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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