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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: clairec666 on Friday 30 November 18 10:06 GMT (UK)
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This appeared on "Findmypast Fridays" today:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-marriage-licences (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-marriage-licences)
Britain, marriage licenses
Findmypast is excited to bring you some of the earliest marriage records we hold with records from as early as 1115. Fifteen English counties are represented including London, Lancashire, Suffolk, Exeter, Lincoln, Yorkshire, and more. Marriage licenses will reveal your ancestor’s intended spouse, father’s name, and the intended marriage place.
Locations are a bit limited, but I've found quite a few of my Suffolk relatives already. I've been a bit frustrated with Findmypast's lack of new records recently, so this is a move in the right direction. :)
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Wish they'd spell Licences properly though.
Melbell :'(
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Wish they'd spell Licences properly though.
Melbell :'(
They did
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-marriage-licences
;D
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It is good to see a bigger database on FindMyPast released. Nice to get Suffolk and Sussex in the list, as well as Gloucestershire.
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The Suffolk ones appear to be published transcripts which have been available to view for free elsewhere for some time anyway.
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Wish they'd spell Licences properly though.
Melbell :'(
My mistake. Was typing in a hurry. Slightly embarrassed because I usually pick up other people on their spelling errors. (Or there errors... ;D )
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The Suffolk ones appear to be published transcripts which have been available to view for free elsewhere for some time anyway.
Ditto for Sussex?
Calendar of Sussex marriage licences.....
https://archive.org/details/calendarofsussex01chicuoft/page/n13
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I looked at some of these today. They were from publications of Paver's Marriage Licences.
Don't forget to look at the image as well as the transcription. I've already sent a correction...
Venelow
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Hopefully, I'll be able to find out the name of my 11 x g.grandmother.
I know all about 11 x g.grandfather, born 1505 Suffolk, died 1558, buried 1 March 1558 in Westerfield, Ipswich, Suffolk, but I can't find out the name of his wife. He was a church warden and yeoman. I've even got his will and strange man that he must have been he leaves bequests to his sons John and George, (well he leaves them his land, but apart from a small acreage that they live on, it has to be sold first for £400 but if the sons choose to buy it they only have to pay £350, if they choose not to buy the land, then it can be sold to the highest bidder and they will receive some of the proceeds.
He leaves small bequests to his daughters Agnes, Elizabeth and Mary (Marie), then more bequests to John and George, then to 2 daughters of his son John, then another bequest to his son George's godson, then to 2 godsons, money to be given to them on their marriage, then another bequest to "every one of my other godchildren", then another bequest to his son George, and, finally he remembers his wife. Unfortunately, he doesn't name her, he just calls her "my wife" and not only that he only gives her money from his sons' land and if she keep herself a widow, the best parlour the salon over that, the buttery and the salon over that. And if she marry, I will that she shall not meddle with the house. And the mean man that he was, if she didn't agree to his terms, then she would lose everything and also he takes from his daughters everything he's given to them, except from 100 marks each, everything else going to his son George.
Nice man ??? ::) I've got lots of wills from a similar period, but never have I read one that is so obviously chauvinistic.
I really would like to find out the name of his long-suffering wife.
Interestingly, about 6 years before his death he had signed over the Manor House where he lived to his eldest son John. John was the exact opposite of his father. In his will, he transferred the manor to his wife so she could bring up their daughter's children (the daughter being feeble minded). Only after his wife's death would the manor pass to their eldest son. There's another story as to how and why their feeble minded daughter came to be married with children.
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Occasionally you do find that new FindMyPast Friday records are merely duplicates of records already available online on other pay per view sites, or even free on FamilySearch. So really they are not new records.
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There were no records for my ancestor's marriage on FindMyPast (his death was on there). Ancestry has him on some of their family trees, as does Familysearch, (all submitted, but the records are all wrong), they have him married to his mother, or even his daughter. I guess no-one can find out who his wife is, so they've just made things up.
As he'd been a church warden, I even wrote to the Parish Clerk of the church, but they don't hold records of church wardens and he wasn't listed in the marriages in their records. I guess I'll just have to look further afield, although I don't know where if a general search of all sites doesn't show anything.
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If they spelt "licences" "properly" , it would say "properly".
Pedantically and semantically,
Martin
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Of course, the discovery of a marriage licence is not evidence that the marriage took place, any more than the reading of banns is. Just a thought.
Dale
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Not even found any banns for my 11 x g.grandfather's marriage. His first child was born 1531, so I guess the marriage was before then. I don't even know if there were such things as banns at that time.
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The Suffolk ones appear to be published transcripts which have been available to view for free elsewhere for some time anyway.
Ooh - where? (please)
BugBear