///I have just located the Marriage Bond of my many times GF William Skitmore on the LDS site and have a question or two, see partial transcription below most of which is a standard form. 1) This is an "application" for his marriage by License? He was married on the day stated 2) The payment of 200 pounds is some kind of penalty? 3) The significance of the date 25 March 1754 4)Who was Wharton Park Dave / //// /Know all Men by these Presents, That We/William Skitmore of the City of Norwich? ? ? ? ? Nov? of ? in the County of Norfolk? /are holden and firmly bound to/ the worshipful Wharton Park Doctor of Laws Commissionary throughout the Archdeaconary of Norwicvh lawfully constituted/in the sum of Two Hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to the said /Wharton Park (?) /or his certain Attorney, Successors or Agents To which payment well and truly to be made, we bind/ /ourselves, and each of us by himself for the whole, our and each of our Heirs Executors and Administrators, firmly by these Presents, Sealed with our Seals, Dated the/ EighteenthDay of October/in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and/Sixty Eight** /The Condition of this Obligation is such, That if hearafter there fall not appear any lawful Let or Impediment, by Reason of any Precontract entered into before the Twenty-Fith of March 1754, /

On 2012/01/05 17:20, David Tennant wrote: > ///I have just located the Marriage Bond of my many times GF William > Skitmore on the LDS site and have a question or two, see partial > transcription below most of which is a standard form. > 1) This is an "application" for his marriage by License? He was married > on the day stated No, it's the "Bond". > 2) The payment of 200 pounds is some kind of penalty? Only if the marriage doesn't take place. > 3) The significance of the date 25 March 1754 That's when Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 ("An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage") came into force. > 4)Who was Wharton Park The agent of the Bishop? -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

Mike and Sheila Thanks Ok . Perhaps you can explain the process. A Bond comes first and then the License? I'm a bit uncertain as to why a license rather than Banns. In my experience of transcribing for FreeREG it seemed to me that most marriages by license occurred when one party was from another Parish. In this particular instance the Bond and PR marriage entry state of this Parish , albeit maybe for a short period This gentleman is my long standing brickwall. I was excited to find this, for me, new piece of evidence but then disappointed that it just says "over 21" which puts me no closer to his actual birth date. Dave (married by Banns!) On 05/01/2012 10:38 AM, Mike Fry wrote: > On 2012/01/05 17:20, David Tennant wrote: > >> ///I have just located the Marriage Bond of my many times GF William >> Skitmore on the LDS site and have a question or two, see partial >> transcription below most of which is a standard form. >> 1) This is an "application" for his marriage by License? He was married >> on the day stated > No, it's the "Bond". > >> 2) The payment of 200 pounds is some kind of penalty? > Only if the marriage doesn't take place. > >> 3) The significance of the date 25 March 1754 > That's when Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 ("An Act for the Better > Preventing of Clandestine Marriage") came into force. > >> 4)Who was Wharton Park > The agent of the Bishop? >