LIST 26 - MARRIAGES - ST MARYS SYDNEY
The Reverend John Joseph Terry arrived in the colony in 1820 aboard
the "Janus". The first entry in the marriage register was dated 28th
October 1819 with the notation "before leaving Ireland" whether
Robert Moss and Elizabeth Bride came to the colony is yet to be
determined. The second entry was dated the 16th June 1820 in Sydney.
There were a further 14 entries for 1820.
The information recorded for each marriage is as follows:
date
groom
family name
Christian name
year and ship of arrival
civil status at time of marriage
age at marriage
bride
family name
Christian name
year and ship of arrival
civil status at time of marriage
age at marriage
officiating minister
comments
reference number
The marriages are listed in chronological order.
Three of the marriages are duplicates of marriages that occurred
earlier in the decade in Protestant churches.
It should be pointed out that in the original register the only
information recorded was; date, family name and Christian name of both
bride and groom. Information in the register but not included
here includes; the officiating minister, names of the witnesses to
the marriage and who gave consent to the marriage (the father to
colonial born brides and the governor to convicts). Interested
readers are urged to consult the originals.
As explained above the age at marriage is a derived figure.
When the Rev Terry first landed in Sydney, there was of course no
catholic church building and for the first few years the marriage
register was in a real sense the parish. As he travelled around the
colony he performed marriages and the register gives a type of travel
guide to his movements for the first couple of years.
The Comments column records these places of marriage.
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the
original parish register. In this instance the numbers run from 001
to 016.
In circumstances not dissimilar to the baptismal register, two
entries in the St Marys' Hobart Vand Diemens Land register, relate
to marriages performed in Sydney by Rev Conolly.
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on
the name would be made on Lists 15 or 16 using code "SMS" from which
the date of marriage would be retrieved, secondly using the
appropriate date, the marriage would then be located on this list.
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