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Can't find Marriage record

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Manderella

Manderella Report 14 Jun 2011 00:37

Please help!!
I have a wonderful Muir Family Wedding photograph but am unable to identify the Bride and Groom.

I believe it was taken in London in 1910 and the likely suspects for the Bride could be one of the following sisters...
Primrose Muir b1871
Jeanette Muir b 1876
Margaret Muir b 1878.
Their Parents were Andrew and Barbara Muir
The Groom is a Sailor!

Thank you

 Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 14 Jun 2011 01:00

oops sorry !

jax

jax Report 14 Jun 2011 01:08

Think that is a bit recent Lindsey?

jax

Manderella

Manderella Report 14 Jun 2011 01:09

Thanks, the wedding i'm looking for was in 1910 not 1999

jax

jax Report 14 Jun 2011 01:12

Marriages Sep 1910 (>99%)
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Brittain William Stepney 1c 570
Lyons Eliza Stepney 1c 570
Muir Margaret A Stepney 1c 570
Wright Charles J Stepney 1c 570

jax

jax Report 14 Jun 2011 01:15

Name: Margaret Ann Muir
Age: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1889
Spouse Name: William Brittain
Spouse Age: 22
Record Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 11 Sep 1910
Parish: St John, Limehouse Fields
County: London
Borough: Tower Hamlets

wrong parents so maybe not that was the only London marriage I could see
Father Name: John Oscar Muir
Spouse Father Name: Frederick Brittain

jax

jax Report 14 Jun 2011 01:23

Those Girls would have been quite old to be marrying in 1910

jax

Manderella

Manderella Report 14 Jun 2011 01:24

Thanks jax,
That can't be her unfortunately.
Elizabeth Lyon is a relation but not born until 1932.
She is the daughter of my great aunt.
:-)

jax

jax Report 14 Jun 2011 01:28

passenger transcript details
Name: Primrose MUIR
Date of departure: 14 December 1900
Port of departure: London
Passenger destination port: Brisbane, Australia
Passenger destination: Brisbane, Australia

Date of Birth: 1871 (calculated from age)
Age: 29
Marital status: Single
Sex: Female
Occupation: D S
Passenger recorded on: Page 10 of 12




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Ship:
Official Number:
Master's name:
Steamship Line:
Where bound:
Square feet:
Registered tonnage:
Passengers on voyage:
DUKE OF NORFOLK

H Lloyd Lenkins

Queensland, Australia
9014
2437
475

jax

jax Report 14 Jun 2011 01:31

that marriage is the other one on the page with Margaret so ignore it anyway

why do you think it was one of those does the bride look late 30s ?

Manderella

Manderella Report 14 Jun 2011 01:33

Yes I did think that myself.

Maybe it could be Doris Muir b1894???

Possibly the wedding was 1911 (I'm estimating the year as my Grandfather is in the photo born in 1907 and he looks about 3 yrs old. Also his cousin born in 1910 is a baby in the picture)

Was there a minimum age for marriage at this period of time???

 Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 14 Jun 2011 01:35

from ancestry tree

Name: Primrose Watson Muir
Birth: 24/4/1870 (24 Apr 1870) - Surrey, England
Death: 1954 - Auburn Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Parents: Andrew Muir, Barbara Black McAlpine
Spouse: John Wallace Walker

jax

jax Report 14 Jun 2011 01:40

that marriage is the other one on the page with Margaret so ignore it anyway

why do you think it was one of those does the bride look late 30s ?

Manderella

Manderella Report 14 Jun 2011 01:44

Thanks for the info on Primrose - very helpful.

It is difficult to tell the age of the adults but she is the spitting image of a man I suspect could be her Brother William Watson Muir b1969???

Cherilyn

Cherilyn Report 15 Jun 2011 04:20

Primrose married in NSW -

2620/1904 WALKER JOHN W MUIR PRIMROSE W SYDNEY


From NLA Trove newspaper

The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 11 January 1954
WALKER Primrose Watson - January 8, 1954, at Sefton, dearly loved mother of Jean, Barbara, Dorothy and Tirzah, aged 83 years.
At rest.

Funeral at Rookwood Crematorium.