Can anyone advise me on marriage licences in 1900 in Ireland please? I have searched for the marriage of my grandparents Elizabeth Bowden and William Moore for many years now without success. I am beginning to think that they may have married on board a ship as my grandmother did go to NZ in 1891 and stayed for several years. I have been advised that to marry on board a ship one must have a marriage licence. Or if they got married in some small church in Ireland Should this be the case, where would I look for a copy of the marriage licence please? Any advise would be very gratefully received. Kindest Regards. Jean McCarthy nee Moore. Staffordshire, England. My own main names of interest: MOORE, (Ireland, Canada & Australia) BOWDEN, (Ireland, New Zealand, Tasmania & Australia) HAWTHORNE. (Ireland and Pennsylvania) In Co Down, Co Armagh & Co Antrim Ireland: McCALLISTER, McAULEY, FLINN, STRAIN, SPRATT, McCLENAGHAN & KENNEDY. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/