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When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« on: Wednesday 17 November 04 15:37 GMT (UK) »
My great-great grandparents were married at Fulham Registry Office in 1884. Does anyone know when weddings in registry offices became legal and/or a comman way of getting married?

Paula
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Wolverhampton, Islington: Billingsley
Hammersmith, Manchester, Kent, Islington: Smith
Yorkshire: Hauxwell, Woodward, Butterfield
Darlington: Theakston
Essex: Harvey, Stock, Mead
Kent: Strong
Wokingham, Hammersmith: Thorpe
Oxfordshire: Rawlin(g)s, Johnson, Humphries, Curtis, Pope, Bossom, Simpson

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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 17:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi Paula,

Marriages in a Register Office were introduced at the same time as civil registration i.e. 1 Jul 1837.  It grew slowly in popularity but greater numbers used this option from 1837 in the far north of England, the south-west and Wales.

Hope that helps.

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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 17:18 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that. DO you know if the records (in general) still exist? And where they would be held? I can't track down the records for Fulham Registry Office.
Paula
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Wolverhampton, Islington: Billingsley
Hammersmith, Manchester, Kent, Islington: Smith
Yorkshire: Hauxwell, Woodward, Butterfield
Darlington: Theakston
Essex: Harvey, Stock, Mead
Kent: Strong
Wokingham, Hammersmith: Thorpe
Oxfordshire: Rawlin(g)s, Johnson, Humphries, Curtis, Pope, Bossom, Simpson

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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 17:34 GMT (UK) »
I would expect them to be with any others for the Fulham registration district.  Fulham was a sub-district of Kensington at one point, when are we talking about?  Copied this from the Genuki page:
Fulham
Created 1st April 1875 (out of Kensington district). In Middlesex until 1889.
Sub-districts : Fulham; Fulham North East; Fulham North West; Fulham South; Hammersmith; Hammersmith St. Peter; Hammersmith St. Paul; Hammersmith North; Hammersmith South.
GRO volumes : 1a (1875-1930).
Fulham, Hammersmith (1875-1913).
Registers now in Hammersmith & Fulham district.

The records are also included in the main GRO indexes.

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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 17:49 GMT (UK) »
I mean they aren't at the Fulham & Hammersmith Records Office or the London Met Archives...well not that i can find.

Paula
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Wolverhampton, Islington: Billingsley
Hammersmith, Manchester, Kent, Islington: Smith
Yorkshire: Hauxwell, Woodward, Butterfield
Darlington: Theakston
Essex: Harvey, Stock, Mead
Kent: Strong
Wokingham, Hammersmith: Thorpe
Oxfordshire: Rawlin(g)s, Johnson, Humphries, Curtis, Pope, Bossom, Simpson

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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 17:50 GMT (UK) »
I should have said, i want to look at the original records.

Paula
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Wolverhampton, Islington: Billingsley
Hammersmith, Manchester, Kent, Islington: Smith
Yorkshire: Hauxwell, Woodward, Butterfield
Darlington: Theakston
Essex: Harvey, Stock, Mead
Kent: Strong
Wokingham, Hammersmith: Thorpe
Oxfordshire: Rawlin(g)s, Johnson, Humphries, Curtis, Pope, Bossom, Simpson

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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 19:23 GMT (UK) »

My G-Grandparents were married 'by certificate' in a registry office in 1890.  I found them on the BMD, and ordered the certificate.  It arrived in western Canada less than a week after I ordered it!

Anna
Tharratt, Smith - London
Canham, Harvey, Ship - Suffolk
Higgins. Bowden, Ayres/Eyre - Buckingham
McDonald - Scotland, Africa, Canada, USA

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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 19:47 GMT (UK) »
Paula - you would not be allowed to examine the original registers. Any information they contain relative to a marriage is on the marriage certificate.
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: When did Registry Office weddings become allowed?
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 17 November 04 23:14 GMT (UK) »
The reason i asked was because i have previously found ancestors siblings (previously unknown to me) marrying on the same day as my direct ancestors by finding marriage certificates next to each other among the parish records. I now always try to check this in the records so was hoping to be able to see the registry office record book.

Paula
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Wolverhampton, Islington: Billingsley
Hammersmith, Manchester, Kent, Islington: Smith
Yorkshire: Hauxwell, Woodward, Butterfield
Darlington: Theakston
Essex: Harvey, Stock, Mead
Kent: Strong
Wokingham, Hammersmith: Thorpe
Oxfordshire: Rawlin(g)s, Johnson, Humphries, Curtis, Pope, Bossom, Simpson