Marriage Records

After 1538 the Church of England was supposed to keep records of baptisms, burials and marriages, although it wasn't until the end of the century that record-keeping was enforced. Even then, the ...

Finding any records in the pre-1538 world (when, under the Church of England, parish registers began) is a difficult, and often impossible task. It's hard enough when you're dealing with baptismal ...

You're hinting back for a particular marriage certificate that should be there, but it's not. After a few fruitless hours, things can become very frustrating. But there are a number of reasons a ...

Along with birth and death certificates, marriage certificates are the real meat and potatoes of a genealogist's research. One of the great joys of them is that they're generally less susceptible to ...

Not everyone hails from England or Wales, of course, and even for those living there, their ancestors might well have been born and married elsewhere. Scotland, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man ...

In New Zealand, the registration of marriage first became compulsory in 1854 and you can find records from that time onwards in the Registrar General's Index of Marriages (for Maoris, registration ...

The registers of many Nonconformist churches only recorded baptisms and burials, although a few did include marriages. However, perhaps the main point you should be aware of is the fact that between ...

According to the 1851 census, about 25% of the population didn't consider themselves to be Anglicans. Many of those were classed as Nonconformist, an umbrella term taking in Methodists, Quakers and ...