Marriage, St Vincent Street, Glasgow

[Okonski]

In my particular example, the address was also given as their place of residence, so that might rule out a Solicitor's office - but I can see the sense of it. Incidentally, Blytheswood wasn't particularly near any court/s (The Sheriff Court) was way down at the bottom of the hill in Ingram Street (Lanarkshire House), before moving a tad further up the street with more courts and a bespoke building!

[chalfontcrew]

I have another Glasgow marriage were the newspaper report give the marriage address as Sherriffs Office, Ingram Street but the marriage certificate says 136 Buchanan Street, I think someone told me the office was on the corner.

[Okonski]

The two locations are around 500m apart, unless after 1920, then it would be 750m.  Buchanan Street is largely pedestrianised now, but the address you give is quite a way up the hill and more likeley to be a Solicitor's office(or other marriage location) than an office of the Court - but at the end of the day, at least the records do exist! <g>

[Izzy]

I dont know if this is the same as yours but it may shed some light.
My grandmother married in 1908 to her first husband a sailor at her home address by sherriffs warrent I didnt understand this but I've now learnt apparently a justice would visit the home of person to be married and  would announce them wed
they would then take certificate to regestary office and pay for it to be registered but sometimes people couldnt afford to pay the fee so didnt bother with registration. I hope this helps.
Izzy

[chalfontcrew]

Thanks Izzy and Okonski,

I think my first couple were married at home at 478 Vincent Street in 1870.

My second couple got a warrant in Ingrams Street then got married at 136 Buchanan Street, I typed the address into google and it came up with with a coffee bar called Esquires, looking at the picture I am guessing that it was a solicitors office in 1938 not a private home.

[ADP]

Here is the list of "by declaration" marriage addresses from my family tree. Some have been used twice, and none are family residences that I know of.

51 Bath Street, Glasgow (Blythswood)
162 Bath Sreet, Glasgow (Blythswood)
90˝ Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow (Calton)
21 Hope Street, Glasgow (Blythswood)
19 Howard Street, Glasgow (Blythswood)
19 Howard Street, Glasgow (Blythswood)
36 Montrose Street, Glasgow (Blythswood)
435 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow (Anderston)
50 Wellington Street, Glasgow (Blythswood)
52 West Nile Street, Glasgow (Blythswood)

4 Bank Street, Edinburgh  (St Giles)
34 Chambers Street, Edinburgh (St Giles)
3 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh (St Giles)
9 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh (St Giles)
35 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh (St Giles)
53 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh (St Giles)
53 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh (St Giles)
1 India Buildings, Edinburgh (St Giles)
63 York Place, Edinburgh (St Andrew)

The 435 Sauchiehall Street address was also given by one of the contributors further up this thread of messages.

Apart from York Place, all of the Edinburgh addresses are within a short distance of the Sheriff Court. York Place is made up of substantial Georgian townhouses, and so it is quite feasible to have housed solicitors' offices. Can anyone comment on the Glasgow addresses in that regard?

ADP

[RJ_Paton]

The Glasgow addresses are fairly spread about and in a mix of areas

Bath Street addresses are quite far apart in the street with 51 being nearer the city centre its possible that these were offices/homes

21 Hope street is at the bottom end of the street and while it is now primarily a business address at that time it would have been a tenement building
(the same goes for 19 Howard Street)

The other possibility is that some of these could have been meeting houses for different groups (e.g. Salvation Army) 

[Okonski]

Absolutely - all the Glasgow addresses you gave are in commercial properties and housed (and some still do) legal practices, so I think it fair to assume that it was an expedience, for the warrant rather than any real domicile of the participants in marriage.

[LindsaySiam]

I think this is another one ..

7, Bridgegate, Glasgow (Blythswood)

My grandparents were married here by Declaration and Warrant of Sheriff's Substitute of Lanarkshire.

A quick search on 7, Bridgegate showed other people's trees where they had family that married there.

regards,

Lindsay