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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