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Offline Wexflyer

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Re: 1885 Church Wedding record but missing from Civil Registration?
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 12 January 20 17:46 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Sinann on Sunday 12 January 20 16:43 GMT (UK)

I still don't understand.
If a marriage is registered surely it's legal.
I could understand if it was in the church register only but when it has a Civil cert isn't it legal.

Registering an illegal non-marriage does not make it legal or valid.
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Re: 1885 Church Wedding record but missing from Civil Registration?
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 12 January 20 18:16 GMT (UK) »
I think churches kept a separate register for marriages which were valid in Canon Law, but not valid/legal in state law.
In the early 1990s, our distant cousin got a church annulment of his marriage. He married soon after that in a Catholic church. As there was no divorce in Ireland, this marriage was fine by the church, but bigamous by law. So registered by the Church, but not sent to the GRO with the other marriages.

They had to wait several years to get a divorce and marry legally.
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Re: 1885 Church Wedding record but missing from Civil Registration?
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 12 January 20 19:26 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Wexflyer on Sunday 12 January 20 17:46 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Sinann on Sunday 12 January 20 16:43 GMT (UK)

I still don't understand.
If a marriage is registered surely it's legal.
I could understand if it was in the church register only but when it has a Civil cert isn't it legal.

Registering an illegal non-marriage does not make it legal or valid.

Ah I see what your getting at now.
The legality of it doesn't really matter so, it may or may not be registered.
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