Begin forwarded message: > From: Ingrid Clausen <ICLAUSEN@paradise.net.nz> > Date: 1 November 2009 7:47:44 AM > To: northumbria@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NMB] parish registers > Reply-To: northumbria@rootsweb.com > > Prior to the beginning of civil registration, > they would have had to marry in the Church of England (unless they > were Jews or Quakers). I should have said that from 1754 until the beginning of civil registration they would have had to marry in the Church of England (unless they were Jews or Quakers).