LIST 37 - MARRIAGES - ST PETERS CAMPBELLTOWN

 
 
The first marriage was performed at St Peters on the 9th April 1822. Up until 
the end of 1830 there were 119 marriages performed at St Peters. On average about 
one marriage every month.
 
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
 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 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.
 
As explained above the age at marriage is a derived figure.
 
Unfortunately the earliest registers are not available on microfilm at 
the National Library and the only source of information for the marriages 
from 1822 to 1825 is the Kerrison James Index which only gives the date of 
the marriage. As a consequence it is not recorded who the first chaplain 
at this parish was but the Rev Thomas Reddall was the chaplain from 1826 until 
the end of the decade.
 
The Rev Reddall was one of the few to record the civil status of the parties 
after 1826. Like a lot of the inland churches the high percentage of colonial 
born participants is a feature of the register.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish 
register. In this instance the numbers run from 0001 to 0065 at the end of 1825. 
As with all the churches in the colony, following Governor Brisbane's 
directive, St Peters received a printed register in 1826 and the numbering 
system of marriages reverted to "1" at the start of each new year.
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name 
would be made on Lists 27 or 28 using code "SPC" 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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