Does anyone have an idea how long you had to resided in the parish to become of this parish at your wedding or rather should i say how long and not be of the parish chris glass ruislip uk

----- Original Message ----- From: "J.C.Christopher Glass" <chrisx@jccglass.fsnet.co.uk> [Does anyone have an idea how long you had to resided in the parish to become of this parish at your wedding or rather should i say how long and not be of the parish] I think it depended a lot on how much the local clergy wanted to look into things. I have a pair of ancestors from Haslingden in Lancashire - They were definitely living there in 1805. That year they travelled 5 miles down the road to Bury to get married and were recorded as being otp. The same day, they had their baby son baptised at Haslingden (presumably after the marriage so he could be recorded with his dad's surname). I know of other cases where the bride and/or groom was described as 'of this parish' (the parents' home parish) in marriage after banns - yet I can show that the neither had not lived there for several years. Geoffers Charlbury, Oxfordshire

Chris Ditto, no time at all, as far as I can see - just that you were living there that day or week. Lyn B

In message <002801c3f374$38da6aa0$526b883e@escom>, "J.C.Christopher Glass" <chrisx@jccglass.fsnet.co.uk> writes >Does anyone have an idea how long you had to resided in the parish >to become of this parish at your wedding >or rather should i say how long and not be of the parish It is a little complicated. If the clergyman was careless and permissive, then 3 weeks. If he was stricter, then a man (especially) would need to have gained a settlement in the parish (by working a full year on contract, serving a full apprenticeship, renting a house and or land worth 10 pounds annually, or serving a parish office for a year)_ > On the whole, a man with less than the second sort of qulification is likely to be referred to as a sojourner - he is living in the parish but 'not one of us' as regards being entitled to poor relief. Women getting married were more likely to be described as 'of this parish' on flimsier evidence of a short stay, since once they were wed, it was the husband's settlement which mattered anyway. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society