Genealogy Chat

Got more now: James Robson Wait Mary Jane Bussey James Carr Jane Wheatley William Bassett Sarah Ann Thirkell B Hughes Mary H Horner

can't read some of mine but the ones I can Frederick Thompson Mary Ann Cooper 1870 marriage in All saints church Moxley Staffs Samuel Smith Maria Smith 1886 marriage Willenhall Staffs George Bytheway 1877 Marriage Walsall staffs William Hutchison Alice Jardine 1926 Marriage Pleck Walsall Staffs

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my list is joshua lightfoot,ann lightfoot 1884 cockermouth. george wheatley,francis barrass 1871 newcastle. joseph whialing 1894 salford.bernard mc cluskey, ethel ann mc cluskey 1898 gateshead.joseph gladson,william galdson 1846 gateshead. joseph gladson, james lavrick 1840 gateshead. richard dodds rebecca hall 1873 gateshead. david law or laws george emmerson 1876 hetton le hole.james bulger,emily hodgson 1904 gateshead joseph greenwell,eleanor richardson 1895 gateshead. septuel norwood, barbara e richardson 1923 gateshead.

Heres mine: Henry WILTON & Matilda GUNTER St. Leonards, Shoreditch 1875 Giovanalle GIACHARDI & Fanny SELLER St. James Westminster, 1874 Charles William HAWES & Jane HAWES, St. Leonards, Shoreditch, 1879 John REFFELL & Mary REFFELL, City of London 1841 Henry David Morgan & Margaret Isabella Morgan Islington 1902 T. PHELPS, Alice BRAY & Charles Wide( I think) Maxine

I have far too many names to put in here!! That says a little about how many marriage certs I have! When there is a real site to enter them, I will do it willingly, but not here where it will soon disappear. Sadly, this is no help to anyone- sorry. Wendy

UPDATE: My clever bloke has volunteered to help me set up a better version of this website, where you can input your own details and then do searches. Anyone who has sent me details - I will use these as a base - but I suggest no more e-mails until things are sorted. Watch this Space! George

Hi Pamela, Yes, I have several marriages where the witnesses to the marriage were later marries to each other. And yes, many of them took place in County Durham, but not exclusively. Debbie

Thanks - yes, place married does mean where the people witnessed the marriage. It makes sense to have two lists - one for place in case you want to search for bride and groom, rather than see if your ancestors were witnesses or not.

Georgina I've just had a look at your site and it seems to work brilliantly. I assume the heading Place Married means where the person was Witness to a Marriage. Well done! Sue

Looking at 1900-1940s church register recently for family mariages I realised that it had been the custom for engaged couples to act as marriage witnesses (eg my engaged, but not yet married grandparents witnessed my grandfathers second marriage the same year, and various others which made it possible to realise that a maiden aunt had been engaged, but her fiance was killed in 1st ww (and find him on the debt of honour roll). Has anyone else come across this or was it a recent or purely local (Durham) custom? Pam

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Don't mind lots of e-mails - makes me look popular at least!! Just as long as people bear in mind that if I get lots, it may takes some time.

Hi Georgina I think its very good of you to take up this task . Things like this take up a lot of time and effort. I dont think i would be able to do anything like this. Soon you will have so many emails , they will be coming out of your ears. Thankyou for your help Sarah

Items are know going onto the site -please report any problems to me!!! http://www(.)personal(.)leeds(.)ac.uk/~phy7grl

Okay - I've put up a page with the alphabetical listings and created two samples pages for listings for surnames under 'A' and 'B'. Be grateful if someone would click on the links and check they work. http://www(.)personal(.)leeds(.)ac.uk/~phy7grl Feedback welcome. But this should be a simple list system, and I'm not a great web artist!

Yes please e-mail me direct by clicking on my name. I will post the web address when I have some pages up and working! Juast the thing to distract me from my studies!!! :)

Georgina That's really good of you and will be much appreciated. Would it be easier if we all email you direct with the details you need from us - even if we have already posted them? Please let us know. Thanks in anticipation.

I'll sick my neck out and say I'm willing to give it a go at compling a list o Marriage Witnesses ONLY. I'm allowed web space at my uni so can do an alphabetical list, where you click on a letter to get to a surname page. Any suggestions please let me know - it'll be slow, but if I can put in 1/2 hr - 1hr a day adding lists from e-mails sent to me it should work ??????? I'll want Last name, first name, place listed on certificate, registration district, date and a reference number for peolple to order at the FHC or online. Your e-mail would also be helpful, so people can double check details. Who knows, you could even find links to family!