How Does One Know? (General)

by shepway , Monday, June 23, 2014, 20:57 (3807 days ago) @ Jefff

I think we need to get back to basics here. The question raised is where did the marriage take place - was it in Blakeney or Awre?
Earlier I posted information on what buildings were in place at the time and what registers were in use and quite deliberately did not draw any conclusion but to summarise - the only records were Awre Parish Registers and the buildings were Awre Parish Church and Blakeney Chapel.
The next question I ask myself is this: "Did a venue have to be licensed for marriage in 1777?" This took me to a Wikipedia webpage which gives information on the Marriage Act 1753. Having read it through we still cannot be sure we have found the answer to the question. However we find this sentence: "The Act tightened the existing ecclesiastical rules regarding marriage, providing that for a marriage to be valid it had to be performed in a church and after the publication of banns or the obtaining of a licence."
Just to add to the evidence the Parish Register transcript gives us the dates the Banns were called and the earliest marriage recorded in the Blakeney Registers was in 1853. We also know that many Foresters travelled miles to a church to get married.