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Offline BucksExile

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Registrar Attended
« on: Saturday 14 September 13 11:13 BST (UK) »
Hi all,
  I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this post, so apologies.
 I've located a marriage for a relative in 1935 on Lancs BMD.
 It  doesn't state the church, but says Prestwich Registrar Attended.
 Can anyone explain what this term means please?
Is it a marriage in a RO or somewhere else?

Thank you
Cheetham - Middleton, Oldham
Aldred - Manchester
Butterworth - Middleton
Stanhope - Manchester, Derbyshire

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Re: Registrar Attended
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 14 September 13 11:19 BST (UK) »
It probably says "Register Office or Registrar Attended"?

So either the marriage took place at the Register Office, or it took place in a non-Church of England church or chapel.

Possibly Catholic or Methodist?
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Re: Registrar Attended
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 14 September 13 13:31 BST (UK) »
A copy of the marriage certificate will state where the marriage took place.
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Re: Registrar Attended
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 14 September 13 14:48 BST (UK) »
Ta for that. I'm getting the MCert soon. I was just wondering if the marriage was an RO. A catholic marriage sounds plausible. So the marriage could still have been in a church.

Ta everyone
Cheetham - Middleton, Oldham
Aldred - Manchester
Butterworth - Middleton
Stanhope - Manchester, Derbyshire

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« Reply #4 on: Saturday 14 September 13 14:53 BST (UK) »
After the 1898 Act (Marriage; Nonconformist Places of Worship),  a marriage could be by a person duly authorised under the Act. Under this Act Roman Catholics and Nonconformists were not required to have a civil Registrar present.
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