Normally the licence should state where the marriage was to be performed. Of course a licence does not mean that a marriage actually occurred - eg the licence might be obtained by the poor law overseer to facilitate a marriage and and thus reduce the risk of a pregnant girl becoming the liability to the parish; the groom might then refuse to go through with the marriage. However I have also found elsewhere (in Cheshire) that on occasion there has been no record in the church register of the marriage itself although the couple subsequently lived as man and wife. Alan Swindale > -----Original Message----- > From: cornish-gen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cornish-gen- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joy Langdon via > Sent: 23 November 2014 11:39 > To: lizandtom65@btinternet.com > Cc: CORNISH-GEN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Marriage by licence > > I am not sure what you mean by registered. The marriage will be > recorded in the parish register of the church where the marriage took > place. The only difference to other entries will be that it will say > "by licence" instead of "by banns". > > There was no Civil Registration until 1837. The application for the > licence would be to the Diocesan office. Until 1876 Cornwall was in > the diocese of Exeter. You might find the Bond & Allegation at Devon > Heritage Centre if it survives. This is the form the applicant filled > out swearing there was no impediment to the marriage and the agreement > by another person to pay a fine if the declaration proved false. > Normally, the declaration of banns three times before the marriage in > the bride and groom's parishes allowed objections to be made. The > licence was given to the applicant who passed it the cleric performing > the marriage. A licence was expensive so usually people of higher > status obtained them but soldiers and sailors often married by licence > because they were unable to attend the reading of banns for the > required > 3 weeks prior to the marriage. > > The cathedral of Exeter dedicated to St Peter dates from 1050. > Presumably Holy Trinity was the parish where the marriage you found > took place. > > Joy Langdon > > On Saturday, 22 Nov, 2014 at 22:20, Liz & Tom Thompson via<cornish- > gen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > If a marriage were conducted by licence in Plymouth, or even Cornwall, > in > the 1750s, where would it have been registered? On FamilySearch, I > have > found some at Holy Trinity, Exeter. Today, Holy Trinity is in Wonford, > a > suburb of Exeter, but was that the dedication of the Cathedral at the > time? > Today it seems to be St Peter's. > > Tom Thompson, > St Agnes. > > > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription > information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription > information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message