LIST 11 - MARRIAGES - BRIDES NAME ORDER

 
 
There   were   742   marriages  recorded   during   this   decade. Interestingly  
this  is  only  200 more  than  in  the  previous 'decade'.
 
The information recorded for each marriage is as follows:
               date
               church
               bride 
                    family name
                    Christian name
                    year and ship of arrival
                    civil status at time of marriage
                    age at marriage
               groom 
                    family name
                    Christian name
                    year and ship of arrival
                    civil status at time of marriage
                    age at marriage
 
The marriages are listed in alphabetical order on the name of the bride.
 
With regard to the brides, the identities of 93% have been found. The  ship  of 
arrival is unknown for a further two  cases.  There were 509 convicts or former 
convicts (69%) 87 came free (12%) and 96 were colonial born (13%).
 
There  were  seven  couples  who  remarried  after  the  military interregnum,  
suspecting no doubt that their first  marriage  may not have been legal, these 
are marked with an asterix (*). 
 
The parish registers only recorded the date of the marriage,  the name  of  the  
groom, the name of the bride,  the  names  of  the witnesses  and  the name of 
the officiating minister.  All  other information for the marriage has been value 
added either from the shipping indents or the early musters. A hint of the civil 
status of  the parties is revealed if the marriage was  performed  "with the  
consent of the Governor" which would indicate that at  least one of the parties 
to the marriage was a serving convict.
 
None  of the parish registers recorded the age at  marriage.  The age at marriage 
is therefore a derived figure, calculated  mostly from ages recorded in shipping 
indents but also occasionally from ages in musters and at burials. Only for the 
colonial born is  it calculated  from  a known date of birth. Therefore they  
must  be treated  as  an  estimate at best. Whether  Sarah  Frederick  was eleven  
years old when she married or Catherine Turner was twelve is  open to conjecture, 
as indeed the seven other girls who  were only thirteen.
 
The ages of 379 (51%) of the brides have been calculated, ranging from 11 to 
70 years. 


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