Official transcriptions record what is on the official record. NSW BDM official records for marriages in that era IF they have been reconciled note that action in the margin, as I described earlier in this thread and attached a snip.
Official transcribers as part of their responsibilities note that margin endorsement on their transcription.
I find it hard to understand how any clergyman had any authoriity to conduct a civil marriage ceremony in the Registrars office in 1859.
In NSW in that era the clergy conducted marriage ceremonies in accordance with the rites of the denomination that ordained them, and which naturally reflected the form of the 1855 NSW marriage Acts. The ceremony was in two concurrent parts, mostly religious.
When it came the moment for signing, the church registers included all the details, and the civil register was basically just a summary, sometimes scant family history noted, often no ages, no birth places, no parents details etc. That summary info often was all that the NSW BDM had on the marriages 1856-1895 until the NDWBDM commenced to reconcile their own records with the church records.
From 1856, the statute law allowed civil ceremonies (ceremonies without a religious form) to be conducted by Civil officers appointed by the Registrar General.
Thanks Judith for chasing W Chatfield. On a quick phone hook up with my retired rellies, no sighting by that name as a Minister of Religion. Likely a Registry Office marriage.
JM.
