Ancestors married twice?

[M_ONeill]

Hey all,

I’ve just run across a record in the Irish Catholic Parish Registers showing my 2x great grandparents getting married on the 30th of July 1866. This is all well and good, but I have a previously found record showing the couple getting married at the registry office some five days prior!

Why would a couple get married twice in such a short space of time? I had considered that maybe the catholic registry entry was simply a recording of the first marriage, but the given witnesses are different for both ceremonies.

Anyone have any thoughts?

[hallmark]

My thought are...

Why not post a Link to great grandparents getting married on the 30th of July 1866?

Why not post a Link to great grandparents  getting married at the registry office some five days prior?




 

[KGarrad]

Belgian friends of mine had to "go up before the mayor" (i.e. Civil Marriage) before getting married in church.

Perhaps something similar was happening here?

[M_ONeill]

This is the registry office marriage. Note the transcription on the website says ‘25th September’ 1886. That part of the record is fairly faded, but I’m pretty sure I can make out ‘July’ next to the year.

This is the catholic parish registry record. Both records are the right parish/area, the right names and the right time.

K Garrad, a good thought, but I don’t think that was the case in Northern Ireland. All marriages had to be registered to the civil authority, but most of the marriages registered were still done by the churches/chapels of the varying denominations.

[hallmark]

Don't have Anc sub to look via Link


https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0204 are the Church registers

Which couple  is being referred to as getting Married ?

[hallmark]

As they are in the 4th quarter Book the Registrar would have Registered the Reg Office marriage on day of event.

[M_ONeill]

It’s definitely my 2x great grandparents James Bell and Eliza Lamont. Their names are next to the listing number in the margins and also have a tick by them.

The two witnesses in the catholic register are Adam Ward and Mary Jane Kelly.

Edit: Ah, good find... so their registry office marriage happened some time after the Catholic marriage...

[Kiltaglassan]

See
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=707755.0

KG

[hallmark]

Ahhhh...was thinking the same thing as Aghadowey thought on other thread!!