What do you know of marriage law?

[mazi]

Some questions are matters of fact, but ,for others the answer depends on who is studying which data, I would suggest that many of you who have posted are more knowledgable and have more experience of interpreting birth and marriage certs than most, especially the difficult entries.

I'm not included in the many


mike

[lizdb]

8 / 15

(What's the pass mark? !   Shall we say 50%, then all of us with 8 can say we've passed!)

[croxia]

Pleased to say I scored 10/15!!

Croxia

[eadaoin]

just some lucky guesses.

I got 9/15 .. as a foreigner, I guessed about three-quarters of them!

eadaoin

[rancegal]

  I only got 5/15        Back to school!  Very interesting, though, and good for straightening out misapprehensions

[Jane Masri]

I got 8/15 which seems to be about average  but more importantly I LEARNT something    Any more like this Graham?

Jane

[Guy Etchells]

I got two wrong however I disagree with one
Comparing an ancestor’s marriage certificate to his baptism certificate and to a census entry from immediately before the wedding, you discover that he used a completely different first name when he married. Was the marriage…

In England and Wales a person's name is the name they decide to be known as.
If a person changed their name between baptism or even the census schedule (which could have been filled in by someone who did not know what name he or she wished to be known as) and the marriage then the marriage was valid.

The question is clearly wrong.

It should have been
"If a person used a false name on marriage..."
Cheers
Guy

[Maggie1895]

Graham, thank you for posting this, it's really interesting.

I got 10/15 and reckon that was lucky because I gave most of my answers on the balance of probabilities and some gut feelings, not because I knew anything for certain.     

I've printed the answers with my scores and am going to keep it as a useful reference source.     Thanks again

[davidft]

I got two wrong however I disagree with one
Comparing an ancestor’s marriage certificate to his baptism certificate and to a census entry from immediately before the wedding, you discover that he used a completely different first name when he married. Was the marriage…

In England and Wales a person's name is the name they decide to be known as.
If a person changed their name between baptism or even the census schedule (which could have been filled in by someone who did not know what name he or she wished to be known as) and the marriage then the marriage was valid.

The question is clearly wrong.

It should have been
"If a person used a false name on marriage..."
Cheers
Guy

If you disagree strongly you could always contact the author Rebecca Probert
whose quiz it actually is.


Rebecca Probert has just published "Marriage Law for Genealogists: The Definitive Guide...what everyone tracing their family history needs to know about where, when, who and how their English and Welsh ancestors married" after much research

You can find her contact details in the link given in the first post on this thread