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Re: Seeking more information about Richard Tanner in Bath.
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 06 November 14 12:34 GMT (UK) »
Back after a short break! ;D

Thank you both again for the extra details. I was a little confused with the Register Office wedding. ??? :-\ Must have been one of the first in Bath.
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Re: Seeking more information about Richard Tanner in Bath.
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 06 November 14 12:49 GMT (UK) »
Could have been one of the first in the country
That might make another thread - Who's got the earliest register office wedding?
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Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
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Re: Seeking more information about Richard Tanner in Bath.
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 06 November 14 14:25 GMT (UK) »
Almost certainly they were not married at the Registry Office but at a non-conformist church. That was allowed from mid-1837 but before 1898 in most cases the non-con minister could not be a registrar. A registrar from the Registry Office would attend and officially register the marriage. Such weddings were recorded in a register kept at the Office and shown as such on BathBMD.

I expect the first such wedding was on the day the new law came into effect.

David
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