Mariner marriages (General)

by eromdap , Thursday, October 13, 2011, 22:15 (4786 days ago)

I have been researching the Viggors (and Moxley and Bowen) families many of whom were mariners or married mariners from the Chapel Hill/Tintern Abbey area and initially discovered many of their marriages were tricky to find. I have recently discovered they were married in Bristol even though they were baptised locally. Is this an occupational or family tradition?