Residence at time of marriage

[DavidTaylor]

Is there any rhyme or reason to where people would list their residence on their marriage certificate?? I know they would often use the same address because of Banns, but sometimes I find addresses where I know these people never even lived.

[Little Nell]

Hi David,

As you say, it's to do with banns.  Basically if it meant they could be of the same parish, they didn't have to get the banns called elsewhere.  And I think there might have been a fee involved, particularly in the early 20th century.  My granddad apparently never lived at the address he claimed on his marriage.

Nell

[Gardener]

Mm, I think it was cheaper if both were in the same parish.

[Kimi]

Your'e not alone David, I have several certificates like that with the same street on all of them.  I know for a fact that they did not live there.

Kimi

[cheryle.f]

Hey guys hold on a min .......feel sorry for me!then. Ive been working in the same hotel for twenty six years.It was built in 1894 in bournemouth town centre.Imagine how i felt six months ago when my long awaited marriage cert of my grandmother(who i had no prior knowledge of except name and age)arrived and place of res. at time of marriage was my hotel.i freaked!The family were all (from recent findings) very working class and local to the area so i can only assume at the moment she was working there and living in.  Walking around the basement where the old kitchens were, gives me a completely different feeling now   

[Hackstaple]

I belive these addresses were called "suitcase addresses". If the applicant had a suitcase there it could be legally called his/her abode! I have  an example where the bride lived at No.22 in a street and the groom at No. 23. However, there never was a 23 in that street.
The purpose was to establish residence in that parish so that banns would not have to be called in two separate parishes [but someone has already pointed that out].

[suey]

I'm with you David - I have the  fellow living at No6 and his intended at No8 but neither of them lived anywhere near the address given on the marriage cert . 

Suey

[Shirley Sweetland]

Hi David my own marriage certificate in 1965 shows both my husnband and I at an address of a relative  that neither of us lived at because we wanted to marry at a particular church.


Regards
SS