the fact that he had become a Bailie. This was probably why he gave that as his occupation rather than his profession of writer - which was how he earned his living.
Incidentally in 19th century Scotland a writer is always a lawyer (nowadays we would call him a solicitor) rather than a person who wrote books.
Jessie
I would be 99% certain, without having seen the original, that he was in 1841 a Bailie of Kelso. He lived in Kelso and would have not have been a Bailie of some other town - besides there is nowhere called Keler in the area. I will, however, have a look at the 1841 census on microfilm just to check but I may not get round to doing this until next week. I will also check to see if there is a history of Kelso that might mention him. I do not think, however, that there is any reason to doubt that he was a Bailie. This was an office that would come to town councillors in turn and in 1841 he was no doubt very proud of the fact that he had become a Bailie. This was probably why he gave that as his occupation rather than his profession of writer - which was how he earned his living.
Incidentally in 19th century Scotland a writer is always a lawyer (nowadays we would call him a solicitor) rather than a person who wrote books.
Jessie
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Occupation Interests / Re: Bailie of Keler
« on: Sunday 15 May 11 20:41 BST (UK) »
Are you sure that the word is Keler? Could it be Kelso in very bad handwriting?
You mention that on the next census his occupation was that of writer - i.e he was a lawyer. He would be just the sort of person who would have been on the town council in a small place like Kelso. A Bailie was a senior councillor and would sit in the local court as a magistrate. Possibly the nearest equivalent in an English town would be an Alderman.
Jessie
You mention that on the next census his occupation was that of writer - i.e he was a lawyer. He would be just the sort of person who would have been on the town council in a small place like Kelso. A Bailie was a senior councillor and would sit in the local court as a magistrate. Possibly the nearest equivalent in an English town would be an Alderman.
Jessie
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Scotland / Re: Sheriff Substitute
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 12:29 BST (UK) »
Sorry to have to contradict you but a Sheriff in Scotland is a judge - not a JP or magistrate. Before 1971 each county (or sometimes a group of counties) would have a Sheriff who had an extensive civil and criminal jurisdiction. The Sheriff was probably not resident in the area and a Sheriff Substitute would be appointed to reside there and preside over the local Sheriff Court and attend to the day to day business - with a jury in some cases. Without going into great detail on Scottish legal history, I would suggest that the best way to look at this is to think of the Sheriff as dealing with a middle range of crime between the petty crime dealt with by local magistrates and the really serious stuff that would be tried in the High Court of Justiciary. On the civil side he would deal with small to medium sized cases and major cases would be handled in the Court of Session in Edinburgh. He also had administrative duties as shown in the reference to marriages being by Sheriff's warrant.
Nowadays we have a Sheriff Principal for a wide regional area and Sheriffs who try most of the cases in the Sheriff Court - the word Substitute has been dropped.
Sorry if this seems over pedantic but I would like to emphasise that a Sheriff has much more extensive powers than a magistrate.
Jessie
Nowadays we have a Sheriff Principal for a wide regional area and Sheriffs who try most of the cases in the Sheriff Court - the word Substitute has been dropped.
Sorry if this seems over pedantic but I would like to emphasise that a Sheriff has much more extensive powers than a magistrate.
Jessie
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Midlothian / Re: Catholic Burials
« on: Monday 18 April 11 13:18 BST (UK) »
The likelihood is that they would be buried in Mount Vernon cemetery - this is the Catholic cemetery for Edinburgh. I'm not quite sure when it was opened but I think would be open by the 1890s. If it was not then they would have had to be buried in the same cemeteries as the rest of the population in which case Rosebank or Seafield are the most likely choices.
Jessie
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Midlothian / Re: combe family newhaven
« on: Tuesday 05 April 11 12:36 BST (UK) »
Just to add a bit more information. about the family of John Combe and Grace Christie. Grace died on 17 June 1853, aged 43. the cause of death was given as Child Birth. The child was presumably Robert who was mentioned by terry hastie in his post on 10 October 2010. Robert died on 27 November 1853 and the cause of death was given as teething. Thomas Combe died 11 August 1852. aged 6 years, cause of death Disease in Heart. Ann Kerr Combe died 26 July 1851, aged 1year 1 month, cause of death Consumption. They are all buried in Rosebank Cemetery Edinburgh.
Jessie
Jessie
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Midlothian / Re: Daniel Taylor Edinburgh
« on: Saturday 02 April 11 18:54 BST (UK) »
Hello Jo
The 1841 Census shows a William Taylor, a recruit in the Royal Artillery at Leith Fort. His age was given as 20 -which in the 1841 census could be anything from 20 to 24. He was born in Scotland but not in Midlothian.
If Daniel was baptised in the chapel at Leith Fort, I would expect that the baptism would have been in the records of St James Episcopal Church Leith. The baptism records of this church are held in the National Archives of Scotland (per the online catalogue) but are not available online. Perhaps you might find someone on Rootschat who could look them up if you cannot go there yourself.
Regards
Jessie
The 1841 Census shows a William Taylor, a recruit in the Royal Artillery at Leith Fort. His age was given as 20 -which in the 1841 census could be anything from 20 to 24. He was born in Scotland but not in Midlothian.
If Daniel was baptised in the chapel at Leith Fort, I would expect that the baptism would have been in the records of St James Episcopal Church Leith. The baptism records of this church are held in the National Archives of Scotland (per the online catalogue) but are not available online. Perhaps you might find someone on Rootschat who could look them up if you cannot go there yourself.
Regards
Jessie