Help needed re surname of Agnes who married Samuel Graham NESBITT - completed

[Joy Dean]

Without buying their marriage certificate, is there any way of finding out her former surname, please? I have tried searching for the marriage for an Agnes to Samuel Nesbitt without success so far.

Samuel's first wife died in 1891; I have her death certificate.

He and Agnes married June qr Belfast district in 1895 (from the Mormons' site.) The 1911 census tells me that they had been married for 16 years which verifies the marriage registration.

[shanew147]

Here's possible marriage cross-match from the BMD Index

 name: Samuel Graham Nesbitt
 registration district: Belfast
 event type: Marriage
 Quarter and year: Apr-Jun 1895
 Volume : 1 / Page: 271

 name: Agnes Graham
 [same references as Samuel]


Shane

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
    17 Apr 1895 Samuel Graham Nesbitt married Agnes Graham in St. Annes Church of Ireland, Shankill, Belfast. Fathers were Robert Nesbitt and William Graham.

Regards

[Joy Dean]

Thank you very much to both of you.


Yes, Samuel's father was Robert, a joiner. That is interesting, that they married in the Church of Ireland; they both gave their religious denomination as Presbyterian in the 1901 and 1911 census.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   The bride may have been Church of Ireland before marriage, married in her own church which was normal and then adopted her husbands religion after marriage, again normal.

Regards

[Joy Dean]

Very good, thank you again very much to both of you.