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.