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Re: Gordon Blair - Mystery? or Not!
« Reply #513 on: Saturday 22 May 21 10:22 BST (UK) »
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Re: Gordon Blair - Mystery? or Not!
« Reply #514 on: Saturday 22 May 21 10:27 BST (UK) »
"Writers to the Signet," fancy Edinburgh lawyers! have a website & presumably a members list.
The Register of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet was published in book form in 1983. I have a copy. No Gordon Blair, James Blair or James Gordon Blair is listed in it.
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Re: Gordon Blair - Mystery? or Not!
« Reply #515 on: Saturday 22 May 21 10:39 BST (UK) »
I do not see Georgina's maiden name ( that is to say "family name" of BLAIR) on the death index record.
I see her name as the mother --Georgina Lorimer-- (2 given names) BAMBER (family name).
That is because it's an English death certificate. English death certificates don't record the maiden surname of a married woman. Nor do they list even the father of the deceased person, let alone the mother.
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Re: Gordon Blair - Mystery? or Not!
« Reply #516 on: Saturday 22 May 21 10:45 BST (UK) »
In the BLAIR to BAMBER marriage both parties were about 17 years old.
In Australia someone would need to give permission for such young people to marry and this would be recorded on the certificate.
Was this not an expectation in the Scotland of the time?
No. Parental consent was not required - this is the reason why Gretna Green became famous as a place to elope to, because it was the first place an eloping couple arrived at after crossing the Border, and they could get married there without it.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.