Marriage certificates

[Sallyann17]

Can anyone help me? When did marriage certificates start being issued, and when did they start including the names of the parents?

[CaroleW]

Which country?

English & Welsh certs started on 1.7.1837 and from then until now they only show fathers names/occupations

[Sallyann17]

England, I have got back to 1750 and the only way I am gpoint to be able to get the correct patents of my married ancestors is through marraige certificates, but I don't know if it is worth persuing if they either don't exist or they have very limited information.

[stanmapstone]

Some types of marriage certificate were issued before the introduction of civil registration in 1837 see http://anguline.co.uk/cert/marriage.html

Stan

[iluleah]

To add to Carole's England/Wales answer Scotland on 1st January 1855 and Ireland the earliest one were 1845 ( protestant) or I should say non catholic and RC was 1 January 1864

Fathers names on marriage cert

[stanmapstone]

The only source will be parish registers. Under Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753, the information recorded in the register is the Parish, County, and year. the names of the bride and groom, the parishes they were from, the name of the Church, whether the marriage was by banns or licence, the consent of the parents if either of the couple were under the age of 21, the date of the marriage, the signature of the minister, the signatures of the couple and the signatures of the witnesses. Parents and Occupations are not shown.
Stan

[iluleah]

England, I have got back to 1750 and the only way I am gpoint to be able to get the correct patents of my married ancestors is through marraige certificates, but I don't know if it is worth persuing if they either don't exist or they have very limited information.

Oh you are talking about parish recorded marriages.

From 25th March 1754 until the introduction of Civil Registration from 1st July 1837, a legally valid marriage had to be in a C of E church, except for Quakers and Jews

You will not find fathers name on marriage records certainly pre 1800 ( unless the vicar decided to write them on) some places are better than others, some wrote lots of information, others less than they were required to do

[JenB]

The only source will be parish registers. Under Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753, the information recorded in the register is the Parish, County, and year. the names of the bride and groom, the parishes they were from, the name of the Church, whether the marriage was by banns or licence, the consent of the parents if either of the couple were under the age of 21, the date of the marriage, the signature of the minister, the signatures of the couple and the signatures of the witnesses. Parents and Occupations are not shown.
Stan

Very occasionally occupations are shown 

Here's a nice example from 1815: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11869-35759-9?cc=1309819&wc=M6KG-8TG:13618101,20024301,20024302