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The gift subscriptions have 25% off too. Maybe you could gift yourself a sub…

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Give your loved ones the gift of their past this Christmas, with 25% off selected gift subscriptions in our Black Friday sale from now until 10:00 am (GMT) on Friday 9 December.


Edited to add

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/help/articles/5659279786397-how-do-i-buy-a-findmypast-gift-subscription

Unlike standard Findmypast subscriptions, our gift subscriptions do not auto-renew. Your recipient’s access to paid areas of the site will end when your chosen subscription expires. If they wish, they can continue their family history journey by entering their billing details and becoming a paying subscriber at the end of their gift membership.

It’s worth remembering that if the person you’re buying for already has an active Findmypast subscription, you should wait until it ends before buying them a gift subscription. They won’t be able to redeem a gift subscription if they already subscribe. We currently can’t transfer a gift subscription to someone else.

My sub ran out today and offer still works for me although I’m not renewing just yet.

Totally off the topic of this post, but one photograph of register entries has
Rev Jos Brooke .
Date 1805 .
There was a very well known
Cleric of that name at Manchester Cathedral that date.
Quite a fierce but down to earth man,mentioned at length in a book written about the time of Peterloo,” The Manchester Man, “.
There is a statue of him in Manchester Cathedral.
Not all churches were licensed for marriages or Christenings, so people would go to have babies Christened ,or adults married in The Cathedral ,which was.
He often refused to give babies their parents’ choice of name, !
I was very pleased and interested to see his name.
Viktoria.

A friend of mine went to see a play about Joshua Brookes at the Cathedral quite a few years ago - something about missing grooms - wished I’d gone too. I couldn’t believe what I heard when she said if a groom was late for the wedding Joshua Brookes would get another male from the congregation as a stand in for the groom and continue with the marriage…

Barbara

This is reply I got in Sept 2015. I too wanted to know who the bride and grooms mothers were. I ended up taking a short break there and visiting the church where they married to get the information. Think the cut off was March 1881 for what I wanted which was Oct 1881 - bummer!
Appreciated the break though and found it quite overwhelming visiting the church and surrounding villages.

Good morning Barbara and thank you for your e-mail.
 
We are delighted that you are enjoying using our site.
 
The National Library of Ireland currently has no plans to acquire and digitise any further Parish Church Records.  We have digitised those that we hold on microfilm here, which were originally filmed by us in the 1950’s and 1960’s, which are those up to 1880/81.
 
The reason we didn’t film after that date, is because Civil Registration started here in 1864.  From 1864, births, marriages and deaths have been registered and are held in the General Registers Office (GRO).  See: www.groireland.ie
 
An index to these records may be found on www.familysearch.org – this is a free site, and also www.findmypast.com which is a subscription site. Once you have the index, you may go to the General Registers Office Research Facility, Werburgh Street, Dublin and for € 4.00 you may purchase a copy of the certificate.  If you are not in a position to go to the facility, you may order the certificate online, see www.groireland.ie