Steve, If you go to the old LDS library catalog and look under Cape Town - civil registrations you will find a film that is the magistrates' record of marriage licenses. I looked at it for years around 1830. I do not believe there is an index for the individual entries. It is interesting because it contains letters from parents giving permission for their minor children to marry. Also, permissions for people to marry without banns. Many licenses were issued on a Saturday, then the couple shows up in a church register as being married the next day, a Sunday. Keith ------ Original Message ------ Received: 02:51 AM EDT, 03/17/2015 From: Steve Hayes via <south-africa@rootsweb.com> To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Cape Colony Marriage Records Does anyone know the status of 19th century Cape Colony marriage records? I seem to recall that there were announcements of intention to marry in the Cape Archives, but these do not seem to be indexed on NAAIRS. There was, however, a card index to them in the archives, but that was several years ago. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message