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Two marriages for the same couple?

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grannyfranny

grannyfranny Report 24 Aug 2010 21:52

Each Church has a banns register too, separate from the marriage register. Some of the banns registers will have been transcribed. If you are marrying by banns, they have to be read in the brides church, the grooms church, and the church in which they are to be married, if different.

Researching:
Freeman of Berwick upon Tweed

MarkMorgan

MarkMorgan Report 24 Aug 2010 17:11

Thanks for that. I hadn't thought of Banns! The bride and two of her sisters get baptised in the Charlton Mackrell church on the same day earlier in the December too. I presume the vicar required it.

It could be an issue though if some of the Pilot FamilySearch indexers have been indexing banns as marriages (I believe banns are supposed to be indexed using the 3rd Sunday date that they are read). We'll be finding banns in one parish and recording that as the marriage in out trees!

I guess I'll need to see the original film images at an LDS centre to prove it.

Mark.

mgnv

mgnv Report 24 Aug 2010 15:27

No, they're not required - one can get married by licence too.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 24 Aug 2010 13:15

Yes Gerry,
Banns are still read.

Gwyn

Geraldine

Geraldine Report 24 Aug 2010 12:42

Hi Shirley

I have been living out of the UK for nearly 40 years. When I got married in England the banns had to be read in both my husbands Parish and mine.

I know things have changed a lot since we left the UK but just as a matter of interest are banns still required to be read before a marriage can take place in a church.

Just wondering :-)

Cheers Gerry

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 24 Aug 2010 08:17

when a couple live in two parishes then banns have to be put up in both places. Its usual to marry in the brides parish so it looks like what you see is the banns being put up in the grooms parish for the actual marriage to take place in the brides church.
Banns had to be read for 3 consecutive Sundays , from the pulpit , before the marriage took place.
Lots of couples got around this by the groom giving his place of abode as the brides address!

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 24 Aug 2010 01:23

I have to see the actual information together in one place!

1.

Edwin Petvin
Jessie Attwater
27 Dec 1891
Charlton-Mackrell, Somerset, England

Batch No: 104481-4


2.

Edwin Pet ...in
Birth date 1869
Age 23
Jessie Attwater
Birth date 1865
Age 27
Marriage date 20 Jan 1892
Marriage Place Chard, Somerset
Groom's Father Francis P..T..in
Bride's Father Thomas Chaffing Attwater

Batch No 102283-2



Could the first record be the BANNS and the second the actual marriage?


That suggestion fits with the freebmd record ..... if the marriage had taken place in December 1891, then the registration would show Dec quarter 1891

Marriages Mar 1892 (>99%)

Attwater Jessie Chard 5c 605
Petvin Edwin James Chard 5c 605


sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

MarkMorgan

MarkMorgan Report 24 Aug 2010 01:01

I have a couple that appear to get married twice in two different Somerset parishes a month apart? See these links; One is for Charlton Mackrell and the other for Chard.

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=fs:1473015&r=r_845567899&pn=p1

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=fs:1473015&r=r_845561231&pn=p1

The registration district for Charlton Mackrell is Langport. There is only a GRO index entry for Chard.

Has anyone seen this before? Why would this happen?

Thanks,
Mark.