JM has some excellent advice about those blanks on historic NSW marriage certs. Essentially not all info was passed onto reg so need to contact church archives to get the missing info.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,546609.0.html
cheers,
Ros
Thanks Ros
Yes, those blanks you notice on the NSW BDM record of the marriage ARE simply because NSW BDM has not ever finalised their own tasks of reconciliation that they started over 100 years ago.
The bride and the groom both provided the clergyman with the names of their respective parents (including their mums’ nee names, the occupations of their dads) and they also provided that clergyman with their own places of birth and their own ages as well as other information that did not get forwarded to the NSW BDM due to a long running dispute between “Church and State” that was not resolved in NSW until the mid 1890s.
The clergymen DID record the information and NSW BDMs website notes it, and gives you pointers to overcoming the lack of info on their own records.
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/bdm_fh/bdm_rec.html“1856 to 1895 church marriage registers … the task …… the marriage registrations was never finalised. The Registry's records from these years are not complete and it can be worthwhile for genealogists to contact the relevant church to find details missing from a marriage “.Remember of course that info on a marriage certificate is information given FIRST HAND so it is often considered more reliable than say info on a death cert, So it would be sensible to seek out the church registers current location and find the info they gave the clergyman. Please type up the info that IS on that marriage cert.
Date and place of Marriage
BRIDEGROOM’s:
Full Name
Occupation
Place of residence
Conjugal status
Place and date of birth
Age
Father’s full name
Mother’s full name, including former and nee names
BRIDE’s
Full Name
Occupation
Place of residence
Conjugal status
Place and date of birth
Age
Father’s full name
Mother’s full name, including former and nee names
Married according to the rites of : (denomination)
With the consent of
Who were the witnesses?
What was the clergyman’s name?
……………………………………….
From the NSW ER 1878 SHOALHAVEN
John HOLLAND, residence, Nowra
John HOLLAND, junior, residence Nowra
Willam HOLLAND, residence Terara
GREVILLES PO Dir 1875 for Nowra has a John HOLLAND, a bootmaker. I can find Terara in that edition, but NO mention of HOLLAND or variations.
Cheers, JM
