LIST 15 - MARRIAGES - GROOMS 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
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 91% have been found. There
were 1,344 convicts or former convicts (70%), 89 were soldiers
or former soldiers (5%), 181 came free (9%) and 147 were colonial born
(8%).
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.
The ages of 76% of the grooms have been calculated, ranging from 15
to 78 years.
There are twelve entries where no church is recorded, with nine even
specifying an exact date. These entries come from the Pioneer
Register project. Either the descendants have information not
recorded in official records or some "historical revisionism" has
taken place in an attempt to hide illegitimate births.
Table 15.1.
SJP 557 29%
SPS 515 27%
SDH 292 15%
SMW 272 14%
SJL 93 5%
CCC 56 3%
SLL 49 3%
SPR 41 2%
SMS 18 1%
PR 12 1%
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