do you know if there any way to see if parents or witnesses or addresses are recorded?
- or anything else at all?
Hi Lesley
The FreeREG entries for marriages from the St Mary's Chapel in Walcot are copied from an earlier transcript kept at Bath RO. The original record will have had the signatures of two witnesses for each event but these were not included in the transcript and so are not on FreeREG at present. Parents were hardly ever included in marriage registers at that time and addresses were normally limited to the parish of residence. Anything out of the ordinary would usually have been included in the old transcript and so be on FreeREG. Almost certainly, the only useful data missing from the FreeREG entry is the names of the witnesses.
We hope eventually to redo our files of this nature and add the missing details, but at the moment priority goes to registers where we have no coverage at all so it may be some time before we have your witnesses. I believe the Bath RO, or the SHC, will send you a photocopy of the entry for a small fee. Be aware that the witnesses are not always relatives of the couple. They can be friends or even just parish officals. Also there is only the signatures and those can pretty hard to decipher.
David Hartley
FreeREG area assistant for Bath
