Finding a marriage bond/license?

[bugbear]

Familysearch host this lovely resource:

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

•     Archdeaconry of Norfolk. Court
•      Archdeaconry of Norwich. Court
•     Dean and Chapter of Norwich
•      Diocese of Norwich. Consistory Court

I have a wedding celebrated in Saint Mary's, Banham:
12 Oct 1758 between John Reeve of Kenninghall and Mary Phillips OTP, marr. by license.

I suspect Mary Phillips may well be the one mentioned in Edward Phillips Will of 1758.

So I'd very much like to see who's names are on that license.

I know these licenses aren't indexed - but can anyone tell me which of the four Jurisdictions I should be patiently paging though?

  BugBear

[bugbear]

Found it;

For other people:

Go to the familysearch maps page:

http://maps.familysearch.org/

Type your Parish and hit search:

Click the link, and you're given a zoomed in map, and a dialog.

Click the jurisdiction tab of the dialog!

  BugBear

[bugbear]

Oh. That's disappointing. Having found I needed  "Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk" for Banham, I went to that section.

I'm looking for 1758, and there's a nice 1757-1759 entry.

And there a front-of-book index! Page to 'R':

No Reeve !?

Is it "normal" for a bond to be missing, or have I made an obvious mis-step?

  BugBear

[bugbear]

OK. I have now paged through the entire 447 images of Archdeaconry of Norfolk Court, 1757-1759.

Old School genealogy is slow. 

Anyway, I can confirm that whoever made the index in the front of that register was right - there is no Reeve bond in there.

Is the license referred to in the parish register likely to be somewhere else? Have I looked it up wrong? Or has it  just succumbed to the passage of years, in some unfortunate way?

  BugBear

[The Yokel]

Hi BugBear

Banham being in the Diocese of Norwich (as per Jurisdiction Tab) some of the Bonds look like they are filed there.

Diocese of Norwich. Consistory Court
1756-1758:- 403 images
1758:- 190 images
1758-1759:- 540 images

So there are a potential 1133 images to check.

OK. I have now paged through the entire 447 images of Archdeaconry of Norfolk Court, 1757-1759.

Old School genealogy is slow.

This link will save you a bit of time http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kgp/


yokel

[bugbear]

Hi BugBear

Banham being in the Diocese of Norwich (as per Jurisdiction Tab) some of the Bonds look like they are filed there.

Diocese of Norwich. Consistory Court
1756-1758:- 403 images
1758:- 190 images
1758-1759:- 540 images

So there are a potential 1133 images to check.

OK. I have now paged through the entire 447 images of Archdeaconry of Norfolk Court, 1757-1759.

Old School genealogy is slow.

This link will save you a bit of time http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kgp/


yokel

Short term; thank you very much!
Longer Term; you have just proved that I don't know how to find these on my own. I need to learn.

  BugBear

[The Yokel]

you're welcome

[amondg]

deleted, I see you found it.

[bugbear]

Dear "The Yokel"; can you advise further on how to locate which court's documents to look in?

In one of your earlier guidance posts you said:

I start by finding the Probate Court of where the marriage took place using http://maps.familysearch.org/

And yet on this occasion the bond was filed under the court associated with the Diocese.

Can you explain how you knew, and how I might know in future?

 BugBear