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Norfolk marriage bond advice
« on: Tuesday 29 November 16 18:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi

I'm trying to locate the marriage license for James Woodward who married Elizabeth Buxton in 1793 at eaton, all the marriage licenses seem to be publicly available on the familysearch website except there is no index so finding individual licenses is very difficult.
Does anyone have any advice for finding specific licenses without having to go through several 1000 slow loading web pages.

Thanks

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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 29 November 16 19:06 GMT (UK) »
I've only ever seen marriage licenses (the actual bit of paper) at a Local Record Office.
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 29 November 16 19:08 GMT (UK) »
sorry i meant the bonds...

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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 29 November 16 21:02 GMT (UK) »
Here they are:-
Page 1 & 2 ( Norfolk Dean and Chapter of Norwich 1790-1799: Images 75 and 76 of 256)

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ixv/

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ixw/

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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 29 November 16 22:42 GMT (UK) »
thank you so much

really appreciate that!


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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 30 November 16 08:41 GMT (UK) »
You're welcome  :)

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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #6 on: Friday 09 December 16 21:53 GMT (UK) »
Here they are:-
Page 1 & 2 ( Norfolk Dean and Chapter of Norwich 1790-1799: Images 75 and 76 of 256)

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ixv/

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ixw/

yokel

You did this once for me ... HOW do you do it, it's most impressive.

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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 10 December 16 21:34 GMT (UK) »
Hi BugBear

I start by finding the Probate Court of where the marriage took place using http://maps.familysearch.org/ then select the required court/year on the Norfolk Marriage Bonds site
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j0q/ . Then it is just a case of looking through the pages.

I usually zoom in on the center of the page to find the Grooms name, if I can read the name on the first page I skip the second page, if the first page is not very clear I look at the signature on the second page. This usually halves the number of pages you have to look at.

I also helps having a fairly fast broadband connection 30Mbps.

As you know there are some indexes available and some years have an index, it's worth checking the last page to see if the index is at the end.

The hard bit comes when the years for the bonds overlap or the bond you are looking for has been lost or misfiled.

The good thing about looking through these is that you sometimes find one of your own  :)

yokel




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Re: Norfolk marriage bond advice
« Reply #8 on: Monday 12 December 16 08:56 GMT (UK) »

As you know there are some indexes available and some years have an index, it's worth checking the last page to see if the index is at the end.


Hah - that's where you're wrong!  >:(

I didn't know that.  :-[

 :)

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