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From: "scotsman" <>
Subject: Re: Strand Union
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 00:57:02 +0000 (UTC)
References: <e829be984c%Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk>


Graeme

If you search for "Stand Union" in Google, it brings up a few websites that
may be of interest to you. (You may have done that already, of course!)

Ian

"Graeme Wall" <> wrote in message
news:e829be984c%...
> I've just received the marriage certificate if my great-great-grandparents
> who were married at the "Register Office in the District of the Strand
Union
> in the County of Middlesex". Can anyone tell me what was the significance
of
> the Strand Union?
>
> Both were living at 2 Hanford Place, Drury Lane, at the time of the
marriage
> (1838), I wonder if this was the reason they married in the register
office
> rather than in church, must check the date of birth of the first child!
>
> One frustrating point, there is no profession given for the Bride's father
> (or the Bride for that matter). I can think of two options, first, he
died
> some years before the wedding, so his daughter didn't know what he did, or
as
> a variation, she'd left home so long before (she was born in Bristol)
she'd
> forgotten what he did.
>
> --
> Graeme Wall
>
> My genealogy website:
> <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>;


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