In a message dated 26/09/2006 in eng-shropshire-plus-request@rootsweb.com Kathy writes: I was always under the impression that it was usual for them to marry at Bride's residential area It was the way you worded the question that threw up another question to which I do not know the answer but relates strongly to what you want to know. If a girl went 'into service' her address changed to the place where she was living which was that of her employer. So - if she had lived and worked there for longer than the 15 days residential qualification legally necessary she could be married in the Parish Church associated with that place. My question is - how long did she have to live away from the place where she was born, christened, where her parents lived - ie the place which could be considered to be her 'home Church' - before she lost the residential qualification and could no longer be married there until she had re-established it as her home church by living in the parish for 15 days? Cyril