IGI Marriage - where?

[Mean_genie]

They weren't all dodgy (although please feel free to think the worst of your rellies if you want to!), but they were quick, cheap and convenient. Ironically, the records often give more detail than you get in ordinary parish church marriages - specifically, the groom's occupation.

The whole series of Fleet Registers in RG7 at TNA is currently being digitized and indexed by BMDregisters, but so far they haven't announced a likely release date. Frankly, I'm not surprised because this is a very difficult series to deal with, with many duplicated entries, and at least one register that has been proved to be a forgery. Apart from that, some of the films are unreadable so they will have to re-scan the originals.

Mean_genie

[Mean_genie]

Jill

Your batch (I011617) covers the years 1721-1740, and contains a few baptisms as well as the marriages. The only Fleet Register covering exactly this period and also including baptisms is RG7/60, so that may be the one. If I get a chance I will check it for you.

Mean_genie

[jillruss]

That would be much appreciated, Mean_genie. Will keep my digits crossed - especially if, as you suggested, it could give more info than normally. 

Jill

[Mean_genie]

Jill

It's not RG7/60.

The batch may have been taken from one of the notebooks in the series (which duplicate many of the entries in the Registers), or more likely a collection of them, since there are over 2000 marriages in the batch. It's a really difficult series to make sense of, with all the duplications. Fascinating, but incredibly frustrating!

When BMDregisters finally get them online it will be possible at last to get some idea of the scale of the duplication - no one really knows how many marrriages are actually contained in the series because of this, and it's not even possible to make an educated guess.

One day...

Mean_genie

[jillruss]

Thanks for trying, Mean_genie.

I keep going back to the BMD registers site to see if the Quaker records are available yet - but still, 'coming soon'! Will now add the Fleet records to my list.

They tell me patience is a virtue, so I am about to be very virtuous!!   

Everything comes to she who waits..... 

Thanks again,
Jill

[Sundridge]

Why don't you email LDS and ask them for the source of the batch? In my experience they normally reply to such queries within 48 hours.

[JAP]

Hi Sundridge, That's a very sensible suggestion of yours.  However 
Many of us have done exactly that but the answers from the LDS have, as far as I'm aware, not been the slightest help at all.

Here's a thread which gives a flavour of the sort of 'response' one might expect:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic=248384

Regards,

JAP

[jillruss]

I've had a go and emailed LDS so will wait to see what the answer is. I'm sort of thinking that, if they had any source info they would have included it in the first place, but let's wait and see what they say. 

Jill

[Mean_genie]

For what it's worth, here are some of the IGI batches that I have been able to tie up with identifiable Fleet Registers in The National Archives series RG7:

I025702   
RG7/36   Marriages   1715-1717
RG7/37   Marriages & baptisms1715-1728
RG7/38   Marriages   1715-1728

I031177   
RG7/153   Marriages   1735-1746

M140054   
RG7/102   Marriages   1729-1735
RG7/103   Marriages 1729-1743
RG7/104   Marriages   1729-1732

M140055   
RG7/107   Marriages   1730-1735
RG7/108   Marriages   1730-1731
RG7/109   Marriages   1730-1733
RG7/110   Marriages   1731-1731

M140058   
RG7/121   Marriages   1732-1740
RG7/122   Marriages   1733-1754
RG7/123   Marriages   1733-1737
RG7/124   Marriages   1733-1735
RG7/125   Marriages   1733-1733
RG7/126   Marriages   1733-1734
RG7/127   Marriages   1733-1735

There are several other batches that I have identified as containing Fleet Register entries, but I have not been able to pinpoint them.

Mean_genie