William DONALDSON

1781 -

• Name	William DONALDSON
  Birth	23 Apr 1781
  Christening	26 Apr 1781	Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland
  	Register states that he was named after William DONALDSON, grandfather.
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I17719	Gadd
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2008

  
  

  Father	Alexander DONALDSON,   b. Abt 1757, Forgan, Fife d. 13 Dec 1843, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Catherine COWPER
  Marriage	09 May 1778	Edinburgh, Scotland
  	Dundee parish register records on this date that they were "Clandestinately [sic] married at Edinburgh, May" Scottish law did not require parental consent to marriage, and Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 applied only to England and Wales, not to Scotland, so during the eighteenth century an ever increasing number of couples married outside of their parish church, and without having the banns called. [www.encyclopedia.com]
  		Record of the Clandestine Marriage of Alexander DONALDSON and Catherine COWPER
  Family ID	F6625	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart