Might still be mud, Len, but you have cleared it up a little more! Thanks as always, Kathleen On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 6:23 AM Len Swindley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Vi and Kathleen, > > To answer the query re. the the names of witnesses recorded on Irish marriage > certificates, I think it depended on the religious denomination: in > marriages recorded in many Church of Ireland parishes, the same name is > recorded as a witness for a number of years and in the case of Ardstraw > parish church, Newtownstewart, it was the parish clerk, Samuel Bates. > Upon his death in 1856 the role fell to his son George. Presbyterian > marriages, generally, record the names of families and friends as witnesses; > occasionally townland addresses are given. The same principle applied for > marriages performed in a Registrar's Office. > > > Interestingly, registers record cancelled marriages - the clergyman or his > clerk had prepared the register in advance, but for reasons unknown to us, > the marriage did not proceed. > > > Clear as mud. Hope this helps, > > Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] < > [email protected]> on behalf of Viola Wiggins < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, 10 April 2017 8:44:28 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [CoTyroneIreland] Witnesses to Marriages > > Kathleen > It would depend on where the event took place. > Civil registration of a marriage could have taken place at the Local > Registrar's Office and the repeated names may have been people available in > those Offices. > If it was in the Church that the bride attended then the witnesses would > be known to the couple. > Weddings were not the elaborate affairs as of today and may only have had > eight or nine people present as family and friends. > In my parents case the witnesses were my mother's sister and the best man > was of the same surname as my father, but supposedly unrelated. I now think > they were 3rd cousins. > The party returned to my maternal Grandparents home for the Wedding > Breakfast. > That was on 24th December 1926. > Viola > > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist >
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