LIST 6 - MARRIAGES - GROOMS NAME ORDER

 
 
There were 539 marriages recorded during this 'decade'. 
 
The information recorded for each marriage is as follows:
               date
               church
               groom 
                    family name
                    Christian name
                    year and ship of arrival
                    civil status at time of marriage
                    age at marriage
               bride 
                    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 groom.
 
With regard to the grooms, the identities of 93% have been found. There  were  419  convicts  
or former  convicts  (78%),  65  were soldiers or former soldiers (12%) and 18 came free 
(3%).
 
The  marriages  for the only two churches in the  colony  at  the time;  St  Phillips Sydney 
& St Johns Parramatta,  are  separated into the two parishes and are listed in chronological 
order.
 
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 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.
 
Neither of the parish registers recorded the age at marriage. The age at marriage is a derived 
figure, calculated mostly from  ages recorded  in shipping indents but also occasionally 
from ages  in musters and at burials. In no cases is it calculated from a known date  of 
birth. Therefore they must be treated as an estimate  at best. Whether Rose Flood was twelve 
years old when she married is open to conjecture, likewise with Thomas McCabe who is 
calculated to be only fourteen at marriage.
 
The ages of 359 of the grooms have been calculated, ranging  from 14  to  67  years.  
 
There were also reputed to be 49 marriages celebrated on  Norfolk Island.
 
               Table 6.1.
 
          SPS       274       51%
          SJP       216       40%
          NI         49        9%


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