Someone on this list will be able to help you out, but what came to mind to me is that early records were the list of all who attended the wedding. Sometimes, it was only seven or eight people. IF the father of the groom was alive, he would have attended and his name would generally have been first on the left hand side of the record. The father of the bride was on the right. The mothers were below their husbands, but in a lot of records, the men had died and would not have been there as they were unable to be in attendance. I have the feeling that I am describing very early records and that when folks had to make a record for the state, all that information was on the "official" record, but not necessarily on the record that everyone signed after the ceremony other than if they used the "old" method of recording family names. Cheryl Banks ----- Original Message ----- From: quaker-roots-request@rootsweb.com To: quaker-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:00:41 AM Subject: QUAKER-ROOTS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 38 Today's Topics: 1. Quaker records (Bob Potter) 2. Re: Quaker records (Chris Pitt Lewis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:46:46 +1000 From: Bob Potter <chopendoz@netspace.net.au> Subject: [Q-R] Quaker records To: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <6d3846$3j084s@icp-osb-irony-out3.iinet.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I have been looking at Quaker BMD transcripts for Banbury and am wondering if there is an 'expanded' version. It would be an enormous help to find the name of the father of the groom,for example, on a marriage record. ... or witnesses. Is there an 'expanded' version? and if so how can I access it? Bob Potter in Taasmania ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:34:25 +0100 From: Chris Pitt Lewis <chris@cjpl.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker records To: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <QeO6QYEBrlfRFw1X@cjpl.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed In message <6d3846$3j084s@icp-osb-irony-out3.iinet.net.au>, Bob Potter <chopendoz@netspace.net.au> writes >I have been looking at Quaker BMD transcripts for Banbury >and am wondering if there is an 'expanded' version. >It would be an enormous help to find the name of the father >of the groom,for example, on a marriage record. > ... or witnesses. > >Is there an 'expanded' version? and if so how can I access it? > >Bob Potter in Taasmania > > It depends what transcript you are looking at at the moment! I assume you mean Banbury Monthly Meeting in England. Almost all surviving Quaker registers for England and Wales, pre-1837, are held in class RG6 in the National Archives. Images of these registers are on line at www.thegenealogist.co.uk/bmd . This is a pay per view/subscription site, but worth a subscription if you have any significant number of Quaker ancestors in England or Wales. The registers that contain marriages for Banbury MM are RG6/1332 (covering 1725-1769), RG6/1220 (covering 1662-1737), RG6/1569 (covering 1776-1792) and RG6/8 (covering 1796-1837). All except the last are (usually) copies of the marriage certificate, which typically gives the names of both parents of both parties and at least some of the witnesses, although the parents names may be missing, particularly in earlier years. The 1796-1837 contains abstracts of the certificates, but these still give the parents' names. Births from 1632 to 1775 and a few to 1782, and burials from 1655-1776 are also in RG6/1332, and both from 1776-1794 are also in RG6/1569. From 1795-1837 they are in RG6/34 and 35 respectively, and the original birth and burial notes from which the 1795-1837 registers were compiled are in the Quarterly Meeting registers (RG6/105 to 108). There is also an original register for Sibford Meeting (part of Banbury MM) which is not in the National Archives, and so not at www.thegenealogist.co.uk . The register is at Oxfordshire Record Office, reference NQ1/1/R2/1. It contains births 1685-1784 and burials 1689-1774 (no marriages). In theory, the entries in it should be duplicated in the MM registers, but it is possible that some are not. As far as I know, there is no copy of it online. -- Chris Pitt Lewis ------------------------------ To contact the QUAKER-ROOTS list administrator, send an email to QUAKER-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the QUAKER-ROOTS mailing list, send an email to QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of QUAKER-ROOTS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 38 *******************************************