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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,584 Send Message	Louise2212	Report	29 Mar 2005 11:38
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,584 Send Message	when did people start geting married in them? as opposed to church
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 3,439 Send Message	Geoff	Report	29 Mar 2005 11:41
	1837 I think.
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 3,439 Send Message	Geoff	Report	29 Mar 2005 11:50
	Marriages From 1837, marriages could take place in a local register office, instead of a church. A new type of marriage register was introduced for all marriage ceremonies. The Church of England, Jews and Quakers could conduct and register their own marriage ceremonies. Other denominations (Methodists, Baptists, Unitarians etc) had to apply for their chapels to be licensed to conduct marriages and could only conduct a ceremony there if a Registrar was also present, in addition to the minister, to record the events in a Register Office marriage register. This did not change till 1898.