Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Understanding marriage certificates

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Salimali

Salimali Report 13 Apr 2011 19:24

Received this am the marriage certificates of grand parents and g gparents and have been puzzling all day. One says
Married in Soar Chapel acording to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Independents by Certificate by me
Other says
Married in the Register Office by Licence before me
Please can anyone who knows more than me explain to me the difference between a Licence and a Certificate and between " by me " and "before me".
Many thanks

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 13 Apr 2011 19:43

You can do no better than look at this excellent document.

http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm

Select Marriage Certs, then go to section headed "Rest of the Certificate" and you should find the answers you are looking for.

tempest

tempest Report 13 Apr 2011 19:48

Independents is another name for the Congregationalists. In 1972 the greater part of the Congregational Church in England and Wales united with the Presbyterian Church in England to form the United Reform Church

Researching:
desperately seeking great grandmothers

Salimali

Salimali Report 13 Apr 2011 20:09

InspectorGreenPen
have bookmarked the page, lots of information there

tempest
I have often thought what the United Reform Church was, in this part of Wales we are still Annibynwyr ( Independents).
Many thanks to you both