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Title: Marriage at St Margaret's, Westminster - is this significant?
Post by: SandraC on Tuesday 03 January 23 15:17 GMT (UK)

Hi

My 3xGgrandparents married 26 June 1841 at St Margaret's, Westminster. I've had the certificate for years & was just beetling about on Ancestry when I realised that this is the church next to the Abbey & by the Houses of Parliament.

Did it operate as a standard Parish Church in the 1840's or is there any significance to be drawn from this location?  The husband was a servant, living on Charles Street & the wife had come up from Ash next Ridley in Kent & was living on Great George Street. I think they knew each other from Kent originally.

Thanks for reading
SandraC

Title: Re: Marriage at St Margaret's, Westminster - is this significant?
Post by: Bookbox on Tuesday 03 January 23 16:43 GMT (UK)

Up until 1840, St Margaret Westminster shared the ‘Royal Peculiar’ status enjoyed by Westminster Abbey and was outside the authority of the Diocese of London. But it always served as the local church for residents of Westminster (as well as for the House of Commons), and many different classes of people from different walks of life were baptised, married and buried there.
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/st-margarets-church/our-history