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Re: Help needed in deciphering old wedding record handwriting
« Reply #9 on: Monday 23 December 24 18:02 GMT (UK) »
Some background to the Benfieldside Meeting is here ...
https://cameofamilyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Annexes.pdf

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Re: Help needed in deciphering old wedding record handwriting
« Reply #10 on: Monday 23 December 24 19:01 GMT (UK) »
Bookbox

Fascinating! Thanks for the link

Steve
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Re: Help needed in deciphering old wedding record handwriting
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 02:45 GMT (UK) »
I have tidied up the text from the Ancestry image:


...haveing Intention of Mariage According to the [ordinance?]

of god and gods Joyneing they did lay it before the mens and womens

Meetings before whom theire mariage being propounded then they

Meettings desireings them to waite a time and soe they makeing enquire betwixt

the time whether the man is free from any other woman & she free from any other

man soe A second time they comeing before the mens and womens meetings all

things being found Cleare, a metting of the people of god was Apointed

in the house of J C: where they tooke one Another in the p(re)sence of god and

in the presence of his people the 23d day of the 3d month [&? G?]:

According to the Law of god and the practice of the holy men of god in the

Scriptures of truth promiseing to live faithfully together man & wife

as long as they lived to which they both seet theire names [&?] we are

wittnesses of the Same; whose names are hereto Subscribed the day and

yeare aforesaide



The witness surnames in order and omitting duplicates are:

Orsbey, Hopper, [Brantingim?], Lighton, [Wheatlah or Wheatlak], Hunter, Browne, Mallum, [March or Marck]

(Lighton is Cuthbert.)

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Re: Help needed in deciphering old wedding record handwriting
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 10:27 GMT (UK) »
horselydown86

Brilliant! Thanks for your persistence and accurate deciphering of this script.
It's clearly the Quaker oath, with reference to the marriage banns being called prior to the wedding.

Save for one anomaly, which I'm working on, Richard Snowball is my 8th paternal great grandfather. I've tried to get some background context to all of the ancestors in my family tree (rather than a mere collection of dates) so it's been a most useful exercise and finding early Quaker roots is interesting.
Much appreciated and Happy Christmas.  :)

Steve
Snowball, Smart, Timms, Lawrence