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Offline PillyP

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Register Office marriages.
« on: Wednesday 06 August 08 15:32 BST (UK) »
On a marriage that was carried out in a Register Office, the words 'by certificate before me' appear before the registrar's signature. What information would have been on this certificate and would witnesses have been required? Was a fee payable and like banns, did some set time have to elapse before the marriage?
The time period in question is 1891 Wales.
Questions probably asked many times, but hope someone can enlighten me, I may have a mystery to solve.
Thanks in advance,
Pilly
Pearce, Bown,Bulpin, Dyte, Haysham, Pike, Cridge from Somerset
Grisley, Miller, Walker,Channings from London East End
Poffley, Childs from Berkshire
Belton from Sussex
Ball, Duce, Arkinstall from Shropshire
Stock, Pearce, Wheeler from The Isle of Wight
McVicar, McLachlan from Argyll & London East End

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Re: Register Office marriages.
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 06 August 08 15:36 BST (UK) »
I think thats a normal marriage - unlike getting a special licence ...

explanations hopefully here

http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/marriages.htm
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Register Office marriages.
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 06 August 08 17:24 BST (UK) »
Thank you for the reply, I'll investigate it.
Regards,
pilly
Bown/Pearce, Middlezoy, Somerset
Grisley, London, East End
Channing(s), London + Devon + ?
Ball, Dawley, Shropshire
Duce, Shropshire +
Pof(f)ley, Berkshire

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Re: Register Office marriages.
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 August 08 18:01 BST (UK) »
Hi,
I have a certificate for a marriage, in 1886, which took place a the Register Office in Nottingham - I know the groom came from a non-conformist (Unitarian) background, so this may have been their reason for not having a church wedding.
Paulene :)
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