Catalogue description CALENDAR OF MARRIAGE LICENCES

This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

Details of DS/MC
Reference: DS/MC
Title: CALENDAR OF MARRIAGE LICENCES
Description:

The calendar (previously referenced DS/MB/1) includes marriages in parishes previously in the Diocese of Rochester (1877 - 1904) and those in the Diocese of Southwark (1905 - 1910). Only the date of the licence and the names of the bride and groom are recorded. For example:

 

Date of licence Groom Bride

 

26 October 1877 William Embleton Ann Kirk.
Date: 1877 - 1910
Related material:

See also Marriage Licences 1940 - 1958 (DS/MB) and Marriage Warrants and Affidavits (Licences) 1905 - 1974 (DS/MP). For Marriage Warrants for the Diocese of Rochester (1886 - 1905) see DR/MP.
Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 0.50 linear feet
Immediate source of acquisition:

AC/62/55
Administrative / biographical background:

Under Canons 101 to 103 of 1604 marriage licences could only be issued by the ecclesiastical authorities who had jurisdiction over the parish where the marriage was to take place. Licences enabled couples to marry without publication or calling of banns in church.

 

Usually the licences were handed over to the marrying couple. Sometimes they may be found among the parish records where the marriage took place, but most marriage licences have not survived.

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