Deciphering some writing on a marriage cert

[maggie_4_7]

Could anyone decipher the names on this cert?

I think I know what they say but the writing on the first two are pretty bad and I am concerned that its not the people I think it is. if you click on it the image shows it in its own window a lot bigger.

Thank you.

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[ElizabethHerts]

Robert Young, Potter (deceased)
Elizabeth Young m.s. Lismard ?

Daniel McLaughlan, Miner (deceased)
Mary Ann McLaughlan m.s. Nielson

[maggie_4_7]

Thank you ElizabethHerts.

Its the maiden surname of Elizabeth that is now crucial.

I was hoping you'd say somthing else :)

I know what I want it to be.

[ElizabethHerts]

Maggie, I could well be wrong - upon further perusal, it could begin with "St"!

[Just Gillian]

I think Mary Ann McLaughlan's ms is Nicolson.

I'm still working on Elizabeth's - I'm not sure that first letter is an L, comparing it with the L of McLaughlan.

[Sue from Southend]

I'm not sure that the "L" in the middle is an L! I think it might be the downward stroke of the Y above.... but I'm still not sure what it says! Sisnant???

[WendyPusey]

Looks like Lismond to me.

[Phoenix]

Stenart? Stewart?

rt as in Robert.
e as in Potter.

[kiterunner]

I think it's Stewart.

[maggie_4_7]

Thanks everybody I was wanting the name Stewart.

I think its my G G Grandfather James Russel Stewart Young's second marriage cert in 1873 or even third I think there might be another one between 1865 -1873

I posted him on TO2GG yesterday and it made me go back and check for more marriages.

[Phoenix]

Good egg.

Is he just calling himself James Young, then?

[maggie_4_7]

Yeah the only place that his full name was ever used was on his baptism. I think probably being a poor Iron Stone Drawer/Miner it was a bit of a mouthful.