MARRIAGES - ST ANNES KISSING POINT

 
 
During this decade 61 marriages were performed at St Anne's, nine less 
than in the previous decade, on average about one marriage every two months. 
 
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" 
additions researched by this work to complement the church register. As 
explained above the age at marriage is a derived figure.
 
With regard to the grooms 45 (74%) have been identified and the brides 50 (82%) 
have been identified. The consent of the Governor was required in 30 cases (50%).
 
The Rev. Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton continued as rector from the previous 
decade but only stayed until the middle of 1831 when he was replaced by 
the Rev. Charles Dickinson who stayed until 1838 when he in turn was replaced 
in 1839 by Rev. George Turner until the end of the decade. The Rev. Robert 
Forrest performed one marriage in 1837.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish 
register. In this decade the numbers continued on from the previous decade at 
0010 and ran to 0069 by the end of the decade.
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name 
would be made on Lists 3 or 4 using code "SAKP" 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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