LIST 17 - MARRIAGES - ST PHILLIPS SYDNEY
There were 515 marriages performed at St Phillips during this decade.
On average about one marriage every week.
The information recorded for each marriage is as follows:
date
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
comments
reference number
The marriages are listed in chronological order.
It should be pointed out that in the original register the only
information recorded was; date, family name and Christian name of both
bride and groom. Information in the register but not included
here includes; the officiating minister, names of the witnesses to
the marriage and who gave consent to the marriage (the father to
colonial born brides and the governor for convicts). Interested
readers are urged to consult the originals.
As explained above the age at marriage is a derived figure.
The Rev Cowper arrived in September 1809 to commence his long
service at St Phillips (until his death in 1851). He continued to
record the occupation of the grooms in the Comments column. This
column has also been used to record when the officiating minister was
someone other than Rev William Cowper.
The Reference Number would direct the reader to the entry in the
original parish register. In this decade the numbers start from B194
and run to B249. The Rev Cowper started a new numbering system
in 1812 starting with the letter "C", this series runs from C001
until C341. In 1819 he started yet another numbering system starting
with the letter "D", this series runs from D001 to D118 at the end
of 1820.
For some reason the Rev Samuel Marsden married John Eyre & Susannah
Wilshire on 25th August 1812. Unlike Cowper he did not record the
occupation of the groom.
With the arrival of the 46th Regiment, the regimental chaplain
Benjamin Vale started performing occasional marriages: in 1815; 12th
June, 20th June & 15th September, in 1816; 23rd January. Like Marsden
he did not record the occupation of the groom.
In November of 1819 the Rev Richard Hill began performing
marriages almost on an alternate basis with the Rev Cowper.
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on
the name would be made on Lists 15 or 16 using code "SPS" from which
the date of marriage would be retrieved, secondly using the
appropriate date, the marriage would then be located on this list.
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