Help reading a marriage OPR?

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:56 pm

Hopefully, the file I just uploaded is the marriage OPR for Alexander Mitchel and Christian Clarihue. Can anyone make out the place where they were married?

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1475

Bunn?? Burn?? Bu??

Carol

Gallery url added by Marilyn

Post by **AndrewP** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:03 pm

Hi Carol,

I think it says Burnside. Tall s and curly d.

--> OS map showing Burnside, Keig <--

All the best,

AndrewP

ROY M · Post by **ROY M** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:06 pm

Hi Carol
I'd go for Burnside.
Look at the way d and s are written in other entries

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:10 pm

Thanks to both of you. I looked in my Keig MI booklet and found a William Mitchell of Burnside who died in 1821. I keep forgetting that in the old style of writing an -s- looks a lot like a modern -f-!

This find is very interesting. I had note from a TS contributor about a Christian Cleriehugh who died in around 1800 and was buried in St. Peter's. Her husband was Alexander Mitchell. I found them on the IGI and then on SP. What's so intriguing is that the -hugh ending for Clerihew is the same as Ernest Cleryhugh of Oyne Chris Paton found for me in the Kirk Session records when my sister and I hired him to do a search.

Oyne isn't very far from Keig where Alexander and Christian were married and Ernest and Christian were contemporaries so they could easily be brother and sister. If Ernest's illegitimate child with Jean Davidson born in 1778 was in fact my 3x great grandfather, then I may have found some more family! If not, then at least I've placed them on my chart!

This is of course what keeps me and a lot of you hunting!

Carol