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Marriage Certificate Advice please

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Dawnydeedee

Dawnydeedee Report 4 Nov 2006 14:19

Thanks everyone for that, just need to try and find them on the census now! Dawn

Pat

Pat Report 4 Nov 2006 13:47

Hi Dawn It says a similar thing on my parents MC. Sometimes when one of the parties was under the age of consent they had to have the consent of a parent/guardian to marry and a Certificate/Licence was produced and so were not married by the 'rites of......' ie banns being read. Pat

Jennifer

Jennifer Report 4 Nov 2006 12:07

You will also find marriages by certificate if the tmarriage took place in Non-conformist Churches, for these, and Register Office marriages the propsed marriage is advertised at the Register Office for three weeks in place of the publishing of Banns as would have happened in the C of E Churches. Marriages by Licence being the exception. Jennifer

Dawnydeedee

Dawnydeedee Report 4 Nov 2006 10:39

Marie - According to certificate they both lived on the same street in the parish they married in, so no romantic eloping there! Georgina - thanks, that was what I suspected

Georgina

Georgina Report 4 Nov 2006 10:31

Dawn on a marriage certificate the words ''according to the rites and ceremonies of the'' is usually followed by the name of the church, so if they married in the registry office by certificate that is why those details have been crossed out. Georgina.

Marie

Marie Report 4 Nov 2006 10:17

dear dawn I know in my case the happy couple had gone elsewhere to get married-away from violent father I think-I only found the marriage by default.A member was helping me and found the marriage under Ashton,I was looking Aston.This was a lucky coincidence and turned out to be correct.Maybe your rellies ran away as well.marie

Dawnydeedee

Dawnydeedee Report 4 Nov 2006 10:11

Thanks Marie. Suppose I was hoping there was something different - makes it more interesting! Dawn

Marie

Marie Report 4 Nov 2006 10:03

I have a cert.like that for my aunt in 1926.I also did not realise they had registry offices then as it is also my first.Never thought anything of it till now.As they both say the same I would presume it is standard and only made one sort of cert.and adapted it for this sort of ceremony-marie mine says by licence not by certificate

Dawnydeedee

Dawnydeedee Report 4 Nov 2006 09:58

I have just received a long awaited marriage certificate for my great granparents and wondered if anyone could help. I have not had a register office marriage certificate before, so don't know if this is standard. On the certificate it says 'married in the register office' then the 'according to the rites and ceromonies of the' has been crossed out and 'by certificate' wriiten in. The marriage was in 1900. Does anyone know if this is standard wording for a register office ceremony certificate or does this mean they had some sort of special liscence? Hope this makes sense to someone! Thanks Dawn