LIST 10 - MARRIAGES - NORFOLK ISLAND

 
 
There are 48 marriages claimed for Norfolk Island during this 'decade'. All the grooms 
and all the brides have been identified.
 
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
 
The chaplain to the New South Wales Corps, Rev James Bain, visited Norfolk Island 
in November 1794 as the first chaplain to do so and it is documented that he performed numerous 
marriages. Unfortunately no records from the period have been located at this time so 
all couples who are known to have had children by 1794 are listed. Not all these couples 
may in fact have been married and there may well have been others who did marry but who 
did not have children.
 
In the normally reliable genealogical source, Mollie Gillen's 'Founders of Australia' 
it is stated that Thomas Crowder married Mary Smith on the 22nd December 1799 at Norfolk 
Island but to date no evidence for this marriage has been found.

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