MARRIAGES - CHRIST CHURCH NEWCASTLE
During this decade there were 250 marriages performed at Christ Church, just
two more than for the previous decade, on average about two marriages
every month.
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
parish
bride
family name
Christian name
year and ship of arrival
civil status at time of marriage
age at marriage
parish
consent given by
officiating minister
reference number
The marriages are listed in chronological order.
Post 1826 all parishes were required to record all marriages on a standardized
printed form, which contained the following information: register entry
number, family name and Christian name of both bride and groom, residant parish
of the bride and groom, date of marriage, who gave consent to the marriage
and the officiating minister. Information recorded on the register but not
included here includes the names of the witnesses to the marriage (Interested
readers are urged to consult the original register for this information).
It should be pointed out that 'year and ship of arrival', 'civil status at time
of marriage' and 'age at marriage' for both bride and groom are all "value added"
additons researched by this work to complement the church register.
The marriage register occasionally recorded the civil status of the parties
and occasionally for serving convicts their ship of arrival (but not the year).
With regard to the grooms 218 (87%) have been identified and the brides 219
(88%) have been identified. The consent of the Governor was required in
206 cases (82%).
The Newcastle Family History Society's "Christ Church, Newcastle, NSW,
1804-1900, Transcriptions and Indexes of Baptism, Marriage and Burial
Registers" was also most helpful in providing information.
The Reverend Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton was appointed chaplain at Newcastle
from 1831 and was to remain in this parish until his death in 1859. He performed
his first marriage at Christ Church on the 4th July 1831. The Rev. William
Cowper performed one marriage in 1833, the Rev. R Taylor one in 1837, the
Rev. George Rusden one in 1839 and the Rev. Charles Spencer two in 1839 (one
of which was the Rev. Wilton's own marriage in the parish) plus one in 1840.
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish
register. In this instance the numbers run from B093 to B302 at the end of 1838.
In 1839 the numbering system of marriages reverted to "1" with C001 until C038
at the end of 1840.
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name
would be made on Lists 3 or 4 using code "CCN" 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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