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From: "Mike Wrigley" <>
Subject: RE: [WRY] Marriages
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:35:27 -0000
In-Reply-To: <200301212201.h0LM1Fo48866@mail.freeola.enta.net>

Roy

This is the case only if we assume that everyone was a "law-abiding
citizen". Anyone with even a modicum of history will know that this is a
VERY grey area where religion is concerned. Nonconformists, particularly,
were very keen on flouting the "rules"

Regards

Mike

>
> What I was saying was that a marriage could not have taken place at a
> Moravian chapel in 1830 because it wouldn't have been legal under
> Hardwicke's Marriage Act.
>
> What happens today is of no relevance whatsoever to the situation pre
> 1837.
>
> Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies)
> Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
> Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:-
> www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

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    • RE: [WRY] Marriages by "Mike Wrigley" <>

      • Re: [WRY] Marriages by "mfirth" <>
  • [WRY] Religious leanings by Eileen <>
    • RE: [WRY] Religious leanings by "Tony Munford" <>
    • RE: [WRY] Religious leanings by "Terry Barcock" <>
    • Re: [WRY] Religious leanings by Kim Groothuis <>
    • Re: [WRY] Religious leanings by "Roy Stockdill" <>
      • RE: [WRY] Marriages by "Mike Wrigley" <>