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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Norfolk => Topic started by: George1978 on Tuesday 29 November 16 18:43 GMT (UK)
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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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I've only ever seen marriage licenses (the actual bit of paper) at a Local Record Office.
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sorry i meant the bonds...
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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
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thank you so much
really appreciate that!
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You're welcome :)
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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.
BugBear
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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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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. :-[
:)
BugBear
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Hi BugBear :)
Hah - that's where you're wrong! >:(
I didn't know that. :-[
I refer to my reply to your post in April, Re: Norfolk Family History Society - worth joining?
NFHS did publish what are known as The Blue Books, which indexed some of the marriage bonds, see;- http://www.norfolkfhs.org.uk/bookstall/
These (I think) are still available
Norfolk Archdeaconry Marriage Licence Bonds Index 1780-1812(CD) £4 + £1.20 postage
Norwich Archdeaconry Marriage Licence Bonds 1813-1837 (Blue Vol 23) (Postage Only) £1.20 postage
Norfolk Archdeaconry Licence Bonds 1813 -1837 (Blue Vol 25) (Postage Only) £1.60
an inexpensive Christmas present ;D
yokel