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Offline StevieSteve

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Re: What are Marriage Bonds?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 09 January 18 22:54 GMT (UK) »
Where would I find the original of a marriage bond, issued for a marriage in Westminster in 1788? The Guildhall Library perhaps?

LMA and Ancestry for Bishop of London licences

Lambeth Palace Library and SOG for Archbishop of Canterbury licences
Middlesex: KING,  MUMFORD, COOK, ROUSE, GOODALL, BROWN
Oxford: MATTHEWS, MOSS
Kent: SPOONER, THOMAS, KILLICK, COLLINS
Cambs: PRIGG, LEACH
Hants: FOSTER
Montgomery: BREES
Surrey: REEVE

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Re: What are Marriage Bonds?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 11 January 18 19:30 GMT (UK) »
Thank you.

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Re: What are Marriage Bonds?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 11 January 18 20:37 GMT (UK) »
Explanation of marriage licences, bonds and allegations in a single page in these 2:
Marrying by Licence: marriage bonds and allegations (University of York)
https://www.york.ac.uk/media/borthwick/documents/5marriagebonds.pdf

Marriage Licences, Bonds and Allegations
www.dnr.me.uk/ncfhs2/NCFHS_forms/Marriage%20licences,bonds%20and%20allegations.pdf

These licences were not the same as special licences.
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Re: What are Marriage Bonds?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 12 January 18 09:02 GMT (UK) »
Thank you.