Scotland, Newspaper Marriage & Anniversary Notices

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Search for your Scottish ancestors’ marriage and anniversary notice in these newspaper reports. Discover more about your relative’s life, while searching these publications you may be able to find out the date of their marriage and the name of their spouse.

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What can these records tell me?

Each record includes a transcript and the original newspaper announcement. The amount of information listed varies, but the records usually include a combination of the following information about your ancestor:

  • Name
  • Age
  • Birth year
  • Marriage date
  • Spouse’s name
  • Spouse’s age
  • Parents names
  • Spouse’s parents’ names
  • Periodical
  • Publication date
  • Page number
  • County

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Explore this collection of newspaper marriage and anniversary notices to unearth interesting or undiscovered stories about your ancestors’. Discover how the events were originally reported and reveal fascinating details about the world in which your ancestors lived.

Marriage and anniversary notices were paid announcements usually written by a family member and sent to the newspaper. It would have been a cost to the family to have a notice printed in a newspaper.

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Newspapers included in this collection are the following:

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen Press and Journal

Ayr Advertiser or West County Journal

Courier & Advertiser

Dumfries and Galloway Standard

Dundee Advertiser

Dundee Courier and Daily Argus

Dundee Perth and Cupar Advertiser

Edinburgh Evening News

The Shetland News

The Shetland Times