MENZIES, Mary Clark ^{1 2 3}

   Other names for Mary were BLACK, Mary ² and BLACK, Mary Clark.³

  General Notes:

Alexander Menzies was the informant of his daughter's birth.

Mary was the mother in law of Peter Quigley. She was living at 6 Castle Drive Holytown at the time of her daughter Sarah's wedding in 1950. ⁴

Mary married Jeremiah BLACK on 1 October 1909 in The Manse, Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland.¹ (Jeremiah BLACK was born about 1880 and died after 4 January 1950 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

John Dalziel Dykes, Minister of Holytown, married the couple after publication of banns, according to the forms of the Church of Scotland.The witnesses were Wm Watson and Helen Lenman (?).

Jeremiah Black, a coalminer, single, aged 23 years, lived at 18 Bairds Square Holytown.

Mary Clark Menzies was 20 years old and lived at the same address. She was single.

The marriage was registered on 4 October 1909 at Holytown.

Note: The only Jeremiah Black found in the Lanarkshire area was born in 1883 to Peter Black and Elizabeth Ann Smith, married 1879 in Dalziel parish or district. This person also appears in the 1901 census. If this Jeremiah's parents' details are correct he may have moved to Scotland from elsewhere.
The Merchant Navy Seamen's Records list a Jeremiah Black born in County Antrim,Ireland about 1877. The Irish Civil Register records a birth of two children naed Jeremiah Black in Ballymena, one in 1884 and one 1886.
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