Hi - does anyone know if there are any marriage licences still in existance in Cheshire? Where would be the most likely place be to look? Thanks Sandra

You will be extremely lucky to find a Licence but you could find the associated bond and allegation at Cheshire RO. Ruth in Hampshire Sent from my iPhone > On 26 Apr 2014, at 11:01, sandra.bev@talktalk.net wrote: > > > > Hi - does anyone know if there are any marriage licences still in existance in Cheshire? > > Where would be the most likely place be to look? > > Thanks > Sandra > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

The marriage licence bonds do exist, but by no means all of them have survived! Unless someone does a PhD on their survival rate, we'd all be guessing, but I recently had a list of several dozen I needed to check for transcription of registers, and found less than 10%. I suspect, and only suspect, that earlier ones may have a better survival rate (I was searching 1813-37). The only time I have seen an extant licence was one folded into a parish register I was working on! It was for a far more modern period than the register was!!! Jacqui ________________________________________ From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com <cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com> on behalf of Ruth <orange.wasps@live.co.uk> Sent: 26 April 2014 11:43 To: sandra.bev@talktalk.net Cc: CHESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CHS] Marriage Licence You will be extremely lucky to find a Licence but you could find the associated bond and allegation at Cheshire RO. Ruth in Hampshire Sent from my iPhone > On 26 Apr 2014, at 11:01, sandra.bev@talktalk.net wrote: > > > > Hi - does anyone know if there are any marriage licences still in existance in Cheshire? > > Where would be the most likely place be to look? > > Thanks > Sandra > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

<<snipped>> Hi - does anyone know if there are any marriage licences still in existance in Cheshire? Where would be the most likely place be to look? <<snipped>> Look in FamilySearch, they have a dataset called "England, Cheshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1606-1900". This is only an index, of course. The images are on FindMyPast, in with the marriages. I just checked and despite any rumours to the contrary, I found the one I looked for! For reasons that have, I *suspect* (but *cannot* prove), everything to do with the indexing carried out by FamilySearch, it is sometimes not possible to find both bond and allegation, though it's inconsistent which is found. Also, some of the index references do not point to bond or allegation, but to the entry in what I think is called the Act Book - basically, a list of licences issued. I have to say that my hit rate of finding them is good, with only a handful missing - it may depend on which shelf the stuff was stored on when the clerk wanted some scrap paper.... Adrian B