DEATH marriages in Dartford, before 1630
Looking in detail at the parish registers of Dartford, Kent, they disclose a lot of information about the Death family living there in the period 1561- 1624. However, marriages are rather obviously missing.
Recently I have been working on some other families in Dartford in the same general period and have found that marriages for these families are not recorded in the parish registers - it is reasonable to expect some marriages at least took place in Dartford. These families, like the Death family, were in the gentry or yeoman class.Suspecting something odd was happening, I picked a couple of families at random who semed to be neither gentry nor yeoman, I found expected marriages for these families were included in the Dartford parish registers. My sample is too small to be the basis for firm conclusions but it does seem as if there may be some specific reason why marriages for families like the Death family are not being found in the Dartford registers.
I have had a look at most of the parishes around Dartford without finding any of the 'missing' marriages, but for many of these parishes the registers from the sixteenth century have not survived.
I wondered if perhaps marriages by licence were not being recorded. I understand that marriage licence allegations/bonds for neither the Deanery of Shoreham nor the Diocese of Rochester have survived from this period, although I think the Canterbury licences are recorded. Has anyone tried to crck this problem?
Ian.
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Eugene Beckius 3/06/01
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Ian Wallace 3/06/01
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Ian Wallace 3/07/01
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Ian Wallace 3/10/01
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