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1877 marriage in Bolton in Register Office
« on: Monday 06 June 16 14:44 BST (UK) »
I've just received the marriage certificate of a couple getting married in 1877 in Bolton. I found out it was 1877 from findmypast but when I went on the Lancashire Parish Registers website I was confused to not be able to find their marriage transcription. Their subsequent children were all baptised and I could see their baptism transcriptions and then later on the burials of the couple in question but no marriage.
Upon receiving the marriage certificate in the post, I found that they were married in Bolton Register Office. Neither had been married before, they had no previous children and based on dates of their children the wife wasn't pregnant at the time of their marriage.
So I'm wondering why they got married in a register office and not a church??
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Re: 1877 marriage in Bolton in Register Office
« Reply #1 on: Monday 06 June 16 14:50 BST (UK) »
Were they married by Superintendent Registrar’s Licence? A Superintendent Registrar was empowered to issue a Superintendent Registrar’s Licence, authorizing a marriage only seven days after the couple’s details had been entered in the Marriage Notice Book.

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Re: 1877 marriage in Bolton in Register Office
« Reply #2 on: Monday 06 June 16 14:53 BST (UK) »
Ah yes, it says 'Deputy Superintendent Registrar' on the certificate! Thank you!

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Re: 1877 marriage in Bolton in Register Office
« Reply #3 on: Monday 06 June 16 15:53 BST (UK) »
sorry, it says superintendent registrar but says they were married by certificate. how is this different from licence please? thank you.


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Re: 1877 marriage in Bolton in Register Office
« Reply #4 on: Monday 06 June 16 16:18 BST (UK) »
A Registrar's Certificate could only be issued twenty one days after the notice of marriage was entered in the Marriage Notice Book in the Register office.
A Register Office Marriage is always before a Registrar of Marriages and a Superintendent Registrar in the District Register Office.

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Re: 1877 marriage in Bolton in Register Office
« Reply #6 on: Monday 06 June 16 16:26 BST (UK) »
that's excellent, thank you!