I've just found this https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Marriage_Allegations,_Bonds_and_Licences_in_England_and_Wales Explains all I think. Dave On 05/01/2012 11:18 AM, David Tennant wrote: > 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? >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >