On 19/12/2015 14:18, Richard Smith wrote: > On 19/12/15 13:16, David Marshall wrote: >> An ancestor I am researching was married in St George's Hanover Square >> on 8th February 1820. The immediately preceding entry in the register >> (on the same day) is for the marriage of Henry Paget to Elenora Campbell >> with the annotation that the groom is "commonly called the Earl of >> Uxbridge". According to Wikipedia Henry Paget, the 2nd Earl of Uxbridge >> and hero of Waterloo, was created Marquess of Anglesey in 1815. >> Purely out of curiosity, can anyone suggest why the old title was used >> in the register? > > The Henry Paget who married Eleanora Campbell was the eldest son of the > Henry Paget of Waterloo fame and who was made Marquis of Anglesey. It > is normal for the eldest son of a peer to use a "courtesy title", that > is, to adopt the father's second highest title. When the 1st Earl died > in 1812, his son (Eleanor's father-in-law) became the 2nd Earl and his > son would have assumed the courtesy title Baron Paget. When the 2nd > Earl was elevated to marquis in 1815, his son assumed the courtesy title > Earl of Uxbridge. This is how he is recorded in the marriage in 1820. > When his eldest son was born, that son would have taken the courtesy > title Baron Paget, as his grandfather's third highest title. > > Richard Thanks for that - its obvious when you realise that this was the next generation, but I didn't spot that at the time as no ages are recorded in the register at this date. David