MARRIAGES - ST THOMAS PORT MACQUARIE

 
 
During this decade there were 130 marriages performed at St Thomas. On 
average one 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' and 'civil status 
at time of marriage' are all "value added" additions researched by this work 
to complement the church register.
 
The Rev. Cross was meticulous in recording the ages of the parties, one 
of the few to do so. 
 
With regard to the grooms 105 (81%) have been identified and the brides 112 
(86%) have been identified. The consent of the Governor was required in 
102 cases (78%), this being the highest of any church for the decade reflecting 
the fact that Port Macquarie was a penal colony. 
 
Following on from the previous decade, the Rev.John Cross continued to 
ministry at St Thomas' for the whole of the decade.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish 
register. For some reason the year 1831 began with the number B004 and ran 
until B141 at the end of 1840. 
 
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 27 or 28 using code "STPM" 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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