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Hi thanks you all for your responses.
Much appreciated
Regards
Martyn

The newspaper is viewable here on Genes and on FMP


Alnwick Mercury December 01, 1854
MARRIAGES

At Lamberton,lately 11th ult
Mr Robert Richardson of Little Tosson to Miss Mary Ann Taylor,of Ryehill ,near Rothbury.

Found this through google
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/Mordington/

Lamberton Toll Marriages 1804-1816 & 1849-1855 on microfiche by Original Indexes.

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There are no matches in 1853/4 in Berwickshire (the county where Lamberton Toll was) for a couple of that name from the Scotlands People website

From rootsweb

Although much has been written about the Irregular Border Marriages at Gretna Green, there were also many such marriages in the Eastern Borders, mainly at Lamberton Toll but also at Paxton Toll, Chain Bridge, Mordington and Coldstream during the 1800s. Although much has been written of southerners rushing to the border to be married chased by Father with a shot-gun, the reality is that many of these marriages were of Presbyterians and other non-conformists who would rather be married in Scotland than set foot in a Church of England - the only legal place to be married in England.

Furthermore, there were many couples who met at the Hirings Fair at Berwick, and rushed to Lamberton for a quick marriage the next day to avoid never seeing each other again. (agricultural labourers were often hired for one years work only, and had to go to the Hirings each year in the hope that someone would hire them for the next year).

From 1844 to 1847, almost 1500 irregular marriages took place in the Eastern Borders. An act of 1857 made such marriages illegal, but nevertheless they carried on for some years thereafter. My own great grandparents, William Cairns and Mary Jane Clark were married there (according to family recollections) in the 1860s, however I have never been able to prove this.

Very few Lamberton Marriage Certificates now exist, and records of such marriages apart from a block in the 1840s which are indexed at Berwick Record Office are hard to find. Therefore attempting to find documentary details of your ancestors who were married at one of the Border Tolls is very difficult.
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Looks like Berwick Records office may be a place to start

Lamberton Toll was just over the border in Scotland and was a venue for marriages.

The marriage, if it was recorded, will be on scotlandspeople.

This site has some info:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~agene/lamberton.html

I recently saw in a copy of the Alnwick Mercury dated December 1854, that "lately" Robert Richardson had married Mary Ann Taylor at Lamberton Toll.

If someone has access to these records and could look up this marriage I would dearly like to know the information recorded regarding this couple and perhaps get a copy of same.

Kind Regards
Martyn