Excerpt from The Register of Marriages for the Parish of Edinburgh, 1595-1700

This Index to the Register of Marriages for the Parish of Edinburgh has been printed by the kind permission of Sir Stair Agnew, registrar-general, and Keeper of the Records of Scotland. The Register, which is preserved in the General Register House, Edinburgh, commences only in 1595, the first entry being on 25th March (then New Year's Day) of that year, and the Index embraces all the entries contained in it, down to and inclusive of the year 1700. The Parish of Edinburgh consisted only of the intra-mural city, the districts outside the walls, such as the West Port and Potterrow, being in the Parish of St. Cuthberts, which adjoined the city on the south, west, and north sides, while on the east was the separate parish of the Canongate. For the period dealt with the Register is contained in three volumes - I. 1595 - 1649 5 II. 1649 - 1694 and III. 1696-1705, and in the two first volumes the entries are of the simplest description - merely the names of the parties married, and, generally, the occupation of the husband, with the date of marriage. In the third volume of the Register, beginning in 1696, the dates of both pro clamation and marriage are given, but in a number of instances the latter date is omitted. In these cases pro before the date indicates that the date given is that of proclamation. After 1670 the name of the officiating minister is sometimes added, and later, after 1696, some information is furnished about the wife's parentage, and sometimes also the husband's. In the Index both husband and wife' are separately entered in their alphabetical order, and as each name thus appears twice, the old spelling has been retained Where it occurs in the second place; 'only under the husband's name, however, is the full information contained in the Register given, and therefore reference should be made for this to the entry under the husband's name.

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