Marriage Phelps & Watkins (Register Office) (Parish Records)

by cmfenton , Ferndown, Dorset, Sunday, August 10, 2014, 19:00 (3752 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

I don't know over what sort of period it has occured, but many weddings took place in non-conformist chapels in the presence of a local registrar (as well as the local minister) and are consequently recorded as 'taking place' at the Register Office.

For example in my parents' case (married in 1945), it is clear on the certificate, signed by the deputy registrar and Baptist minister, that the ceremony took place at the Baptist Chapel even though the BMD record says Register Office.