Hello All and Happy New Year, I was searching for a marriage in Cheshire between James PENDLEBURY and his wife Ann (no surname known prior to the search). I found the allegation with Ann DAVENPORT on family search but no marriage in 1861. Other researchers have James marrying in Rochdale,Lancashire to an Ann TUDOR and the names of the children include Tudor as a middle name. No marriage for James and Ann DAVENPORT could be found in FreeBMD, Ancestry or CheshireBMD websites and I wondered if the marriage had just been missed from transcriptions. No church name is given by family search. Any suggestions welcome Best wishes, J

The marriage allegation will simply an oath that there was no hindrance to the parties marrying. It did not necessarily mean that they did marry, although it is unusual to go through the process of obtaining a licence (which was the purpose of the Bond and Allegation) and then not follow through. Don't forget that FreeBMD and Cheshire BMD, as well as the FreeBMD transcript on Ancestry, are all from the same source, so if the original index to marriages at the GRO is incorrect, so will the others be. The allegation usually indicates where the proposed marriage will take place - I suggest you check the register, if it is a church, just to make sure. Ruth in Hampshire > -----Original Message----- > From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Julian Ravenscroft > Sent: 10 January 2014 13:07 > To: cheshire@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CHS] Marriage Allegation on FamilySearch but no > marriage found > > Hello All and Happy New Year, > > I was searching for a marriage in Cheshire between James > PENDLEBURY and his wife Ann (no surname known prior to the > search). I found the allegation with Ann DAVENPORT on family > search but no marriage in 1861. Other researchers have James > marrying in Rochdale,Lancashire to an Ann TUDOR and the names > of the children include Tudor as a middle name. > > No marriage for James and Ann DAVENPORT could be found in > FreeBMD, Ancestry or CheshireBMD websites and I wondered if > the marriage had just been missed from transcriptions. No > church name is given by family search. > > Any suggestions welcome > > Best wishes, > J > > ------------------------------- > 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>> I was searching for a marriage in Cheshire between James PENDLEBURY and his wife Ann (no surname known prior to the search). I found the allegation with Ann DAVENPORT on family search but no marriage in 1861. ... No marriage for James and Ann DAVENPORT could be found in FreeBMD, Ancestry or CheshireBMD <<snipped>> Hm. I can't see what's going on here. For what it's worth, the entry that's been indexed is not a marriage allegation (bonds having died out by this time) but simply an entry in the "Act" book that lists applications for marriage licences. James Pendlebury is a farmer of the parish of Ashton (which Ashton??) and Ann Davenport is of the parish of Billinge. It looks like the intended church for the marriage is in the parish chapelry of Billinge, with the person of Howard St. George either officiating or issuing the licence. Howard St G is in Lancashire OPC as vicar at St Aidan, Billinge, ***Lancashire*** at this time. There is, however, no sign on http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Billinge/staidan/index.html of such a marriage. This suggests two possibilities: 1. The marriage never took place; 2. James P wasn't the groom but the applicant for the licence - this did happen to one of my female ancestors - they are indexed as marrying X, but the marriage bond shows X was the applicant but not (unusually?) the groom. Conversely, I can't find the Ann Davenport marriage either, suggesting option 1 is more likely. Adrian B