Parish Registers

[jillruss]

There's a birth entry for an Ann Elizabeth Simmonds on Free BMD -

Reading Reg District  Vol. 2c Page 326  Sept Quarter 1858

which could be her. Might it be worth sending for the birth certificate?

 I have the PRs for Reading St Lawrence & Caversham St Peter and there's no sign of a baptism for her at either of them.

Jill

[stonechat]

You can also try your luck on Berkshire BMD
http://www.berkshirebmd.org.uk/

[copperman72]

These are also available on CD from Wilts FHS. They are the bonds/allegations held in the WSRO, I would be surprised if the BRO don't have a load of them (to be honest I have never had the need to check their holding).

The Berks RO has a card index to the marriage licence bonds/allegations for the Archdeaconry of Berkshire. However, the originals were destroyed when a local Reading solicitors' office was bombed in WWII.

What information can I expect to discover by viewing this document, other than the brides and grooms names (which I already know)for a marriage that took place in St.Nicolas Parish Church, Newbury in 1757.

I have already checked Sarum MLs at W&SRO, and it seems that the Archdeacon 'forgot' to send them to the Bishop.


Thanks,
Andy

[newburychap]

These are also available on CD from Wilts FHS. They are the bonds/allegations held in the WSRO, I would be surprised if the BRO don't have a load of them (to be honest I have never had the need to check their holding).

The Berks RO has a card index to the marriage licence bonds/allegations for the Archdeaconry of Berkshire. However, the originals were destroyed when a local Reading solicitors' office was bombed in WWII.

What information can I expect to discover by viewing this document, other than the brides and grooms names (which I already know)for a marriage that took place in St.Nicolas Parish Church, Newbury in 1757.

I have already checked Sarum MLs at W&SRO, and it seems that the Archdeacon 'forgot' to send them to the Bishop.

I'm not sure what the index includes - the only additional info on a bond would be the ages of the happy couple (usually  not precise unless under 21) and the names of the bondsmen (often relatives).

The Archdeacon did not forget to send anything - he simply filed them.  Marriage bonds, like wills, were handled by several levels of the church hierachy - in Berkshire you could get a licence from the Bishop, the Dean (these two covered by the WHFS index), the Archdeacon or a surrogate (local rectors/vicars who were empowered to issue licences). There may well have been others in Peculiars and Liberties.  They did not all go to the Bishop for filing.

[copperman72]

Thank you newburychap, I knew i'd get a concise answer from you, i'm relatively new to marriage license bonds/allegations research, to be honest this is my first ancestor I am attempting to research using MLs.

I thought that it was the Archdeacons' duty to send the bonds/allegations to the Bishop/Dean.....as I stated, it's all new to me.

Is it only BRO that holds the card index, and would it by any chance inform us of the couples' abodes ?.

Is this index card a C19 transcript from the Archdeacons originals that were destroyed during WWII ?.

You've been a great help, the fog is beginning to lift,
Andy

 

[stonechat]

The BRO card index is only there

E.g. I had a marriage in Clewer

It was clear from Clewer PRs that neither was from Clewer

The index told me one was from New Windsor , the other from Warfield.

[copperman72]

Thanks stonechat, i'm starting to get excited now.

The marriage i'm researching took place in 1757, is this about the same time as the Clewer marriage you researched?, the reason I ask is that if it isn't then maybe the abodes of both parties probably won't be stated in my case.

Would I be correct in thinking that it could be possible for one parish to state the abodes and another not to, or are the abodes always stated in your experience.

[newburychap]

The marriage i'm researching took place in 1757

What names are you looking for - I may be in the BRO in a couple of hours and could do a car index lookup while I wait for the documents I want to see to be brought out of store.

[copperman72]

The marriage i'm researching took place in 1757

What names are you looking for - I may be in the BRO in a couple of hours and could do a car index lookup while I wait for the documents I want to see to be brought out of store.

Hey very much appreciated newburychap the marriage took place at St.Nicolas Parish Church,Newbury between William Moulding/Moulden/Maulden/Molden and Mary Shaw on 08/Nov/1757, and I hope you find an entry somewhere in the three preceeding months.......their first child was baptised 1/June/1758, so you probably wouldn't need to search back that far which would probably explain the need for the quick marriage.
Thanks again, I was there all day Thursday last week and I ran out of time it's a 5 hour round trip drive for me so you don't realise how helpfull you're being.