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