LIST 16 - MARRIAGES - BRIDES NAME ORDER
There were 1,920 marriages recorded during this decade, which is
nearly three times as many 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 91% have been found. There
were 1,150 convicts or former convicts (60%) 159 came free (8%) and
449 were colonial born (23%).
There were five duplicate entries, 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 80% of the brides have been calculated, ranging from 13
to 70 years. It would seem unlikely though that Mary Rowe was nine
years old at marriage or that Belinda Pitches was eleven.
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