Hi Helen
Is it possible they were 'in service'? (working for the gentry...)
They would have met their partners and got married there, but then had
to go back home as a lot of big houses did not support servants and
their partners.
You can always look on the census after 1841 to see if
I can confirm the likelihood of this as it is just
what happened to my maternal grandmother's parents.
Hazel Smith (in Oude Wetering, Holland)
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Hi Helen
Is it possible they were 'in service'? (working for
the gentry...)
They would have met their
We were married by Archbishop's license - it's a fun document! You needed one
to be married in an Oxford college chapel - Merton, in our case
Sue
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Hello Helen
From one family, 30+ is a *LOT* of couples to choose to marry in
London. I have just one instance where the groom from Kent married in
London, but his bride was from Hampshire so I only assume that they
went to the capital in search of work. He, like his father before him,
was
Hi Sue
Yes, I think that marriage in a college chapel is the usual reason for
obtaining an Archbishop's licence, though what a lot of people refer to
as a special licence is in fact an ordinary (bishop's or
Superintendent Registrar's) licence.
Brenda
On 20 Jan 2008, at 23:20, Sue Babbs
As the list is quiet at the moment, I will take the opportunity to pick the
brains of all you genealogy experts and historians!
I have a lot of family members on my tree who were born in the 1800s in
villages around Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, etc. These are
simple, country
