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Marriage Law for Genealogists: The Definitive Guide ...what everyone tracing their family history needs to know about where, when, who and how their English and Welsh ancestors married (2012)
How should we interpret our ancestors' decisions to marry in a particular form or place, or at a particular time? Did their choices make them exceptional or normal for their day? Might their marriages have been bigamous, clandestine, or void? Or might they have conscientiously followed the rules set down by Church and State? Since its publication in 2012, Marriage Law for Genealogists has become the indispensable guide for everyone tracing the marriages of their English and Welsh ancestors between 1600 and the twentieth century. Based upon years of painstaking primary research and studies of thousands of couples, it explains clearly and concisely why, how, when and where people in past centuries married. Family historians just starting out will find advice on where 'missing' marriages are most likely to be found, while those who are already well advanced in tracing their family tree will be able to interpret their discoveries to better understand their ancestors' motivations. Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at Warwick University and the leading authority on the history of the marriage laws of England and Wales, a subject on which she has written extensively.… (más)
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For Dad,
who first introduced me
to Lord Hardwicke's Act
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Why Do Genealogists Need A New Guide to Marriage Law?
Introduction
I was in my early teens when my father decided to start researching our family tree. We spent many hours in Warwickshire Record Office, patiently reading through parish registers. Conveniently—if somewhat disappontingly for one hoping for evidence of some scandalus forbears—our ancestors proved remarkably easy to find, with each preceding generation appearing in the marriage registers at neatly spaced intervals..
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A Final Thought
If the evidence in this chapter seems complex, spare a thought for future generations of genealogists. Since 1995 it has been possible for couples to marry in a civil ceremony outside their area of residence, and indeed in a far wider range of places, such as castles, stately homes and even the occasional supermarket. And today's couples are far more likely than even their recent predecessors to jet off to the far side of the world to tie the knot. It has been estimated that in 2009 90,000 individuals travelled abroad from England and Wales to marry, and, since these overseas marriages do not need to be re-registered when the couple return to this country, our descendants attempting to trace marriages in the late twentieth and earl twenty-first centuries may find themselves baffled.
How should we interpret our ancestors' decisions to marry in a particular form or place, or at a particular time? Did their choices make them exceptional or normal for their day? Might their marriages have been bigamous, clandestine, or void? Or might they have conscientiously followed the rules set down by Church and State? Since its publication in 2012, Marriage Law for Genealogists has become the indispensable guide for everyone tracing the marriages of their English and Welsh ancestors between 1600 and the twentieth century. Based upon years of painstaking primary research and studies of thousands of couples, it explains clearly and concisely why, how, when and where people in past centuries married. Family historians just starting out will find advice on where 'missing' marriages are most likely to be found, while those who are already well advanced in tracing their family tree will be able to interpret their discoveries to better understand their ancestors' motivations. Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at Warwick University and the leading authority on the history of the marriage laws of England and Wales, a subject on which she has written extensively.