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Marriage for Charles Allan and Mary Taylor (from Freereg)

Ordiquhill
27 May 1810
A note states " No proclamations were used as Charles Allan was a military man".

The next year July 20th, 1811 in the Ordiquhill Kirk Session minutes we have this " Compeared ( that word again!) Chs, Allan and his wife Mary Taylor and confessed that they had been guilty of antenuptial fornication". They had to pay up to be absolved! ( It is image number 29 in the Ordiquhill Minutes).

William

Hi Issi

What an interesting and intriguing search this is proving to be!
 
I did a Google search for Peter Allan Aberchirder and the top "hit" was the attached from Old Scottish. Look at the Allan and Allan or McKenzie entries.

https://www.oldscottish.com/criminal-records-banff.html

You will see that the entry for Adam Allan or McKenzie names his father as Peter Allan, dancing master.

I also believe that Peter was the father of the John Allan and William Allan or McKenzie. This is John Allan's baptism.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XB3F-DZB?lang=en

It is unfortunate that the Marnoch Kirk Session records only start at 1842 as Peter was probably censured before that date!

Adam, John and William can be located in the 1841/ 1851 censuses ( as Allan or McKenzie). They are with their mother in 1841 but not in 1851. Sit down for this part! The reason they are not with their mother in 1851 is because in 1845 Helen McKenzie was convicted of theft and sentenced ( with her brother John ) to seven years transportation and ended up in Tasmania. Here is a record from the Scottish Indexes database.

https://www.scottishindexes.com/jcdetail.aspx?jcid=1845084&pid=184508461

The case can be read about in the newspaper archive ( as can the cases with Adam, John and William).

Adam married in 1864. Here is a transcript of his marriage cert naming his parents as Peter Allan and Helen McKenzie,

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSSG-14R4?lang=en

I have actually downloaded the original and he names his father as Peter Allan, painter and his usual address as Aberchirder.

I think you have the basis of a good book here, Issi! And just one general point , having uncovered a large number of illegitimate births among my own Banffshire ancestors, illegitimacy did seem to sometimes run through the generations ( my g grandfather was illegitimate as was his mother, grandfather and g grandfather!).

William

If you have access to FindMyPast  try this. Do a general search for Peter Allan with Marnoch as the location.. Choose Directories and Social History from all categories. This produces one result from a  series of booklets called The People of Banffshire and Moray. The transcript has this for Peter Allan

1844
Marnoch
Censured for antenuptial fornication with Jane Chalmers.

This could, of course, be a different Peter Allan. I have now looked at the Kirk Session Records myself and cannot see the original there related to the above. Further confusion arises from the fact that there seems to be a baptism for a Jane Allan in 1846 with parents named as Peter Allan, a farm servant, and Jane Chalmers.

Apologies if this simply muddies the waters!

William

This would appear to be Margaret Allan's marriage details. Again her mother's maiden surname has been transcribed as Cowe.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TGJ-FZT7?lang=en

William

Banffshire has good coverage on Freereg (and Freecen). Here is the transcription that they have ( which I think you have already seen):

Place Marnoch
Birth 29 Apr 1843
Baptism 22 Mar 1844
Father Peter Allan
Mother Margaret Cowie
Abode Aberchirder
Father Occupation Painter
Witnesses James Reid and Elizabeth Gallon Registered 31 Dec 1855

This last line suggests a different/further entry in the parish register to the one posted . I think it would be worth looking at the Kirk Session Records.

The 1851 census transcripts that I can see have mother Margaret recorded as Margaret Cow. Might be worth viewing the original if you have not already done so.

William