Where in Scotland is 'Dumfrost'?

[Hunter]

Thanks Jap for checking with the original, I have a transcription.  I suspect that the age of Margaret is an error, (could it possibly read as 29 instead of 27).  Her marriage cert shows her as 18, the 1841 shows her as 20 yrs so she should be 29 or 30 by the time of the 1851. 

Anyway I don't think there's anything wrong with a woman knocking a few years off her age!

I will follow the advise of rootschatters and take a look at Scotlands People - I don't hold out much hope though as she was born before registration.

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far...

regards
Val

[JAP]

Hello Val,

No, the age is very clearly entered as 27.

A free search (you do need to register but that is free) on ScotlandsPeople found no births/baptisms of a Marg*t DAVISON, father W*m, 1820-1825 in Scotland; it found 9 Marg*t DAVIDSONs with father W*m.

Of course, it is entirely possible that there is no record to be found.  Margaret may not have been baptized at all (this was quite common - and Statutory Registration did not begin in Scotland until 1855); she may have been baptized in a church the records of which have not survived or have not been indexed; etc, etc.  It is also possible (noting that her father was a hawker) that he travelled around and that she might even have been born over the border in Scotland but baptized later in England.

What denomination was Margaret's marriage ceremony?

Sorry not to be more optimistic.

JAP 

[Hunter]

Hi Jap

They were married in St Margaret's Parish Church in the City of York.

Thanks for your help
Val

[JAP]

Hi again Val,

I asked because almost all of the pre-1855 Scottish records in the IGI and on ScotlandsPeople come from the (Presbyterian) established Church of Scotland.

The fact that Margaret was married in the Church of England may, of course,  mean nothing about the religion of her parents.  But if they were CofE, they'd probably be Episcopalians in Scotland - and a check of Hugh Wallis's site shows that there are no batches in Dumfries-shire from Episcopalian churches.

JAP