Fearless Females – Bells Will be Ringing (Wedding Bells that is)

March 4^th – Do you have marriage records for your grandparents or great-grandparents?  Write a post about where they were married and when.  Any family stories about the wedding day?  Post a photo too if you have one.

I have been fortunate in that I have found marriage records for all up to my great-great grandparents on both sides of my family, with the exception of my paternal grandparents.  This I have to say is due to the excellent records kept by Scotland’s People.  Even with the Irish side I have been lucky.  Although I don’t have the actual certificates or registrations for the Irish records, I do have transcripts.  I think this is in part due to the fact that my family comes from Northern Ireland and a lot of the BMD records were either kept at the church level or sent to the records office in Belfast and not Dublin.



My Maternal Great Great Grandparents Robert Marshall - Anne Kynock Marriage (1841)

My Maternal Great Grandparents David Fenton Marshall - Rachel Wyse Hume Marriage (1870)

My Maternal Grandparents Robert Burn Marshall - Eliza Hamilton Burnett Marriage (1917)

My Paternal Great Great Grandparents William Farrell - Eliza Peters Marriage (1856)

My Paternal Great Grandparents William Forbes Farrell - Elizabeth Jane Maze Marriage (1894)

My Parents Robert Allan Farrell - Rhonal MacDonald Marshall Marriage (1953)



My Mother and Stepfather Douglas Sinclair Kay - Rhonal MacDonald Farrell Marriage (1963)

My Parents on their wedding day (April 15, 1953)

My mother and Stepfather on their wedding day (December 21, 1963)

The only story that I have been told about was during my mother and step-father's wedding.  I have previously told this story and it can be found here.

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