MARRIAGES - ST LUKES LIVERPOOL

 
 
During  this  decade  there were 145 marriages  performed  at  St Lukes,  fourteen 
less than the previous decade. On  average  just over one marriage per 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" 
additions researched by this  work to complement the church register. As 
explained above the age  at marriage is a derived figure.
 
Unfortunately Rev. Cartwright neglected to complete the "who gave consent" field, 
which is such a pity because it would have helped greatly to identify any convicts 
to the parties marrying.
 
The  Reverend  Robert Cartwright continued  with  his  chaplaincy following  on  
from  the  previous decade  until  1837  when  the Reverend Richard Taylor took  
over the parish for two years to be followed by the Revenend John Duffus until 
the end of the decade. Rev Thomas Hassall married his own brother in 1836 and 
Rev Duffus married his own daughter in 1840. 
 
With regard to the grooms 106 (73%) have been identified and  the brides  110  
(76%)  have  been identified.  The  consent  of  the Governor was required in 
67 cases (46%).
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in  the original  parish  
register. In this decade the numbers  run  from "B063" to B183 but were 
re-initialized to C001 in 1839 and run to C025 at 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 "SLL"  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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