I now realise that the web address I gave in my very recent communication cannot be opened. Here it is again. Hope it works this time. It explains a lot of customs regarding marriage and the birth of children. http://thewitness.org/archive/april2000/marriage.html. There was a time when the marriage ceremony took place in the bride's home, followed by a barn dance. The Church clamped down on that in the early 19th century, mainly because the amount of alcohol consumed even before the ceremony began. From then on it was to be in Church only. Now all that has changed again very recently, with a huge choice of venues available. We need to do a lot more research, to try and discover what it was really like back then. If the above web site fails to open, go back to last Saturday's letter from Jim Leahy who very kindly gave it. Betty G.

Hello, I have a marriage question - I had 4 siblings living in Wilmington, DE in 1854 who were recent immigrants. They all married within days of each other which I found to be unusual. Does anyone have any idea why they got married one right after the other within a 2 week span? Thanks ,Liz -----Original Message----- From: Betty Gough via Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 10:22 AM To: cotipperary@rootsweb.com Subject: [COTIPPERARY] Births out of wedlock I now realise that the web address I gave in my very recent communication cannot be opened. Here it is again. Hope it works this time. It explains a lot of customs regarding marriage and the birth of children. http://thewitness.org/archive/april2000/marriage.html. There was a time when the marriage ceremony took place in the bride's home, followed by a barn dance. The Church clamped down on that in the early 19th century, mainly because the amount of alcohol consumed even before the ceremony began. From then on it was to be in Church only. Now all that has changed again very recently, with a huge choice of venues available. We need to do a lot more research, to try and discover what it was really like back then. If the above web site fails to open, go back to last Saturday's letter from Jim Leahy who very kindly gave it. Betty G. When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. Thank You. All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message