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Could a couple marry twice?
« on: Thursday 29 April 21 11:26 BST (UK) »
I have the transcription for the marriage of John Collins, a bachelor of Chaddlesley Corbett, and Ann Robbins, a spinster of Droitwich, which took place on 6 October 1800 at Droitwich, St Peter. However,
I have just come across a transcribed record for a marriage between John Collins and a Miss Robbins (first name of bride is blank) on 6 October 1800 at Pedmore. Were John and Ann married twice on the same day?  ???

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« Reply #1 on: Thursday 29 April 21 11:34 BST (UK) »
One could be the record of banns rather than the actual marriage.

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Re: Could a couple marry twice?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 29 April 21 11:36 BST (UK) »
I agree with Mike, one could be a record of the banns. You say it is a transcribed record - is it possible to view the actual image anywhere?
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 29 April 21 11:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks for both of your thoughts. I've had problems with Worcestershire parish registers before as not many seem to have been scanned, they're mostly all transcripts unfortunately! The bride had been baptised at Droitwich, St Peter which makes more sense for the marriage to have taken place there. After their marriage, John and Ann went to Worcester and obviously John was said to have been of Chaddesley Corbett. As far as I knew, neither of them had links to Pedmore which is what is confusing me  ;D


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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 29 April 21 11:53 BST (UK) »
Name:   No Name Robbins
Gender:   Female
Marriage Date:   06 Oct 1800
Marriage Place:   Pedmore, Worcester, England
Spouse:   
John Collins
FHL Film Number:   328834

FHL catalogue has
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A328834

This film covers Pedmore and assorted records for Worcester. It would not be the first time that the LDS have transcribed an entry under the wrong parish on the same film. 
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 29 April 21 11:55 BST (UK) »
Both churches were St Peter - certainly scope for confusion
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 29 April 21 11:56 BST (UK) »
I assume you got your information from either Family Search or Findmypast, who got their transcription from Family Search.

 As has been suggested it may be referring to the banns, but there is another possibility. When the LDS filmed a parish, if there was still unused space on the end of the film, they used it up when filming another parish, consequently errors occurred when they were transcribed, and some events were recorded as taking place in both parishes. It was a problem  that I became aware of at least twenty years ago. I saw for myself the mixed  parishes when I viewed their films in an LDS research room.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 29 April 21 12:02 BST (UK) »
Yes, the Pedmore marriage was found on FS and the Droitwich marriage was found in the transcriptions of Droitwich parish registers which I purchased a few years ago. I agree that there was possibly some confusion between the two St Peters. The Droitwich transcription also includes the witnesses so the marriage must have taken place there.

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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 29 April 21 12:16 BST (UK) »
I have records where familysearch have transcribed registers as Adlington, Lancashire when they are in fact Morecambe (Poulton le Sands) some 40 miles away.  I have viewed this film and they were not baptised in Adlington
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