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Irene
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MARRIAGE LICENCES
« on: Tuesday 18 January 05 20:04 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know what happened to the "licences" when people were married by licence rather than by banns.

As I believe this was to hurry a marriage up and not go through the public display of banns I imagine they should then contain relevant genealogical data such as ages etc.

Cheers, Irene Wink Wink
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Re: MARRIAGE LICENCES
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 January 05 16:20 GMT (UK) »
The licences themselves are very rarely found. Most licences have disappeared because there was no need for the clergyman or the married couple to keep the licence once the marriage had been solemnized.

Other papers relating to the issue of marriage licences are kept in the archives of the different dioceses. These include
  • Affidavits or allegations.
    To obtain a licence, the bridegroom would normally appear before a surrogate (a person authorised to act for the bishop's court in the granting of marriage licences) and swear on oath that he knew of no impediment to the marriage. The oath is recorded in a document known as an affidavit or an allegation.
  • Marriage Bonds
    Until 1823, the bridegroom and a friend would also enter into a bond, a document obliging them to pay a sum of money. These bonds are known as marriage bonds. If an impediment to the marriage should come to light, or if the conditions of the licence should be breached, then the bridegroom and his friend would forfeit the considerable sum of money noted in the bond. Under normal circum-stances the sum would not be paid.

Sometimes you will find other documents filed with the bonds and affidavits such as certificates of baptism, letters of consent, or orders to issue a licence.

An example of a Marriage bond issued for Nathaniel Betton of Shrewsbury by the Bishop of St Asaph can be seen on this web page
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~betton/Betton/NBB.htm

Most of the documents relating to the issue of marriage licences do not contain much genealogical information
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