Marriage

[tank8891]

Hi

Has anyone any ideas to why the same people might get married twice within 5 months. The first time, Dec 36, in a registry office with family witnesses, and the second time, Mar 37, in a church again with family witnesses. And both producing marriage certificates.

Yours hopefully

tank8891

[avm228]

Was the bridegroom in the armed forces? Sometimes this happens when permission from the commanding officer to marry had not been obtained first time around.

[tank8891]

No, on the wedding certificates he is a "Sales man, House furniture".

[stanmapstone]

The Marriage Acts allow a couple to have a religious ceremony after their civil marriage. The religious ceremony does not invalidate or supersede the civil marriage and it is not to be entered as a Marriage in the Parish Register Book.   The clergy were expressly instructed not to enter details of this ceremony in the Parish marriage register, but some may have done so and this entry submitted with the quarterly returns. If this happened then two entries would appear in the indexes, and there would be two marriage certificates. They could also have not told the minister that they had previously been married in a Register Office.

Stan

[tank8891]

  Thanks Stan that seems to fit with both certificates, with family witnesses and all. I shall in form the Mother in law

Tankk8891