MARRIAGES - ST PETERS EAST MAITLAND

 
 
During this decade 293 marriages were performed at St Peters.  On average over 
two 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.
 
With  regard to the grooms 213 (73%) have been identified and  the brides 218 
(74%) have been identified. The consent of the Governor was required in 201 cases 
(68%).
 
The Rev. Frederick Wilkinson did not continue as rector from  the previous decade 
but rather the Rev.Charles Wilton took charge  of the parish in April 1831 
(allbeit Archdeacon and Rev.Richard Hill performed  four marriages until he 
arrived) and  continued  until August 1834 when Rev.George Keylock Rusden became 
the rector  for the  remainder  of  the decade. Rev. Rusden married  two  of  
his daughters at St Peters.
 
In  1838  the parish of St Marys West Maitland  was  established, dividing the 
parish in two,  with the consequence that the number of marriages performed in 
the last three years of the decade were significantly reduced.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in  the original parish 
register. The numbers continued from the previous decade  but  commencing  at 
10 (skipping 8  &  9).  In  1834  the numbers  jumped from 64 to 70 and 92 is  
duplicated. The  numbers were reinitialized to B001 in 1836 and reached B166 
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 "SPEM"  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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