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Borders, how important? Any thoughts?
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Nicky 'n' Steve | Report | 12 Jul 2007 23:51 |
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You die where you die of course, yeah a little bit of my post was a little bit tongue-in-cheek - but I suppose, using the Offley example, what I was getting at is if you lived in Hertfordshire, why would you get married in Bedfordshire, or wouldn't it even have been relevant to you? |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 12 Jul 2007 23:37 |
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Not quite sure what you mean about being registered in the same area? Things have always been registered in the area where they happened. They may have been living out of their 'normal' area when they married, for instance. you only have to be resident in an area for three weeks to marry there - less,or not at all, if you marry by licence. We only have ten year markers in the form of census - they could have been anywhere doing anything, in the intervening nine years, eleven months and thirty days, lol. Births happen where they happen - on a visit to relatives, on an outing, etc, and many new brides went home to mum for the birth of their first child. And you die where you die - on a trip to the market, on a trip to relatives in the next county, or wherever you happen to be. Incidentally, if your Cheadle relatives married in Manchester Cathedral, that may have been because MC was a 'peculiar' and asked no questions of marrying couples, neither did it require Banns to be called. OC |
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Nicky 'n' Steve | Report | 12 Jul 2007 23:22 |
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Following on from some comments in another thread, here's a poser for people to give their opinions on.... How important to mr & mrs average would the borders between counties and parishes have been? What makes people decide to confuse those future generations of us who are researching them by getting married / dying in a different place? lol! I have ancestors from the village of Offley in Hertfordshire who decided to get married in Luton, over the border in Bedfordshire. I have ancestors from Handforth in Cheshire who married in Cheadle (Cheshire) or Manchester (Lancashire) - neither in the same parish. Wouldn't the beaurocracy of the day try and ensure that things were registered in the same area, or wouldn't it have mattered? What do we all think? |
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