Elders Church. 20 Hopetoun Place, Glasgow

[RJ_Paton]

Associate Ante-Burgher Church in Havannah Street is mentioned here

http://www.glasgowhistory.co.uk/OrdsCalton.htm

Given the age of the Anti-Burgher movement this may have been the church building marked "in ruins" on the map in 1857

[nkbauer]

Thank you Falkyrn and Sancti for your help. UP makes sense as other family members were Presbyterian.
Kind regards, Nan

[RJ_Paton]

The Anti Burghers were Presbyterian as well (so is the Church of Scotland) - The history of the Church of Scotland since the reformation has been fractious and many groups split off from the Established Church at various periods. Some rejoined it at different periods some stayed away and united with other break away factions but the basic tenets of all of their forms of worship remained Presbyterian.

[nkbauer]

Thank you for the explanation Falkyrn. I did wonder about the Anti-Burghers. I don't know much about the Presbyterian church in Scotland. My grandmother, daughter of the above mentioned couple said she was Presbyterian when she came to Canada but attended a United church once she married here.
Nan

[almad]

Very interesting as I too have family married by "William Robertson Minister Elders Church" with a location given as 20 Hopetoun Place in 1870.

So do we think this was the Ministers house?

thanks

A

[Forfarian]

Church weddings were the exception rather than the rule until about the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. It was customary for a wedding ceremony to be held in the bride's parents' home. If, however, she had no parents or she was getting married a long way from their home, she might get married in her employer's house, or in the manse, which is the minister's house.

As there is evidence to confirm that Rev Robertson lived at this address, yes, your relative got married in the manse.

[almad]

Thank you.