Help with marriage register please!

[Spinelli]

Hi all, I do think Heille looks like the place name and not a surname. I've attached a larger portion of the marriage register.

Margaret died after 1855 and as such has more information on her death certificate, which states her parents as James McLean and Grace McLean (nee. McLean).

[MonicaL]

I think there was an error in the way that the marriage has been entered. As illustrated by the rest of the entries on the page of register, witnesses' names were not included here.

Normally when witnesses are listed, the entry starts with the word (witnesses) abreviated or in full and then the name of each witness and where they came from.

The fact that Margaret's maiden name has been left off is also unusual given how important women's maiden names are in Scotland. It is almost like the clerk started to write the entry in the register and then got called away....never to return to it in this case 

Monica

[MonicaL]

Margaret died after 1855 and as such has more information on her death certificate, which states her parents as James McLean and Grace McLean (nee. McLean).

Spinelli, take some care on mother Grace's maiden name. Best to be open minded on this for now. It may be that it was not known to the informant at the time of Margaret's death in 1855. A pain when it happens, but errors do creep into registrations.

What was her birth place on the 1851 census? Added - just found it I think, Lochbroom, R&C?

Monica

[arthurk]

I think there was an error in the way that the marriage has been entered. As illustrated by the rest of the entries on the page of register, witnesses' names were not included here.

Normally when witnesses are listed, the entry starts with the word (witnesses) abreviated or in full and then the name of each witness and where they came from.....

I see what you mean - and something else has now occurred to me. Compared to the other entries, this one looks rather faint. Could it be that the clerk started to write the entry, realised it was a mistake, and then erased it as best he could?

One possible reason that occurred to me was that he was recording a baptism, and realised he'd started to enter it in the wrong book. I was going to suggest looking to see if there might be a baptism that would fit with this explanation, and then noticed that Debra had already suggested one:

The surname is looks like MACKAE not MACRAE.  There are are other events in Bracadale recorded as MACKAY so probably unlikely that their surname would be spelt differently.    Perhaps this one is also MACRAE.....

Possibly a son baptised also in 1818.

MACKAE, ANGUS
   
ALEXANDER MAC KAE MARGT. MAC NIEL FR 25 (FR25)
   
17/09/1818
   
109  10/17
   
Bracadale

Debra