1840s registry office wedding - Unusual or not?

[pinefamily]

Depending on how remote the village was, or whether there was a resident minister, rather than one who came periodically. In this sort of scenario, baptisms sometimes were missed, or done in blocks. That's how whole families were sometimes baptised at the same time.
Have you looked further in the register to see if there was indeed a later baptism?

[GeneCat]

That I didn't know. Thanks for the info Pine.

[jaybelnz]

Most of my ancestors, from my grandparents back, both sides,  were married in their parents home, or later at the Manse.  But always by a Minister.  This was in Scotland and mostly Church of Scotland, or Baptist.

[stanmapstone]

Were they married by Superintendent Registrar’s Licence? A Superintendent Registrar was empowered to issue a Superintendent Registrar’s Licence, authorizing an immediate marriage,  only seven days after the couple’s details had been entered in the Marriage Notice Book. The subsequent ceremony could take place in any licensed building apart from an Anglican Church or Chapel, usualy the Register Office.

Stan

[pinefamily]

Unbelievably, just today I found the ancestor I was looking for on ancestry, along with two sisters all baptised on the same day, with their births all listed in the margin.

[jaybelnz]

That's great!  Good find indeed!  Well done!

Jeanne

[stanmapstone]

A Superintendent Registrar was empowered to issue a Superintendent Registrar’s Licence, authorizing an immediate marriage,  only seven days after the couple’s details had been entered in the Marriage Notice Book. Stan

Under the Marriage and Registration Act 1856 a licence, authorizing an immediate marriage could be issued on the second day after entry in the book.

Stan

[Ruskie]

Perhaps a second marriage for one of both of them. 

[GeneCat]

Perhaps a second marriage for one of both of them. 

No, listed as bachelor and spinster on cert. Good thinking though Ruskie