Could John Corner have been a soldier and just not available to marry after the calling of the first set of banns? From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: [email protected] GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann McDonald via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 10:46 PM Subject: [G] Banns Repeated > Does anyone know how long Banns were valid for? > > Banns for John Corner and Elizabeth Lee were read on three Sundays > from 25 April 1802 at St Anne's Soho, but there was no marriage. They > were read again on the three Sundays from 25 December 1803, again at > St Anne's, and the couple married there on 15 January 1804. > > There are too many Elizabeth Lees born in Westminster for me to work > out whether or not she was underage which could have been an > impediment the first time. > > Did the marriage have to take place within a certain period of time > following the reading hence them being called again? > > Ann McDonald > Corner ONS > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message