MARRIAGES - ST PAULS COBBITTY

 
 
During  this decade 143 marriages were performed at St Pauls.  On average just 
over 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
               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 106 (74%) have been identified and  the brides 116 
(81%) have been identified. The consent of the Governor was required in 94 cases 
(66%).
 
The  Reverend  Thomas Hassall contined his  chaplaincy  from  the previous decade 
and continued until the end of the decade and who combined  his  duties with 
the rectorship of  All  Saints  Sutton Forest  until 1833. The parish covered 
the areas of Cobbitty  and Narellan.  The Rev Samuel Marsden performed one 
marriage in  1831 and the Rev John Keane one in 1834.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in  the original  parish  
register. In this decade the numbers  run  from "039"  to  "161"  at the end 
of 1838 when the  numbers  were  re-initiallized  to B001 in 1839 and finihsed 
at B022 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 "SPCO"  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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