Wright of Fitzwalters Essex 1700s and 1800s

[olleym]

http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/kelvedonhatch/houses.html

This was the Wright family home
The adjacent church St Nicholas holds hundreds of Wright family records see https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/58d5768b791e3bcbe4a6f50e

See quote below, this may explain why "minor" family members are recorded in the parish church

"The Hardwicke Act of 1753 which came into force in 1754 reformed the marriage system and closed the loophole that allowed legally binding 'irregular' or 'clandestine' marriages to take place. The legislation stipulated that marriage must take place in a licensed Anglican parish church before an Anglican minister and in the bride or bridegroom's own parish in the presence of two witnesses and only after the publication of banns. The details were to be recorded in a separate book with a numbered space for each entry, to prevent fraud. Jews and Quakers were exempt from the new law. After the introduction of the Act, Catholic marriages are found in parish registers and before the act within the records of various unauthorised places of marriage. Wealthier Catholics also had the option of marrying by licence thus avoiding the necessity of having banns called and was popular before and after the marriage reforms of 1754."


Mark

[hurworth]

Thank you Mark.  I should use FreeReg more often.

I've just found two baptisms at St Mary Moorfields in the 1770s of two of my aunts (many gt) on FreeReg and am just about to e-mail two of her descendants.  I thought they would have been baptised in Essex.   One aunt lived until 1860 and must have seen so many changes in her lifetime, and now we have a precise date of birth. 

Hopefully City of London Catholic records will be added to FindMyPast soon.

Here is a Wright baptism at St Mary Moorfields
https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5818b4d3e93790ec8b041b6d?search_id=58d586db791e3bcbe4a6f766&ucf=false

[olleym]

It's always worth returning to freereg as it is still a work in progress, new stuff be added every day.