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Quote from: Gill87 on Sunday 05 February 12 17:55 GMT (UK)

Going back and looking at the marriage certificate for James Gray Donaldson and Jane Kennedy I can see the same stamp in the margin - this stamp must be added in the event of a divorce, although there is no entry in the amended entries.

Yes. There is no need for an entry in the Register of Corrected Entries, because the stamp says all that the Registrar needed to know.

I've found a couple of divorces and both had an RCE, one with a great level of detail on the circumstances.  If there is not a link to view the RCE, I would suggest contacting Scotlandspeople as they can supply a copy if it is not available to view.

I know this accident is listed on cmhrc.co.uk but I thought you might be interested in the original since many of the extra details are not included in that site.  It always pays to check originals!  The info is very brief and doesn't really add to what you already know but still worth having. 

This is from the Reports of the inspectors of mines for 1861, inspector was John Hedley

Image of table headers and entry for H Price
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~miningvillages/price1.jpg
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~miningvillages/price-headers.jpg

Additional information from main body of report
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~miningvillages/price-main.jpg

Please download these images as I can't guarantee they won't be deleted during site updates.

I logged on to the new site first time and to be honest I hated it

Then I came back and it was OK

And then today, I can’t remember what the old site looked like and no longer notice the new design, although on the whole I think it looks fresh and up-to-date.   There are things I don’t like, but they are basically the same things I always didn’t like about Rootschat, which never stopped me using it since it is an interesting community which I enjoy dipping in to.

It must be gutting to Trystan and others to read some of the negative posts stating people won’t be back based on initial impressions, as I know this will have taken a lot of work.  I can only encourage people to give it time to get used to it, and remember that the main part of Rootschat – the community – is still the same!

Joyce

If your ancestor lived in a mining community there's a helpful page here which goes into great length about it.  I've not seen such a good description in any of the Scottish mining sites.

A coal lumper was not a mining occupation, at least not in Scotland - the link you give refers to dock labourers.

There is a small article in the Dunfermline Journal on 29 October 1921

Drowned in Wash Tub
Child’ Death At Jamphlars
James Low, aged one year and eight months, son of Alexander Stewart Low, hutch-mender, 16 Balgonie terrace, Jamphlars, met his death while at play on Tuesday afternoon.
The child had apparently been amusing himself with a stick at a tub of water in the washing-house adjoining his home and during his mother’s absence had fallen into the water, which was nine inches deep.
The mother, on returning, found the body of the child, and Dr Low, who was immediately summoned, declared life to be extinct.