MARRIAGES - ST PETERS RICHMOND

 
 
During  this decade 96 marriages were performed at St Peters,  38 more than the 
previous decade. Almost 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.
 
The  Reverend  Joseph  Docker  continued  as  minister  from  the previous  decade 
and stayed until the end of 1834 then Rev  Henry Styles took over in 1835 staying 
for the rest of the decade.  The Reverends  Charles Dickinson, Thomas Hassall 
and  Samuel  Marsden all performed one marriage each during the decade.
 
With regard to the grooms 79 (82%) have been identified and  the brides  84  (88%)  
have  been identified.  The  consent  of  the Governor was required in 43 cases 
(45%).
 
Yvonne  Browning's  "St  Peters Richmond, The  Early  People  and Burials,  
1791  -  1855"   was  also  most  helpful  in  providing information.
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in  the original parish 
register. In this decade the numbers run from 100 to 195. 
 
There was one marriage in the State Archives Pioneer Series  file which  has  
no entry on this parish register. It is  very  likely that it results from a 
typographical error and relates to a  post 1840 marriage.
 
To  locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical  search on  the name 
would be made on Lists 3 or 4 using code "SPR"  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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