james forshaw

[eileendavid]

Can anyone please look up a marriage of a James Forshaw at St Phillips Liverpool to Elizabeth Birdshall 30.01.1828.  In particular does it give him an occupation.

Thank You

Eileen

[rosie99]

No occupation - he was a bachelor -she was a spinster (minor) -married by licence
Her surname was written as Birdsall
wit Mary Slater -Ann Birdsall- David Pin_karton (jnr?)

[KGarrad]

Not sure you'll find an occupation for marriages around that date?

In 1754 - Lord Hardwick's Act required separate registers for marriages (plus banns books). These were recorded on printed forms. This law required that separate registers be kept for marriages. Prior to this time the record of marriages had been entered with the christenings and burials. To make the Act more effective, a special printed form was devised which called for the signatures of the officiating minister, the two witnesses and those of the bride and groom. An indication of the marital status of the bride and groom (spinster, bachelor, widow, widower) and their resident parish was given. Marriages were to be either by banns (announced from the pulpit on three successive Sundays) or by license and could not be performed in parochial chapelries unless special permission was obtained.

It ordered that records should be kept both of banns and of marriages, that these should be in books of vellum or good and durable paper, to be provided by the churchwardens. The entries ware to be signed by the parties and to follow a prescribed form, and the registers were to be carefully kept and preserved for public use.


Occupations weren't recorded until 1837.

[rosie99]

Not even the marriage announcement in the newspapers gave an occupation - just one line naming bride, groom and place of marriage

[eileendavid]

Thank you both for the information and your findings.

Eileen

[emeltom]

According to the Marriage Licence he was a Cooper.

Emeltom

[eileendavid]

Thanks for that

Eileen