Banns 10 years before marriage?

[littlefacey]

Hiii!


I have a couple, Richard Webb and Eliza Godwin who seem to have banns registered (i think?) 10 years before they actually married? I've never seen this before?

Has anyone else had this before?

[PaulineJ]

I've seen a 4-year gap between Banns and Marriage.

Then they married in two different churches a week apart, just to be sure (even had the same witness at the second).  1850s Warwickshire

[bearkat]

Hardwickes's Marriage act stated that a marriage had to take place within 3 months of the banns being read.

I would check for further banns or a licence.

[glenclare]

There is another set of banns for 6th,13th and 20th May 1860 for Richard and Eliza

[littlefacey]

They appear in the 1851 censuses as living with their families so maybe  they split up and then got back together later on...

I know Richards sister, Ann and Eliza's brother, James were married in 1840 and he disappeared around mid - late 40's leaving her with several children so perhaps they thought that a marriage wasn't best suited at this time or they simply were sticking up for their siblings and fell out!

Guess there are just some thing records can't tell us!

[KGarrad]

Check when the parents died (all 4 of them!).
My grandfather married in August 1897; his father died in June 1897!
He was 21 when he married (birth in February), and I was told his father didn't approve of the marriage.