MARRIAGES - ST PETERS CAMPBELLTOWN

 
 
During this decade there were 124 marriages performed at St Peters, five 
more than for the previous decade. On average one marriage 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
 officating 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.
 
The Rev Reddall was one of the few to record the civil status of the parties 
after 1826. Like a lot of the Hawkebury River churches the high percentage 
of colonial born participants is a feature of the register.
 
With regard to the grooms 95 (77%) have been identified and the brides 102 
(82%) have been identified. The consent of the Governor was required in 
65 cases (52%). 
 
The Rev Thomas Reddall continued as rector from the previous decade until 
his death in 1838 when the Rev Robert Forrest took over the parish. The Rev 
Thomas Hassall performed the occasional marriage as did the Rev Richard Taylor.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish 
register. In this instance the numbers run from G064 to G165 the end of 1838. 
In 1839 the numbers were re-initailized to H001 and run to H022 by the end 
of the decade.
 
There were two marriages in the State Archives Pioneer Series file which 
have no entry on this parish register. It is very likely that these result 
from typographical errors and relate to post 1840 marriages.
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name 
would be made on Lists 3 or 4 using code "SPC" 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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