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Registry Offices
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fifi | Report | 25 Jun 2009 18:53 |
Can anyone please tell me when Registry Offices first started being used. I have a marriage certificate for 1886 for two people who were of Irish Catholic decent. It seemed strange given that the rest of the family were staunch catholics. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 25 Jun 2009 19:02 |
Register Offices were introduced in 1837, at the same time as compulsory registration. |
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fifi | Report | 25 Jun 2009 19:04 |
Thank you. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 25 Jun 2009 19:06 |
Not sure of the date when this changed, but untill fairly recently in genealogical terms, Catholics were not allowed to perfom legal marriages, so marriages had to take place either before the Registrar, or the C of E Vicar as well as the ceremony in the Catholic church. |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 26 Jun 2009 04:27 |
From the start of civil registration in 1837 up until 1898, it was a requirement for the registrar to be present at all Roman Catholic and Non-conformist marriages in England & Wales, with the exception of Jews & Quakers. The registrar kept his own register which was additional to the church register. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 26 Jun 2009 11:59 |
Well I married in 1957 in the Catholic Church and the priest then still weren't authorized to carry out legal marriages , |
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