> Whilst researching John FISHER of Hayes-park Middx I came across this Boyds Marriage Index marriage on findmypast. > > In 1674 John FISHER married Mary CHILD at St Matthew Friday Street. > > This has presented me with an anomaly as St Matthew on Friday Street was burnt down in 1666 during the Great Fire of London. It was apparently not rebuilt until 1682. > > Can anyone help with where this marriage would have taken place please?. Most of the burnt churches were at least temporarily combined with other neighbouring parishes, and, in theory at least, the clergy of the burnt church did the CMB for their own flock but in the adjacent church, keeping up their own registers until such time as they had again a church to put them in. St Matthew was combine with St Peter Cheapside, in this case permanently, and both, eventually with - I think, St Vedast Fost Lane. Churches were pretty thick on the ground in the City, so it was only a short move for the parishioners. In a few cases, the burnt church was never rebuilt and the two parishes simply combined -and presumably when the original clergy died off, the staffing was rationalised. Cheapside was a Market. Cheapside was a street too. Gentry families often found it convenient to marry in the City -it was easier for guests from different areas to get to. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society