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Civil Marriages
Between OH snoring and me being quite ill I could not lie down without coughing last night and so decided to put my time to good use.
About 2am I had a look at an ancestry hint and found a likely marriage for my 4greats uncle in 1855. He, however, seems to share my painful 3g grandmothers annoyingness and he had a civil marriage according to Staffordshire BMD. Correct me if I am wrong, this means there was no church wedding and therefore no parish register entry doesn't it? Is there any other way of finding out any details without ordering the certificate? He's not that important to me at this time that I want to spend the money.
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Civil wedding means Register Office wedding so the only way to find the details is to buy the cert. annoying isn’t it. Staffs BMD will tell you which register office it was and where those records are now held or of course you could still use the GRO.
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Sometimes you can be lucky and find that someone has attached an image of the marriage certificate to their public tree.
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I don't know about Staffordshire bmd, but on the Lancsbmd site, the wording is
"Register office or Registrar attended" which doesn't always mean a registry office wedding, it can sometimes mean a marriage in a place of worship which was not authorised to perform marriages. This concerns quite a few of my nonconformist relatives and there is actually a record in the church or chapel. OC |
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Staffordshire BMD indexes say "Civil Marriage" to cover most non-conformist weddings as well as those which took place in a register office. This s what it says on their website:
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So, from their index you can't tell if the marriage was in a non-conformist church or chapel, some of which of course have online images and/or online transcriptions, or in a register office. I think it's a bit of a generalisation to say the part above about "after 1898", as that suggests all non-con churches celebrated their own marriages etc from that date, but I've been to a registrar attended marriage and I'm not that old!! lol
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I use Staffs BMD a lot, being in Staffordshire. If it’s a register office it says which one, like Burton R/O
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With a lot of weddings now not being in church or register office then they are registrar attended if they are licensed to perform weddings. My daughter married in a local woodland setting licensed to hold weddings. The local registrar performed the ceremony
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Marg
That's really handy. On lancsbmd there's no way of knowing where the civil marriage was performed, only which local RO issued the certificate. I wonder why the various ukbmd sites vary with the amount of info they give? OC |
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You might strike lucky with a newspaper announcement.
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In the past I have done both parish register and census transcriptions. What was required varied enormously.
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