Henbury St Thomas

[kevin4d]

 Baptisms were from 1845-1968
Burials were from 1845-1956
Marriages were from 1869 -1977.

Is there a logical reason why marriage records were from 1869,other than they are  lost.

[miriamkinga]

Perhaps it would be worth contacting the church and asking them Kevin - the website is here

http://www.stthomashenbury.org.uk/

[kevin4d]

thanks will try ringing later

[KGarrad]

Henbury cum Pexall became a civil parish in 1866.
St Thomas was built 1844-1845, and the chancel added in 1870.

Marriages had to be performed in a parish church, and St Thomas wasn't (strictly speaking) a parish church at the time. Or at least wasn't licenced to perform weddings?

Earlier marriages were probably performed at Prestbury ( St. Peter) or Gawsworth (St James)?

See: http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/henburycumpexall.html

[stanmapstone]

Henbury-cum-Pexall is a township and village, 2¼ miles west from Macclesfield, and in 1845 was formed into a parish out of the parish of Prestbury........The church of St. Thomas, erected in 1845........was consecrated in the same year......there is a memorial tablet to the Rev. Robert Francis James Shea M.A. for 38 years vicar of Henbury, d. 19 Aug 1888. Kelly's Directory of Cheshire, 1896


Stan

[stanmapstone]

If St. James was initially classed as a district chapel, then not all district chapels, or chapels of ease, were authorised to publish banns of marriage, or  solemnise or perform marriages. Parishioners would have to go to the Parish Church.

Stan