1852 marriage in St Bees?

[andarah]

I have looked up marriages in St Bees in the LDS library and their records stop in 1837.

Does anyone know how I can get a copy of this marriage without spending the full amount with the BMD?  Normally I pay a couple dollars for a photocopy with the LDS church, but they don't have this one.

The people I am looking for are John Reay and Jane Shilton.

Thanks for any guidance!

[The Mc]

Freebmd confirms marriage June 1852 vol 10b page  639 Whitehaven District.....

[Geoff-E]

An e-mail to the records office in Whitehaven will cost you nothing - I'd be surprised if they would charge too much.  How do you know the marriage took place in St Bees?

http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/recordoffices/whrec.asp

[andarah]

I am not positive that they married in St Bees.  However, they were both in St Bees, separately, in 1851.  Their children, starting in 1853, were christened in the St Bees Parish Church.

They lived in St Bees up until the time of this death, which was registered in Carlisle in 1883.  She later died near London in 1915.

So, while it is an assumption at this point, I think it's a good one.

Baptisms and burial records are available in St Bees, but for some reason, marriages are not available after 1837.  I'm sure it's connected to the date of civil registration, but I wonder why they only changed the method for marriages and not baptisms and burials.


Thanks for the link to the archives office!