Place of marriage - a query,.....

[LesleyB]

Hi David

I'm still looking forward to meeting the English expert, who in his short boxout on marriages up here, referred to the fact that most Scottish marriages involved a "hamfest". I think I know what he meant, but they don't

That rings a bell, 'cos I remember thinking, "hmm, that's interesting, I just haven't ever come across that" and thinking it might just be me not knowing.
... the publication in question doesn't happen to contain the letters FYT (rearrange these letters) in its title does it? I will understand it you can't for er, legal reasons, reply to this!!!

Will check out Abe books for the book you mention. Its amazing what you can pick up there. I recently easily found (I had several to choose from) a copy of "This Small World of Mine" by Sir Hector Livingstone Duff (a second cousin many times removed who I'd only just found out about) It was a first edition from 1936, in OK condition & only cost a tenner - including the postage. Impressive. (Its quite an amusing book too - not as dull as I'd feared.)

Best wishes
Lesley

[DavidWW]

That's the one, with the "Germanic" connection , - it was obviously a misread or bad typo for handfasting, but, in any case, to give it the prominence that it was given in the few words available was wrong anyway.

Curiously enough, the editor since then has used specialists for such boxouts

And BTW there is such a thing as a hamfest, - a bit like a TS party but involving amateur radio enthusiasts aka "hams"

Abe and similar are pure deid brilliant. Up to the time that they were established I'd been looking for copies of several books for up to 15 years, paying a fair bit of money over that period for book searches to individual companies, £3 or £5 a time with no success,and then, within the space of a few weeks had all these and a few others at perfectly reasonable cost......

David

[JayPee]

On the general subject, does anyone out there have a record of a situation where there was an objection following the proclamation of the banns?

And beyond that does anyone out there have a record of that same situation, but where the couple then went to the Sheriff Court to challenge and disprove the basis of the objection, which could, in the ultimate, lead to a Sheriff Officer accompanying the couple to the manse, and requiring the minster to marry the couple?

David

Just curious: Is this the kind of info one might find in the OPRs? (I haven't located OPRs for those I'm hunting... yet... so I'm a bit ignorant about them.) Or are there other sources to search?
- JayPee

[Moments later...] I just noticed your post under "OPRs", so I guess that I guessed correctly

[DavidWW]

Just curious: Is this the kind of info one might find in the OPRs? (I haven't located OPRs for those I'm hunting... yet... so I'm a bit ignorant about them.) Or are there other sources to search?
- JayPee .....snipped.......

There might or might not be a mention in the OPR, but there would be more likely to be a mention in the kirk session minutes, but don't get your hopes up, as it's not uncommon to find session minutes which are no more than "This day the Seƒsion met."

Local newspapers would be the other obvious place to look, and there was a press release recently about the Newsplan Project that has resulted in the National Library of Scotland now having the best collection in the world (as you'd think should be the case anyway, but wasn't) - resulting in the addition of 9,846 reels of microfilm relating to 606 titles = 4m pages. They have sent copies of appropriate microfilms to local libraries along with a microfilm reader where necessary.

Of course, depending on the date there might not yet have been a newspaper.......

David