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    joette
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    Please note that under Scottish Law at the time if they declared they were married in front of two witnessess then their marriage was legal.Even just agreeing that they were married to each other or living together as such-providing that neither was married to someone else was a legal marriage up until as late as 1929 I think.
    Also providing that they were free to marry at the time of conception then any children are legitimised by a subsuquent marriage.
    Jumping the table I have never heard of maybe "jumping the broom"?

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    JocelynR
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    Hi Bitza: to go back to your James McKie, Troqueer is in Dumfriesshire, not Kirkcudbrightshire - it might be worth you posting on that forum about him.

    The three counties Wigtownshire, Kirkcudbrightshire (aka the Stewartry) and Dumfriesshire in SW Scotland, were amalgamated into Dumfries and Galloway in 1973.

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    Bitza
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    Hi Jocelyn

    I have now received the Kirk records I was after from NAS, I am aware of the boundary changes in 1973, as the same thing happened in England. But thank you for your input.

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