LIST 30 - MARRIAGES - ST JOHNS PARRAMATTA

 
 
During this decade there were 542 marriages performed at St Johns, twelve 
less than the previous 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
 officiating minister
 reference number
 
The marriages are listed in chronological order.
 
St Johns register routinely recorded the marriage date, family name and 
Christian name of both bride and groom, age, civil status and ship of 
arrival of marriage participants and the officiating minister. Information 
in the register but not included here includes; 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.
 
In 1826 a new printed marriage register was commenced and whilst this made 
the reading of the information much easier, such details as ship of arrival, 
status and age were only occasionally recorded.
 
At least in the case of the brides, by noting the information in the "with 
the consent of" field, "the governor/master" or "parents/father/guardians" 
at least indicates if she was a convict or colonial born.
 
The Comments column occasionally records the place of residence of the groom, 
even less frequently of the bride, if they resided outside of Parramatta. In 
a few cases the occupation of the groom is listed.
 
The chaplains and ministers assisting the Rev Samuel Marsden in his parish 
each year included:
 
1821: George Augustus Middleton, Richard Hill
1822: George Augustus Middleton, Richard Hill, Thomas Hassall, Robert 
Cartwright
1823: Thomas Hassall
1824: unknown
1825: unknown
1826: Thomas Hassall, John Espie Keane
1827: Frederick Wilkinson, James Norman, Charles P N Wilton
1828: Thomas Hassall, John Vincent, Charles P N Wilton
1829: John Vincent, Charles P N Wilton, Thomas Hassall, Frederick Wilkinson
1830: Thomas Hassall, Charles P N Wilton, William Yate, John Vincent
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish 
register. In this decade the numbers run from "1027". Regrettably the pages 
covering the period May 1823 to December 1825 appear to be missing from the 
microfilm held in the National Library in Canberra. Fortunately the Kerrison 
James index still covers this period but without identifying particulars. 
These entries run from "3125" to "3706" but they are not consecutive.
 
After the new registers were introduced the reference numbering system was 
reset each new year. In 1826 and 1827 it was set to "1", but in 1828 the year 
began with "372", 1829 with "639" then back to "1" in 1830.
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name 
would be made on Lists 27 or 28 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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