1802 marriage Herefordshire

[emeltom]

Having checked the holdings at the RO and the dates available on FindMyPast there would appear to be a gap in the records from 1796 to 1813 so I wonder why fs seems to have the info when no one else does.

Emeltom

[jonw65]

Why do they find it so difficult to include the name of the church and where it is in their transcriptions?

I agree it is very annoying! I seem to remember that many entries on FamilySearch from Suffolk BT's had no specific place given. And sometimes when there are multiple parishes on the same film they index the record with the wrong parish, or even different parishes if there is more than one transcription.
I guess it keeps us on our toes!

[mazi]

Having checked the holdings at the RO and the dates available on FindMyPast there would appear to be a gap in the records from 1796 to 1813 so I wonder why fs seems to have the info when no one else does.

Emeltom

Perhaps because the chapel is in wales and the mother church is in england 

Search engines are very pedantic

Mike

[mazi]

Melockie has transcriptions of Worthen and it’s chapel, having scrolled right down to the end there is a gap in marriages from 1799-1806.

Mike

[emeltom]

Thanks Mike.

Emeltom

[jonw65]

They might have lost a marriage register? Leaving just the entries in the BT's for that period.

[mazi]

Melockie describes the register thus,

Volume vi is the usual printed marriage register and contains marriages and banns from 1754 to 1812,
So why the gap I do not know.

Mike

[mazi]

First I have just seen this

Bapt. 1801 jan 2 Thomas natural s. of Sarah jones by Edward thomas.

There is also one marriage recorded in 1802, and one notice of banns for a marriage at bishops castle.

The parish seems to average seven or eight marriages a year, so why only the one I don’t know.

Mike

Added: the baptism is the normal way he treats unmarried couples, there are several others the same

[jonw65]

OK, Trelystan was a chapelry in Worthen, rather than Chirbury. My mistake!

Bapt. 1801 jan 2 Thomas natural s. of Sarah jones by Edward thomas.

That's a good find.
There are three marriages at Worthen in 1802. We can see the book on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/shropshireparish11shro/page/444

But the Thomas-Jones marriage is recorded in the BT for the Trelystan chapelry (hopefully!). Which according to FamilySearch catalogue had it's own registers, with a gap in marriages 1797-1814
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/413813?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Best checked with the Record Office catalogue, but I think emeltom has done that.