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Surname
TAYLOR
Forename
Robert
Day
25
Month
02
Year
1925
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Prestonlinks
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Edinburgh Collieries Ltd
Location
Prestonpans
County
Haddingtonshire
Details of Event
25 February 1925: Court of Session – Outer House (Before Lord Ashmore) – A Scots Marriage – Decree was granted declaring that Rosina Stocks or M’Lauchlan or Taylor, 19 High Street, Musselburgh, was married to Robert Taylor, who was killed in a pit accident in February of this year. The pursuer’s evidence showed that the parties took up house together in January 1915. Taylor gave her a ring, and they took one another as husband and wife. The neighbours regarded them as married people and she was known as Mrs Taylor. Before the birth of a child in June 1916 she spoke to him about getting married. He said they did not need a minister to marry them, as they were married according to Scots law. Counsel for the Pursuer - Mr J. Cameron. Agents – Gray, Muirhead, & Carmichael, S.S.C. [Scotsman 26 November 1925]