Jewish marriage record

[nlarkin1]

Hi, would anyone have any access to Jewish marriage records in London and be able to help me by any chance? I'm trying to find the marriage of Samuel Moses to Mary Ann Caroline McDermott in Jan-March 1891. Mary wasn't Jewish, but Samuel was, and there is no CoE record I can find. They both lived around the Whitechapel/Bethnal Green/Aldgate area. Mary's father Hugh died in her infancy, so it is possible she listed John Larkin (her mother's second husband) as her father.

Any help/pointers would be much appreciated. (I have the actual GRO index), but just trying to find the parish version. Thanks so much.

[Pennines]

There is the JewishGen site;

https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/marriages.htm

You may want to check it out. From memory (not always reliable) -- they may request a donation if you do use the site. Although you didn't have to pay for viewing each record viewed in the past.

It's some years since I had the need to use it (I was doing a family history for a brother in law with Jewish ancestors at the time).

[Bookbox]

Mary wasn't Jewish

As a non-Jew, Mary Ann Caroline McDermott would not have been able to marry in an orthodox Jewish religious ceremony.

Marriage Locator says (http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/):
GRO Index: 1891 quarter 1, volume 1c, page 518:
Sorry, we cannot locate the church for this marriage. The entry is located between entries for St Paul Dock Street (RD: Whitechapel) and Christ Church Watney Street (RD: St George in the East).

The record will therefore be at the end of the quarterly returns for the Whitechapel district, either nonconformist or register office, probably the latter, given the mixture of surnames on adjacent pages in the index. Those records are not online.

Unless anyone has uploaded the marriage certificate to their online family tree, you will probably need to purchase it from the GRO (£11.00).

[Bookbox]

https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/marriages.htm

You may want to check it out. From memory (not always reliable) -- they may request a donation if you do use the site.

Just for the record, there is no charge to use JewishGen. A donation gives access to a more sophisticated search interface, but it is a free site. The vast majority of researchers have full access to all its databases without paying anything.

[nlarkin1]

Ok. Thanks all. I'll give them a look, and possibly end up just buying the GRO certificate. I was kind of hoping that they did have an official Jewish wedding to add something extra to the family tree

[Josephine]

Bookbox is correct, unless Mary converted prior to their marriage.

The marriage record from the GRO will tell you where the marriage took place and, if it was in a place of worship, will also name the place & the officiant.

I have the GRO copy of a marriage record for a Jewish couple and it states the name of the synagogue and the rabbi who officiated. Unfortunately for me, the records for that particular synagogue at that particular time don't exist anymore, so I was out of luck.