Hello Helen
From one family, 30+ is a *LOT* of couples to choose to marry in
London. I have just one instance where the groom from Kent married in
London, but his bride was from Hampshire so I only assume that they
went to the capital in search of work. He, like his father before him,
was a blacksmith in Kent and they moved back to Kent straight away
where he worked his own forge. Maybe he'd spent a couple of years
working on the building of the new railway (1840s) which could have
taken him to London. She, most likely was in service.
The marriage certificate (or marriage register if pre 1837) will say
married in...xxxxxx....church according to the rites and ceremonies of
.....xxxxxxxxx......(church denomination). The minister might or might
not have included "by banns" in this bit.
Publishing of banns was the usual precurser to a marriage in a CofE
church. They either had to have banns read on three Sundays within
three months of the marriage but I think that they (one of the couple)
only had to be resident in that parish for the week of the last
reading. The alternative was a bishop's licence (ordinary or common
licence) which was more expensive, but I think it only took 7 days to
obtain and was less "public" though still required the marriage to take
place in the stated church building. A special licence, issued by the
Archbishop of Canterbury is/was VERY rare and enabled the couple to
marry in any CofE church building.
If the marriage was in a register office the options were
Superintendent's certificate, the equivalent of a bishop's licence, or
Superintendent Registrar's licence which was the equivalent of the
bishop's licence. A Registrar General's certificate, the civil
equivalent of the Archbishop's Special licence was not available until
1971
A few websites that may be of interest:
http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/marriages.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_license
http://www.peterboroughdiocesanregistry.co.uk/marriage.html
Brenda
I have a lot of family members on my tree who were born in the 1800s
in villages around Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, etc.
These are simple, country folk with the men often being farm labourers
and the like. Anyway, there are a significant numbers (over 30) of
marriages in London and I am wondering why this would have been? For
example, you have person A born in village X, marries B also born in
X. They go to London and get married then come back and their
children are all born in or around X. The districts of London
involved vary (St Pancras, Lambeth, Holborn, to name but a few). Can
any of you shed any light on why they would have married in this way?
A lot of the villages would have had rail links with London but still.
Also, would one or both have had to move there for several weeks to
meet the residency criteria - they would hardly have had the money for
a special license, surely - or was there some sort of way round that?
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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