Complted - BELLAMY-SINGLETON - Sydney or Parramatta

[Neilhilt]

James Bellamy and Hannah Singleton married on 15th June 1818.  It probably occured at St Johns V844-147B CB, but a registration also appears for St Phillips V21983A CA.
Can someone advise why there might be two registrations and which place is the one where the event occured.  I get nauseous winding through the micrfilm.

Thank you JM.

[Neilhilt]

Correction Parramatta rego should be V844-147B.

[majm]

Hi there,

During Gov Macquarie's administration, he instituted some general orders (see the Syd Gazette digitised at Trove, circa Sept 1810) that required clergy conducting bdm ceremonies to transmit a record of each of those services to the NSW Chaplain (At St Phillips ie at CA).   Thus a marriage conducted at CB should have been notified to the Chaplain at CA. 

Over 100 years later, the NSW BDM produced their index of the ECRs.  Thus, both the CB marriage and the transmitted record at CA are indexed, and both are filmed.   Some of the ECRs are indexed more than twice.   Some of the IGI extracted records overlooked transcribing records not found at CA.   Yes, I agree it can be nauseous going through the microfilm. 

If you would like "chapter and verse" expanding this further, please let me know.

Cheers,  JM  EDIT TO ADD, the marriage ceremony was most likely conducted at CB.