Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Marriage at St Margaret's, Westminster - is this significant?  (Read 1358 times)

Offline SandraC

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 2,258
  • Isabella Annie with Brenda
    • View Profile
Marriage at St Margaret's, Westminster - is this significant?
« on: Tuesday 03 January 23 15:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi

My 3xGgrandparents married 26 June 1841 at St Margaret's, Westminster. I've had the certificate for years & was just beetling about on Ancestry when I realised that this is the church next to the Abbey & by the Houses of Parliament.

Did it operate as a standard Parish Church in the 1840's or is there any significance to be drawn from this location?  The husband was a servant, living on Charles Street & the wife had come up from Ash next Ridley in Kent & was living on Great George Street. I think they knew each other from Kent originally.

Thanks for reading
SandraC
Researching Clark, Holt, Threlfall, Platt, Walker, Bowers, Culshaw in Manchester, Salford, Ormskirk & Southport.
Also, Craggs, Hamer, Sampson, Hesketh, McNamara, Hodson.

All Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline Bookbox

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 8,335
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Marriage at St Margaret's, Westminster - is this significant?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 January 23 16:43 GMT (UK) »
Up until 1840, St Margaret Westminster shared the ‘Royal Peculiar’ status enjoyed by Westminster Abbey and was outside the authority of the Diocese of London. But it always served as the local church for residents of Westminster (as well as for the House of Commons), and many different classes of people from different walks of life were baptised, married and buried there.
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/st-margarets-church/our-history
Pages: [1]