Same couple married twice?

[KGarrad]

It's so confusing?!

St Nicholas was the Parish Church of Liverpool - so hardly a Chapel of Ease?

EDIT: Light begins to dawn!
The Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Liverpool. The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least 1257. The church is situated close to the River Mersey near the Pier Head. The Chapel of St Nicholas (Patron Saint of Sailors) was built on the site of St Mary del Quay.
The chapel was used as the main centre of worship until 1355. A new chapel dedicated to St Mary and St Nicholas was built on land granted to the burgesses by the Duke of Lancaster. It was under construction for more than a century.

[bevo]

They were married at Our Lady and St Nicholas with St Anne, Chapel Street
1659 - 1961.

This marriage is on the Lancashire OPC site.

[andrewalston]

The original Parish Church of Liverpool was St. Mary's at Walton on the Hill.
Around 1700, St. Peter's in the city centre was built on order to be a parish in its own right.
Eventually, St. Peter's (on Church Street) was demolished, and St. Nicholas / "Our Lady and St. Nicholas with St. Anne" (on Chapel Street) became Liverpool's Parish Church. The current building is a reconstruction of the building which was destroyed in the blitz.

[stanmapstone]

There is no one called John Smith N?tt in the clergy database http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/search/index.jsp so it could be they found that the  first marriage was invalid and they had to get married again.

Stan

[JohninSussex]

The clergyman at the first marriage is "John Smith M.A., minister".  With the talk of CofE vs non conformist, I'm a bit surprised to see the description "minister" for an Anglican cleric, whereas the second "curate" is quite normal.  So could the first wedding be in a independent church which perhaps copied the CofE register template, even though their marriage wasn't lawful?

[bevo]

From the Lancashire OPC site:
"The church of St. James', Toxteth Park was opened for Divine service on 4th June 1775, although the church was not consecrated until the following month. The church was not assigned a Parish until 1844 ..."
Perhaps this is why there was a church/chapel difference.

I've checked the other marriages on the same page, and none of them married again, though.

[stanmapstone]

It would be interesting to know if this John Smith carried out any other weddings.

Stan

[Jomot]

There is a death notice in the Lancaster Gazette on 13 January 1827 for Rev John Smith MA Minister of St James (at his fathers house), and another on 31 October 1818 for Elizabeth, wife of Rev John Smith, Minister of St James's, Liverpool.

Also in 1803 the marriage at Chester of the Rev. John Smith, B. A. Minister of St. James's, Liverpool, and in 1836 the marriage of Mary, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Smith, M. A., Minister of St. James's, Toxteth Park.

Looks to me as though the Rev. Smith was legitimate.

[stanmapstone]

It looks as though there were two Rev. John Smiths, father and son.
John Smith BA, was licensed as a curate at Toxteth, St. James Chapel, on 6th May 1803. John Smith MA was licensed to  the Perpetual Curacy of  Toxteth Park St James, on 6th June 1833, on the secession of the late incumbent the Rev. Thomas Henry Heathcote.
http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/search/index.jsp

Stan