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Marriage Certificate
The Information shown in each Certified COPY as
issued by the General Register Office (1837 onwards applies) of a FULL
(Long) Marriage certificate is as follows:
Where marriage was solemnized (parish church name, town,
County)
1. When married
2. Name and surname of both groom and bride
3. Ages
4. Condition (bachelor, spinster, widow, widower
etc)
5. Rank or profession
6. The residence of both parties at the time of
marriage
7. Fathers' names and surnames
8. Occupation of Fathers
9. Witnesses to the marriage (normally two or more)
10. If married by Banns or Licence
11. Signatures of Groom and Bride
12. Signature of Curate performing the marriage
Please note that such certificates issued are copied
from the original source by a clerk of the GRO and as such the signatures
are not the genuine signatures of your ancestors.
Example of an ORIGINAL Marriage certificate as
issued to the couple at the time they married in 1900.
(104 years old this year, 2004)
Online Index to the Registration of Births,
Marriages and Deaths
Since 1837 any Births, marriages and deaths, had to be
registered with a local Registrar who issued a certificate relating to
that event. Copies of these events were sent to the National Registrar's
Office and a national Index was produced. Scanned pages of these
Indices are now available online to search and download (save to your own
computer) for a small charge of 55 pages for about £5. uk pounds.
Consult the registration
of Births, Marriages and Deaths Index 1837-2002.
To learn more about Parish MARRIAGE
Records and what this means to your research please read:
What's in a Marriage Record
To learn more about Parish BURIAL
Records and what this means to your research please read:
What's in A Burial Record
To learn more about the history of Parish Church
Records and what this means to your research please read
The History of Parish Church Records
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