Hi guys I should strongly suspect that there is a mixed religion marriage involved here. Whilst I find it completely unbelievable, my parents were prevented from marrying for a good 10 years in the late 1930s and early 1940s. They eventually married in 1943. I am the only descendant of my mother's family who is non Catholic. I can only remember one occasion when the families were united - they did virtually everything separately. I still find it amazing - but check out your grandmothers religion you may well find that this is the reason Doug Kyle On 16 Mar 2007 at 18:05, David Allan wrote: From: "David Allan" <davidm.allan@ntlworld.com> To: "Rootsweb - Durham & Northumberland" <DUR-NBL-L@rootsweb.com> Date sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:05:30 -0000 Subject: [DUR-NBL] A question about register office weddings... [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Does anyone know how common register office weddings would have been around 1919? My grandfather George married at Bishop Auckland register office in August that year and he is the only person in my family history who seems to have opted for such a wedding at this time. Given that he was from a Catholic family (although I do not know much about the faith of my grandmother) he would have been aware that he was not getting married in the eyes of God and there would have surely been some who did not look too favourably on the register office marriage. At a time when every other marriage in my family history took place in church, I find this odd. There is no one alive who I can ask for clues to help explain the circumstances. I am just wondering whether anyone else has come across such a situation in the course of their family history research. Kind regards... David Allan. ==== DUR-NBL Mailing List ==== To Post a message to this list send it to, DUR-NBL-L@rootsweb.com ==== DUR-NBL Mailing List ==== List Web Page http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/durhamgenealogy/index.phtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUR-NBL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message