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Marriage Query.
« on: Saturday 25 January 14 11:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi All.
Can anyone tell me if you had to have been Baptised or Christened to get married in a church  in England about 1839 ?.
Regards Dave.

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Re: Marriage Query.
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 25 January 14 11:36 GMT (UK) »
No you did not. However The Book of Common Prayer, has this comment: "It is convenient that the new-married persons should receive the holy Communion at the time of their Marriage, or at the first opportunity after their Marriage." You had to be baptised to receive Communion, so sometimes people got baptised before their wedding.

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Re: Marriage Query.
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 25 January 14 12:24 GMT (UK) »
Hi stanmapstone.
Thanks for your reply.
The reason I asked was because my GG/Grandfather was born in 1816/1817 in Shropshire and I cannot find a Baptism for him, and he married in 1839 at the Collegiate Church Wolverhampton.
Regards Dave.

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Re: Marriage Query.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 27 January 14 10:08 GMT (UK) »
Put his details up and we will see what we can find

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