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Re: OPR Marriage help please
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 03 January 16 13:34 GMT (UK) »
A quick search of baptisms for Prestonpans brings up:

Agnes Anderson, born 16 Aug 1806; baptised 7 Sept 1806, parents: John Anderson and Alison Mackie

which would seem to suggest that the baptism of their daughter was the reason they were asked to produce the marriage certificate...

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McArthur, Milne, Mitchell, Black, Robertson, Morrison, Slessor, Lawrence - Aberdeenshire/Banffshire. Muir, Waddell, Fraser, Orr, Cowden - Lanarkshire/Renfrewshire/Dunbartonshire. Dalziel, Dalzell, Gourley, Cromie, Crombie, Bell - Co Down. Lewis, Corrigan, Morris, Cox, Hay - Monmouthshire/Pembrokeshire.  Baker, Ginger, Woodhurst, Swift, Jones - Kent/London.

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Re: OPR Marriage help please
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 03 January 16 14:55 GMT (UK) »
You guys are fantastic, thanks so much.

I saw Agnes' birth on family search but didn't make the connection with the date.  This would confim that the actual ceremony took place in Canongate, Edinburgh so at least one of them must have been living there at the time.  The name Agnes also gives me a possible link to Alison's mother that I've been looking at so small pieces of the puzzle are getting closer to fitting.

MACDONALD:- Glasgow and Ireland possibly Ballymena
McCORMACK - Glasgow and Ireland
DINNEEN -     Glasgow, London, Ramsgate, Suffolk, Co Kerry, Co Cork
NELSON and McLEAN - Ballymena Antrim

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Re: OPR Marriage help please
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 05 January 16 18:07 GMT (UK) »
If the bride and grrom lived in different parishes, the banns had to be called in both parishes. What the registers generally record is the fact that the banns were proclaimed, though in many cases the date of the marriage is also recorded.

In this case there are two records of proclamation of banns, and the name of the officiating minister is given, therefore it is not a case of an irregular marriage.

As Ruth says, I can only think that as they were married in Edinburgh, and wanted their child baptised in Prestonpans, they were required to produce evidence that they had actually been properly married, and that they had been married long enough for the first child not to have been conceived before the marriage.
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Re: OPR Marriage help please
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 05 January 16 22:20 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Forfarian, that's what I think too.  They have produced proof of marriage for Agnes' baptism.
MACDONALD:- Glasgow and Ireland possibly Ballymena
McCORMACK - Glasgow and Ireland
DINNEEN -     Glasgow, London, Ramsgate, Suffolk, Co Kerry, Co Cork
NELSON and McLEAN - Ballymena Antrim