BUYING A CERT.

[Red Hatter]

HI EVERYONE, Nice cool day here W.A I won't to buy the birth cert .of Alexander Elliot brn 1809 Hobkirk Rox. Scotl.. Thats my inform. on Alexander plus married to Mary Tait brn `1812 Cavers, Rox. birth place Lurgies Cleuch. They married c1833. I've looked all over the place with no luck also where would I look th get the inform. for the form such as Vol. no. and Page no. cheers, Trish

[AndrewP]

Hi Trish,

The page from the Old Parochial Register (OPR) can be downloaded from ScotlandsPeople on a pay per view basis - you need to register with ScotlandsPeople first (that part is free of charge). There is a link at the top of this page to ScotlandsPeople.

I took a peek at the OPR page, it has the baptsim of Alexander and some of his siblings (you need to buy access to the page before the one with Alexander to see the records of the oldest ones). When registering with ScotlandsPeople, you can select "Direct Download" and it makes it easy for you to save a copy of this image to your computer.

I see the 1833 marriage on the online IGI. As it is extracted from the registers, it should be available on ScotlandsPeople, but there is no sign of it there (an error on their part?)

All the best,

AndrewP

[Anne H]

Hi Trish,

You will find the OPR birth on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ which you can download and print. You'll need to register (free) then for the small fee of 6 GBP you'll get 30 credits...you'll use 6 credits to get this record (1 to view the list of up to 25 births on a page and 5 credits to view and download the actual image).

Regards,
Anne H

[Anne H]

You beat me to it, Andrew...I'm getting slower at typing.

Regards,
Anne H