Marriage Allegations, Bonds & Licences

[BG1956]

Hi 12tootsi34.

I've had a response from Lambeth Palace and the Faculty Office Marriage Bonds for the period January 1695 to November 1698 are all missing from their records! Just my luck as the date I was interested in was July 1696. All through my researches though I have often been stone walled by records being missing, lost in the Great Fire or destroyed by "enemy air action" so I really should be used to disappointments like this by now.

Thanks for the tip though. Knowing what the Palace does have may be useful in future.

[arthurk]

I've had a response from Lambeth Palace and the Faculty Office Marriage Bonds for the period January 1695 to November 1698 are all missing from their records! Just my luck as the date I was interested in was July 1696.

It makes you wonder how Boyd got hold of them - but at least he did.

It set me wondering a bit about what other ways there might be to find out about marriage licences. One useful page I found was at FamilySearch:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Marriage_Allegations,_Bonds_and_Licences_in_England_and_Wales

This pointed me to a printed index to the Faculty Office licences, at the Internet Archive. This link takes you to the one you've been looking for - left hand column, 14 July:

https://archive.org/details/calendarofmarria33chur/page/138/mode/2up

It might not add much to what you've already discovered, but the links might help you or someone else in the future.

[BG1956]

Very useful. Interesting that Boyd uses the original Norman spelling of Jane's name with two Ts -  Attcliffe (atte-Cliffe). I hadn't seen it spelled this way before and reinforces what Forebears suggest, that the name is predominently found in France.

Thanks Arthurk.