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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