My 3 x Great-grandparents were married in Saint Peter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon, England on 20 Dec 1835. They were both born in Exeter but were working class so I was surprised when I found their marriage. Mary Ann Venn 1815-1891 and James Dobb 1809-1866. James was a maltster and Mary was in domestic service. Jenny. -----Original Message----- From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 15 September 2017 13:26 To: [email protected] Subject: DEVON Digest, Vol 12, Issue 389 Send DEVON mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists9.rootsweb.ancestry.com/mailman/listinfo/devon or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of DEVON digest..." Please ensure that you change the subject line to the message subject when replying, and PLEASE DELETE ALL THE OTHER DIGEST MESSAGES EXCEPT THE ONE YOU ARE REPLYING TO. Please do not leave it as a DIGEST heading. Thank you Today's Topics: 1. Re: Marriage in cathedral (ANGELA MARKS) 2. Marriage in cathedral ([email protected]) 3. Re: Marriage in cathedral (Denise Hunt) 4. Re: Marriage in cathedral (Adrian Bruce) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:31:54 +0100 (BST) From: ANGELA MARKS <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] Marriage in cathedral Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" My 5 x great grandparents, Samuel Bricknell and Martha Pyle also married in Exeter Cathedral in 1740. Both were from Aylesbeare, confirmed in the Cathedral register, and I've often wondered the same thing. Angela in Exmouth ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 14/09/2017 - 20:05 (GMTDT) To : [email protected] Subject : [DEV] Marriage in cathedral In May 1719, William TAVERNER and Elizabeth ELLIS, both of Moretonhampstead, married in Exeter Cathedral. Can anyone suggest why they may have chosen this venue? Fay Sampson Priestley www.faysampson.co.uk ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:51:47 +0100 From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Subject: [DEV] Marriage in cathedral Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Were any of the participants bapt in the Cathedral ? or had parents with some connection ? -----Original Message----- From: ANGELA MARKS Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] Marriage in cathedral My 5 x great grandparents, Samuel Bricknell and Martha Pyle also married in Exeter Cathedral in 1740. Both were from Aylesbeare, confirmed in the Cathedral register, and I've often wondered the same thing. Angela in Exmouth ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 14/09/2017 - 20:05 (GMTDT) To : [email protected] Subject : [DEV] Marriage in cathedral In May 1719, William TAVERNER and Elizabeth ELLIS, both of Moretonhampstead, married in Exeter Cathedral. Can anyone suggest why they may have chosen this venue? Fay Sampson Priestley www.faysampson.co.uk ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:02:18 +0100 From: Denise Hunt <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] Marriage in cathedral Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" My husbands ancestors marred there too Roger Dart and Temperance Radmore nee Hernaman in 1752 they came from Winkleigh, Roger was a stonemason so I wonder if he worked on the Cathedral. Certainly know of someone back in the 60s who worked for the Bishop of Exeter who was entitled to marry in the Cathedral, which they did. Maybe it was the case then too. Sent from my iPad > On 15 Sep 2017, at 10:31, ANGELA MARKS <[email protected]> wrote: > > My 5 x great grandparents, Samuel Bricknell and Martha Pyle also married in Exeter Cathedral in 1740. Both were from Aylesbeare, confirmed in the Cathedral register, and I've often wondered the same thing. > > Angela in Exmouth > ----Original message---- > From : [email protected] > Date : 14/09/2017 - 20:05 (GMTDT) > To : [email protected] > Subject : [DEV] Marriage in cathedral > > In May 1719, William TAVERNER and Elizabeth ELLIS, both of Moretonhampstead, married in Exeter Cathedral. Can anyone suggest why they may have chosen this venue? > > > Fay Sampson Priestley > > > www.faysampson.co.uk > > > > > ------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon > can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:25:47 +0100 From: Adrian Bruce <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] Marriage in cathedral Message-ID: <[email protected]om> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I have no idea what the answer is for Exeter but it might be useful to consider parallels with other places. Manchester (before it became the Cathedral) was an infamous marriage factory. I understand that there were 2 reasons for this. Firstly, the church was a Collegiate Church with powers over surrounding churches. The Cathedral-to-be demanded a levy from its daughter churches for each marriage that they conducted so that anyone marrying in a daughter church had to pay almost a double fee - one to the daughter church and the other to go to the Collegiate Church. It was therefore cheaper to marry in the Cathedral-to-be. Secondly, anyone wishing to marry quietly could hide in plain sight by disappearing into the queues at the Cathedral-to-be. Whether either of those ideas apply here, I have no idea, but they may be worth pondering. 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