LIST 13 - MARRIAGES - ST JOHNS PARRAMATTA

 
 
There were 257 marriages performed at St Johns during this decade. On 
average almost five marriages per 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 to convicts). 
Interested readers are urged to consult the originals.
 
With regard to  the grooms; the arrival details of 22 remain unknown. Richard 
Barnett was known to be an emancipist but the ship of arrival is unknown.
 
With regard to the brides; the arrival details of 15 remain unknown whilst 
Sarah Ash was came free and Ann Farr was a convict their ships of arrival are 
unknown. 
 
As explained above the age at marriage is a derived figure.
 
The Comments column occasionally records the place of residence of the father, 
even less frequenty of the mother. This column has also been used to record 
when the officiating minister was someone other than Rev Samuel Marsden.
 
After his return from Norfolk Island in 1806 Rev Fulton performed several 
marriages at St Johns and stood in for Rev Marsden when the latter visited 
England, at least until the military interregnum which followed the Rum 
Rebellion of January 1808. For the two years 1808 and 1809 ceremonies were 
performed by Anthony Fenn Kemp JP and James Mileham JP. At least three couples 
doubted the legality of these marriages and were remarried by an ordained priest, 
these are marked with an asterix (*). 
 
The exact date in 1803 of the marriage of Thomas Upton and Sarah Pigg has not 
been recorded.
 
The descendants of John Moss and Elizabeth Hinks claim they were married at 
St Johns on 8th April 1810 but no confirming record of this marriage has been 
found.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish 
register. In this decade the numbers run from 215 to 469. 
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name 
would be made on Lists 10 or 11 using code "SJP" 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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