LIST 41 - MARRIAGES - ST JOHNS WILBERFROCE

 
 
The first marriage was performed at St Johns on the 20th February 1826 by the 
Rev Matthew D Meares. Up until the end of 1830 only 29 marriages were performed 
at St John's, all officiated by the Rev Meares.
 
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
 consent given by
 reference number
 
The 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, by whom consent given and 
the officiating minister. Information in the register but not included here 
includes; names of the witnesses to the marriage.
 
No additional information was recorded in the church register but from the 
"consent given" field one can make an educated guess at the civil status of 
the parties; convicts when it was the "governor", free persons when it was 
"friends" and colonial born when it was "parents". 
 
As explained above the age at marriage is a derived figure.
 
It is interesting to note that nearly half the marriages were between the 
colonial born.
 
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 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 "SJW" 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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