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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [OEL] 15 & 16C Statistics
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:12:31 +0100
In-Reply-To: <CCEJILOPMDICBMMNNJGPOEBCFDAA.von@yvonnepurdy.free-online.co.uk>


In message <-
online.co.uk>, Yvonne Purdy <> writes
>Hi Eve,
>
>Thank you for your reply, but I'm still intrigued. One of the entries I
>sent even states the church in which they married.
>>>
>1561
>5. GREAT BUDWORTH Elizabeth Banks alias Houlse c George Houlse in a divorce
>suit. She was aged 13 and he was 10 at the time of the marriage and they
>were married in Knutsford church and Elizabeth came from Middlewich parish -
>fragment of libel and decree.<<

The vicar was a bit naughty in that case.
>
>Presumably, they didn't set up home together, but returned to their parents
>until they were of full age.
This seems to have been usual -
>
>In all the cases, the parties carried the same surnames, so had they
>actually gone through a marriage ceremony? If it was a contract to marry
>later, would the girl not have had a different surname to the boy?
The contract counted as having the force of marriage - a ceremony was
not absolutely necessary (though the church preferred it)
>

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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