LIST 40 - MARRIAGES - ST JAMES PITT TOWN
The first marriage was performed at St James on the 12th June 1826 by the
Reverend Mathew Devenish Meares. There were only twenty-one marriages
performed at St James up to the end of 1830, all officiated by the Rev Meares.
The information recorded for each marriage is as follows:
date groom family name Christian nameyear 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 reference numberThe marriages are listed in chronological order.
In the original register the standard information recorded was; date, family
name and Christian name of both bride and groom and the officiating minister.
Information in the register but not included here includes; names of the
witnesses to the marriage.
As explained above the age at marriage is a derived figure.
The first chaplain for this parish was the Reverend Matthew D Meares who was
apparently a very busy man sharing his time between St James Pitt Town, St
Johns Wilberforce and St Thomas Sackville Reach.
The remarkable thing about the marriages at this church during this decade
was that fourteen of the brides were colonial born and one other arrived free
in the colony as a child and nine of the grooms were colonial born.The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish register.
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name
would be made on Lists 27 or 28 using code "SJPT" 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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