Unusual entry on marriage certificate

[Bee]

While searching for a marriage I spotted this, never seen that before.

The column for the father's name  said  "Mother, then her name", the occupation column said "Singlewoman"

[Galium]

Was that in Mirfield, by any chance? It's the only place that I have seen that done.

[Bee]

Sproatley. East Yorkshire.

[BumbleB]

Apologies - I'm missing something somewhere!!

The column for the father's name  said  "Mother, then her name", the occupation column said "Singlewoman"

Would you be good enough to elaborate?

[Bee]

Apologies - I'm missing something somewhere!!

The column for the father's name  said  "Mother, then her name", the occupation column said "Singlewoman"

Would you be good enough to elaborate?

In the 8th column were you would expect to see the name of the father of the bride or groom, it says    Mother  Mary Jane Smith, and in the final column for rank or profession it say "singlewoman"

[Galium]

I think Bee is talking about a marriage record like this one from Mirfield:

20 July 1838 Joseph Richardson  f/a bachelor  waterman  Lee Green  John Richardson  waterman
                   Elizabeth Tyne        f/a  spinster      -          Lee Green   Mary Tyne           singlewoman 

There are one or two others in this register where the 'father's name' box has eg: Joseph Brook & Betty Ellis singlewoman.

After this had been going on for a couple of years I think someone told them to stop.

[AntonyMMM]

These do crop up in parish marriage registers occasionally - I've seen quite a few examples, and would have been at the discretion  of the vicar.

The father's details aren't part of the information that is legally required to be included on the register, so it isn't a problem .

[BumbleB]

Many thanks, never seen that before.

[dobfarm]

Normally its put when a father is decease when the child was young being brought up by the mother or if the groom or bride was born illegitimate with no known fathers name and in some rare occasions the vicar may have been at the church/parish when he participated in the  baptism of said child (now groom or bride) . The vicar may have remembered the bride or groom as child and knew the child as it grew up without a father in a small village. Also you say this mother on the marriage certificate was a single woman