Our Family
Scottish Marriages
The Beginning
Scottish Marriages
This is reproduced here for educational purposes only and respect the Author.
Not all marriages in Scotland were recorded. Some were performed in the home and not entered in parish registers;some were 'handfast' marriages ( like defacto today) where they could publicy declare they were a couple and after a year and a day it was considered legal (but not by the churches!). Another interesting fact re handfasting - if after the year and a day the couple split up the one wanting the split had to take any children born to the partnership!!!
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For all good fishermen sail away
And scour the seas for many a day
And now grown rich with cargo stored
They steer their course, for Scotland's shore.
For men of the ocean
Their lives set to motion
While wives wait on shore
For their good men, while breakers roar.
The sea is our way of life
For me, the wee ones & wife
But, it can also bring sorrow
On the the ocean, with the dawn of the morrow.
We are the fishermen of the sea
All of my mates, the captain, and me
We work where the fish are & birds soar
We've done it for years, on Scotland's Shore. By Linda Taylor
This is the end of one way of life to another way.
Taylor ~ Spelling Taylor, Taylow, Taylur, Tailler, Taillefer, Tellier
First found in Selkirk in 1292, Brice le Taillor was a Scottish Commander who was taken prisoner by the English in Dunbar Castle in 1296.
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