Non-conformist chapels

[ladynicotine]

Good morning

Does anyone know if there were any Nonconformist chapels (or any denomination) in the Crockenhill area of Kent in the 1850's/1860's?  I'm trying to trace a marriage, and although I don't believe that the people in question were Nonconformists, I understand that the timescale was sometimes quicker for such marriages as they didn't necessarily require the same residency periods as C of E.

Many thanks

Lady Nicotine

[shirl100]

Here is a baptist Union Church in Crockenhill http://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/crkn_c02.htm

Shirl

[lizdb]

The marriage should be in the GRO index, wherever it took place. Then the cert will confirm the Church/Registry office etc where the marriage took place.

[ladynicotine]

Thanks for this Shirl - somewhere for me to start.

I know that the marriage should be listed in the GRO, but as yet I've not found anything.  Which could mean that they never married & she just started using his name, or could mean that either a name was recorded (or given) incorrectly. 

He came from what I've seen described as "a notorious criminal family" (they were also gypsies) & his father gave a different first name at his marriage so there is family precedent.  I was hoping that if I could look at some of the registers from different churches & chapels, something might leap out at me.

Back to the coal face....