I checked through a family history of my wife's family for the period before 1900 and found 29 marriages with actual dates. The family was located in East Anglia and the men were predominantly employed in farming or at sea.. This was the break down Monday 1 Tuesday 5 Wednesday 2 Thursday 2 Friday 2 Saturday 12 Sunday 5 David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny M Benson" <genes@cedarbank.me.uk> To: <eng-ham-portsmouth-gosport@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:25 AM Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Marriage Day > >> >> Does anybody know which was the most common day people were married. I >> have a family married on a Tuesday. Is that common? > > I don't actually *know* but my guess would be that there was no particular > "most common" day. I have just looked, randomly, at 3 marriages in my > family file and they were on 3 different days - Tuesday, Thursday and > Friday. > > "Weekend" in times past did not have the same connotations as it does now. > It was not the usual thing for people to work a 5 day week and have > Saturday and Sunday off, they would have worked on a Saturday just like > any other day and many would have worked on a Sunday too. I wouldn't be > surprised to find that there is an even spread over all the days from > Monday to Saturday for marriages in the 19th Century and earlier as > whichever day they chose it would have meant taking time off work. It was > not uncommon for people to get married on Christmas Day! > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message