Scottish Certificates

[craft1948]

I want a copy of a Marriage Certificate for a wedding which took place in The Shetlands........does anyone know if there is there an online site to order one.

[dothawkes31]

http://www.bmd-certif...registry/lerwick.html

[craft1948]

christ dot they're £25.00 each!!

[dothawkes31]

They used to be about that in England when i first started as there were no computers. It's possible that that includes a search of the 20 odd districts as of course people cold marry anywhere. If you can narrow it down and have an exact entry from the index there may be a cheaper choice, can't quite work out if that is our GRO equivalent or a go-between

[dothawkes31]

But of course you pretty much get the birth details of the bride and groom including their parents names and so it is as cheap as 3 English certs in that respect

[craft1948]

I've got the date and the place but that's it.
I want a copy of my grandad's marriage certificate as at some point he changed his surname (no idea why) so I wanted to see what name he married under.

[dundurn]

caft use the Scotlandspeople website www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk . You'll need to buy some credits £6 minimum to locate the record you're interested in. Then yu can order an extract for £10. If a marriage took place less than 75 yers ago this is the only route as it's considered "modern" nd unavailable as an online image.

[craft1948]

They got married in 1917 dundurn....

[dundurn]

Firstly let me apologise for the spelling in my last post - I have a problem with my laptop - it may be dying - if I type at any speed at all it drops characters all over the place!

If my reading of the site is correct then since the wedding took place more than 75 year ago you should be able to use the scotlandspeople website to get an image of your required certifcate for £6. Register, buy your 30 units, use 1 on the search for the certificate and then another 5 or so (from memory) on obtaining the viewable copy which you can the print off. With any luck you'll still have another 20 odd units left to do some more searching!! You do need a suitable viewer program on your computer but I think it prompts you to download this if you haven't already got one. It's so long since I first used the site, I can't remember, but I know I didn't have to pay for it.

[craft1948]

Thanks dundurn I did as you said and got the info for 12 credits!!
I did have to download the viewer but as you say it cost nothing. I was impressed that the my grandad's birth certificate also gave his parents marriage date.........unfortunately this was in Ireland.

[dundurn]

We seek to serve! Wedding dates are one of the benefits of the Scottish system - and as you've found out it also records the "where" as well - you might almost think they had genealogists in mind when they set it up! And as to cost - any system that is going to be used by Scots needs to be cheap - jings ma bob! we canna be daein' wi a' they £25 a throw certificates like Dot! though she's usually spot on when it comes to advice!!

[dothawkes31]

Hi excellent craft, glad you found your cert, Scottish certs are brilliant and the info overlaps really well, pity they didn't use that system here, I know Scottishpeople has been mentioned alot in this topic and I was thinking you had not been able to spot it on there. What was the mystery about the change of name for your grandad?

[craft1948]

My grandad was called Thomas Russell but we were told that was not the name he was born with, my sister remembers he'd changed it from Vint. I didn't know when he'd changed it so was unsure what name would be on the certificate.
He was quite naughty as on his marriage he gave his name as Russell and his father as William Russell, but his father was William Vint.

[dothawkes31]

Did maybe his whole family changed their name, or was Russell his mothers maiden name maybe?

[dothawkes31]

I'm shattered actually, just spent 3 hours doing that research on the Elizabeth Caswell thread so need a break, did you see Who Do You Think You Are USA last night? What a contrived affair that was lol

[craft1948]

I've just had an email from a guy in NZ whose ancestors were an Edward Russell who married a Margaret Vint. He seems to think that Margaret was my great-great-grandfathers sister. This seems to tie in as my great-great-great-grandparents died at the address this Edward and Margaret lived at in Belfast.

[craft1948]

I thought it was rubbish dot. The whole family didn't change their name as I have William's death as Vint. However Thomas' mother was Annie Russell McMillan.

[dothawkes31]

I was looking last night at my great great grandad's marriage certificate, not really looked at it closely for years, noticed last night the male witness at his wedding was the father of one of his future daughter-in-laws, never noticed that before!

[craft1948]

I found that the other night from the Lawlers dot. When Annie Lawler married one of the witnesses was called Plows......later one of Annie's daughters married a Plows.

[dothawkes31]

I got sick of the same reaction from SJP at every piece of info, and how convenient that those letters survived , it;s as though they had fitted her in somewhere down the tree rather than the research been done backwards. And the Salem witch trials? How predictable was that??? Notice they didn't really prove the connection,

[dothawkes31]

I have a plows in my family, David Plows,