Thread: Missing Marriage Certificate

I am trying to find the marriage certificate for my great grandfather, George Samuel Rice who married Annie Callan/Callaghan in or around 1884.

George was living in Deptford prior to the time of his marriage but the first child was born in Lee, Lewisham in June 1886.

I have searched the most likely Deptford Parish Records with no success.

I believe Annie to have been from an Irish background, her parents coming over to this country in the mid 1800s. I suspect Annie was also living in Deptford prior to their marriage.

Is it likely that such a marriage would have been at a Catholic church even though George was CofE?

Also does anyone have access to Parish Records in Lee, Lewisham for that period?

Thanks for your help - been trying to sort this one out for ages.

Hi Altna,

Even if the marriage was in a Catholic Church the couple would still have had to had the Union civilly registered. There is nothing on FreeBMD. Perhaps they married in Ireland.

Yours

Victoria

Its a problem isn't it. I have a gt grandmother who married twice. But although I have a very narrow time frame (from May 1879 when her first husband died to Apr 1881 when she appears on census with new husband) I haven't found her marriage in the GRO indexes.



i've checked all the likely churches in Islington (where she was in 1879) and in Greenwich (where she was in 1881). Islington Register Office doesn't do searches for family history so if she was married in the RO I can't find that out.



And of course she could have married anywhere in London. Needle and haystack!

Hi,

It might just be that they never married anyway. They could get away with that quite easily in big conurbations.



I have a few like that, the most easily proved being my great aunt. Her first husband died in 1895 and in 1901 she is shown as wife to another (whose first wife I have found was still alive) with a son and two children from her previous marriage.



In 1912, she married again to another man, using her first husband's surname, so she was obviously not married to the second man, and her son, although registered in his name, was actually illeg. ie great aunt, the informant, told lies. He was called her son at my great aunt's death in 1945 when he was the informant which is what led me backwards down the path.



The intricacies of humanity!

Victoria

Hi Victoria and Jueul



Yes, very frustrating. Feel I must be missing something obvious somewhere! thanks for your replies....



Regards



Heather

Hi Noggin28



Yes, those are the details I have for George Samuel. Any ideas?

Thanks for your interest.