Skipton Marriages

[dobfarm]

Hi

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/WRY/Skipton.html


Considering the year 1944!! the marriage is most likely a register office as most war WW2 time rush job marriages were ? and one of the party being from abroad they would need a special marriage licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury to marry in a church in England

Skipton parish registers are held in Northallerton (North Yorkshire County Record Office) and only go up to 1893 and later registers are held at the Skipton church archives for post 1893 for C o E Anglican

Also there are nonconformist chapels to consider and a possibility polish church records (Maybe)

Don't think anyone will go to the trouble with their own expense and time needed to root out this info on the slim chance it not a Ref office wedding? when a marriage certificate can be obtained for £9 -well equal to travel costs and eating out etc if all day searching by a member of Rootchat or other ancestry websites!.. (Does not take much logic to work out their thinking )Hence why most post 1837 BMD's thread post request don't get answered. Pre 1837 parish look ups request do get taken up by a few members as reason there is no GRO info or alternative to parish registers.


It sounds hard talk!! but true.

You could try the North Yorkshire board

Regards Dave

[Just Kia]

I wasn't expecting anyone to go travelling out of their way, to spend all day looking or such. That is why I asked "if anyone has access to the parish registers". I know quite a few people have such registers on disk for various places.

Humbug has some and very kindly looked - which was very much appreciated.

Oh to have that £9 just laying around to just order the cert - I'd do it in a jiffy.

Yes, there are other things to consider such as non-conformist and the like but at the end of the day most RC people are very willing to help if they happen to have access to various records and if one doesn't ask how would those kind people know how to bother looking?
Some one may just have happened across something online that I missed. Again with my asking how would they know to pass the link onto me?
I know a good number of sites to look at and I know how to use a search engine efficiently, but many RC'ers have knowledge of sites that I simply never find. One only has to look at the Scavenger Hunt threads to see the vast resources that various RC'ers have access to that would otherwise be unavailable to many.

I could understand your post if I had been complaining about not getting THE answer, but I wasn't. Hard talk is one thing but your post just came across plain rude in reality.

To finish on a pleasant note I extend many thanks to you for the information on where the registers are kept (Northallerton), and for the info that it may be a register office marriage, although I couldn't say that it was a "rush job", and thank you also for the information that that they would have required a special license by the Archbishop of Canterbury to marry in a church.
That is all very appreciated and worth knowing.

Happy Holiday Season

[dobfarm]

Hello

http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/

Nonconformist BMD's website mostly only go upto Dec 1837  but odd ones do go higher about 1860 otherwise you need to visit Kew Richmond London 'National archives'.

Skipton Christ Church Parish Records (1838 - 1963)

Prepared by Derek Wrathall, using transcriptions by researcher Josie Walsh held on CD at Skipton Library.

http://www.rawbw.com/~wrathall/parish.html

Skipton Library may do a free lookup and give the info verbel or you send a SAE with cheque for copy cost of the event if found

You could write to the Skipton parish church verger/churchwarden about access to the original 1944 parish register info but may incur a cost.



http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5652

In WW2 it was very common for rush job register office marriages were encounter post D Day pre embarkation for allied troops going to fight in Germany occupied Europe but other reason as well.

You asked about people having access to Skipton parish registers and in most cases that mean traveling to Archives or Libraries. Transcribed CD/Booklet info is not the register info which you asked for and do not always give full also exact information IE witnesses. type of marriage - Banns-Licence by bond allegation or special Archbishop licence.

You can always report to the moderator but finding info does incur cost and is the reason parish register info look ups at archive/ library look ups request go un-answered

Merry Xmas

[Phodgetts]

What has the outcome of this post been? Just came across it a few minutes ago.

P

[dobfarm]

Seems too have dried up Philip like many do! but  Skipton is North Yorkshire not West Yorkshire so maybe duplicate on there in another word format thread on North York's board?

regards

Dave

[Just Kia]

No, not dried up at all.
I can not post if I have nothing to add, as per the board rules.
As per reply 2 in this thread - the link given says that Skipton is West Riding. I do not have local knowledge to correct that so if the map provided is wrong, 'tis not my fault.

As per reply 10 of this thread I do not have £9 to go ordering certs. I do not wish anyone to do that either. The FH was begun as a Wedding gift for some very close friends. They have now been married for a grand total of 3 weeks. Once things settle down they may well wish to purchase said cert for themselves - that is if the bride's mother isn't able to turn up the original.

As for there being a duplicate post... No, there isn't. 1) because the map provided by Ticker, in the link in reply 2 shows Skipton as being in West Riding. 2) if there was, as per board rules, I'd have linked them and locked one, so that people kind enough to look through their cd's or those who may be visiting local archives already and who may have a few extra moments to have a quick look, wouldn't end up duplicating research.
I'm sorry, Dave, but I really don't understand the need for the sarcasm.
You've pretty much told me off for posting in the first place. I defended myself in reply 10 but I don't see that I should have to do so again.

So, I'm going to call this thread completed.