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Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« on: Saturday 18 September 10 20:50 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure if anyone can point me in the right direction with a query I've had outstanding for the last year and which I can't seem to solve.
My ancestor is James Fisher born in Scotland 1790 approx. He married a Marion and I have them living in Carlisle and appearing on census there. I searched Scotland's people for Marion's surname and found the only Marion (or Mary and other similar names) who married a James Fisher was a Marion Russell in Ayrshire.
However, on the birth certificate of James and Marion's son Joseph it states that Marion's maiden name is Anderson. I can find no record at all of a James Fisher marrying an Anderson. Could this have something to do with Marion keeping her mother's surname? is that possibly a common thing with Scottish tradition etc?
I have conducted lots and lots of searches on SP to try and piece together how Marion Anderson and Marion Russell could be the same person - there are certainly a lot of Andersons and Russells in Muirkirk (the area of my search) and I can find tenuous connections between the families but no definitive proof.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated  :)

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Re: Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 18 September 10 21:36 BST (UK) »
You have her surname on a birth certificate and personally I would accept that. Remember lots of marriages were never recorded on the OPR's which are records for The Established Church of Scotland.

Do you have confirmation on her death record?

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Re: Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 18 September 10 21:46 BST (UK) »
Oh! I didn't know that not all marriages were recorded (not sure what an OPR is sorry).
I don't have her death cert as there are too many Mary Fishers in Carlisle and I'm not ordering certificates for all of them to see which one it is  :-\

Thanks ever so much for taking the time to reply - much appreciated.

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Re: Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 18 September 10 21:57 BST (UK) »
OPR's are Old Parish Registers which belong to the Church of Scotland. Dissenting churches are not included but not all members of the CoS had baptisms/marriages recorded.

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« Reply #4 on: Saturday 18 September 10 21:59 BST (UK) »

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Re: Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 18 September 10 22:31 BST (UK) »
Thanks again - I have clearly been too eager in my searches on SP and totally missed that very important fact RE missing records!

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Re: Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 18 September 10 22:52 BST (UK) »
I think we have all been guilty of that  ;D
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