Pages: 1 [2]

Author Topic: By Licence or after Banns?  (Read 8833 times)

Offline Helen D

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 319
    • View Profile
Re: By Licence or after Banns?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 10 March 06 11:19 GMT (UK) »
I have a registry office wedding in 1879 which says 'by certificate'. They lied about their ages, as she was 19 and pregnant, and the witnesses are not family. Presumably they didn't have to show any evidence of their ages?

Helen
Dowdell, Pressley, Snook, Read, Hurle, Small, Cannings .....  Wiltshire
Fitzgerald, Greenhill .... London
Thursfield, Newey, Berrisford, Wood, Hulme ..... Warwickshire/Staffordshire
Ditchfield, Unsworth, Clarke, Perrin, Orrett .... Cheshire/Lancs
Jones ..... N Wales

Offline Valda

  • RootsChat Honorary
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 16,160
    • View Profile
Re: By Licence or after Banns?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 10 March 06 18:40 GMT (UK) »
Or anything else - their father's names, occupations, their occupations, their status or their names - which is very odd considering how much trust we as family historians often place on all the information we find on C19th and early C20th marriage certificates.

Regards

Valda
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Pages: 1 [2]