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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