We have added two more collections to our online indexes: marriages/banns and deaths/burials.
As with our online birth/baptism search which we announced earlier this week you can now search all the entries in our pre-existing indexes in book form plus some new ones not available before. All of these are indexes of pre-1855 records that for some reason do not appear in the Church of Scotland Old Parish Records, or OPRs. This means when you search scotlandspeople.go.uk these records do not show up.
How does it work?
Deaths/Burials:
You can search by Forename, Surname, Year of Death, County of Death, Parish of Death, or a combination of the above. As with searching the census, less is often more. Perhaps the person didn’t die when you expect or not in the location you expect. Married or widowed females are often recorded only under their maiden surname and first names and surnames appear under an amazing variety of spellings.
Here’s how the search page looks:
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Marriages:
When you search for a marriage you can search by either the Groom’s Name, the Bride’s Name or both. The results show:
“Groom’s Name”, “Bride’s Name”, “Year” and “Register”.
Remember that the register and place of residence are not necessarily the same thing. With this in mind, we have also indexed by parish of marriage (or most likely parish of marriage), which at times may be different from the parish name on the register. If people attended a non-Church of Scotland Church they may have travelled across parish boundaries to be married by the minister of their choice. Also if the couple were from different parishes the banns would have been read out in both. Not all registers specify where the marriage took place, in these cases we have indexed the parish as the parish the register was kept in.
The full entries of the birth, marriage or death costs just £1.50 and you can pay through PayPal.
Remember you can also search our other indexes online, here’s a list of all our indexes:
