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Offline Cell

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Re: Witness names ? Help please
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 20 October 24 08:26 BST (UK) »

I have just  been searching my computer ( I suddenly had a bright idea when reading my thread and your replies  ) that maybe I had a transcription of the church marriage somewhere   that I purchased  from the Ulster foundation many  years ago (ie not  the   civil  record) that would give the witness names that they thought the church  record reads of the witnesses  ,  but sadly it seems  I've not  purchased that one from them, or at least I can't  find it on my computer , I only have the  civil 

Are you sure?
This was a Registry Office marriage, so there won't be a corresponding church record. And if they had married in church, then why would they need a Registry Office ceremony as well?
Of course, silly me  lol.  !!  ;D No- wonder  I couldn't  find   the church  record that I thought  I  may have purchased from Ulster foundation on my computer!! Lol   

 I was wondering  why I couldn't  find the "missing" church record  in  my computer because  that was so unlike me not to have bought the church record - But yet  I knew they married  in   the  reg office! Lol  , gosh I must have been really tired .
I originally  purchased the above  civil marriage from  GRONI years ago (I thought I also had a record of the marriage from their non existent marriage in  a church too ! Lol).
Kind regards  :)

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Regarding church and reg office, I  have one couple that  married  in  both , they married  in a church  first,  and later married again in the reg office, not that it was the case with the above couple at all ,- that was  just me  having a  brain lapse lol.-   I  even spent  an hour  searching  my computer trying  to find the missing file!   ;D lol
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Re: Witness names ? Help please
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 20 October 24 11:45 BST (UK) »
Yes, there can be marriages recorded both in the Registry Office and church. One example in my area is from the local Reformed Presbyterian Church where the minister was not authorised by the civil authories to perform marriages so a couple had to also get married in the Registry Office. Interestingly enough, whenever such marriages were announced in the local newspaper the venue was the church (never the Registry Office).
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