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Offline bevo

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Same couple married twice?
« on: Sunday 10 September 17 07:46 BST (UK) »

I've found a couple who seem to have married twice: 1st time July 1821 and 2nd time in January 1822.
Different churches, different witnesses, but it seems like the same couple to me.
Has anyone else found something similar?
Perhaps they forgot they'd already married?

Names are Jonathan Dickson and Elizabeth Reece.

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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 10 September 17 07:49 BST (UK) »
Is it significant that one marriage was in church, and just says "of this parish", while the other was in chapel, and names the parish of residence?
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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 10 September 17 08:54 BST (UK) »
The two are in different religions as it's a church and a chapel. The chapel might mean Methodist chapel and it's in the 1820s. Up to 1837 a Methodist marriage wasn't a legal ceremony, you had to marry in the C of E. It looks like they went through a legal marriage at the church then later a marriage ceremony at the chapel because one or both of them weren't C of E.

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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 10 September 17 11:32 BST (UK) »


The first marriage was at St James, Toxteth Park and the second at St Nicholas.



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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 10 September 17 12:05 BST (UK) »


The first marriage was at St James, Toxteth Park and the second at St Nicholas.

St Nicholas where?
There wasn't s St Nicholas at Toxteth Park?
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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 10 September 17 12:06 BST (UK) »
St Nicholas in Liverpool.  ;)
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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 10 September 17 12:11 BST (UK) »
Our Lady & St Nicholas, Chapel Street, Anglican?
St Nicholas, Berkley Street, Greek Orthodox?
St Nicholas, Hawke Street, Copperas Hill, Roman Catholic?

None of which is a chapel?
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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 10 September 17 12:18 BST (UK) »
Snipped image of the first page in the register - sorry it is reversed  :)

Added:  All 190+ pages of the book state "Chapel" and they appear under the C of E records.

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Re: Same couple married twice?
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 10 September 17 12:42 BST (UK) »
Both marriages were after Banns so C of E, not nonconformist.

Chapel may have referred to a Chapel of Ease, these were built in large parishes to make it easier for people to attend church, rather than having to travel distances to the Parish Church,
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.