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Offline Brendath

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Re: Jane Shell
« Reply #9 on: Monday 11 July 11 19:02 BST (UK) »
I have the birth certificate of Jane's son William b 1848 which gives her name as Shell. On the 1841 cesus she is given as living and working at the at the Cross Gate for John Moffat.

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Re: Jane Shell
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 16 August 11 06:36 BST (UK) »
Paxton Toll 11 August 1844 William Trotter of Spittle to Jane Shell of Holy Island. Wit. Thomas Shell, Mary Ann Mosman.
Source: Vol I Irregular Border Marriages, NDFHS available from www.ndfhs.org.uk/Sales/

See www.gla.ac.uk/departments/scottishwayofbirthanddeath/marriage/ for more info about irregular marriages.



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Re: Jane Shell
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 16 August 11 14:28 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much for finding this marriage. I had not heard of  irregular marriages but I did know that people from the Northumberland borders often married in Scotland. Is any sort of Marriage certificate avalible?

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Re: Jane Shell
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 17 August 11 07:57 BST (UK) »
I am afraid not.
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