When you got married it had to be by the law of the land to have legitimate
heirs and the marriage to have legal standing.
You could get married after Banns being called on 3 Sundays in church and
usually put up in a notice somewhere.
You could also get a licence to marry, sometimes from the civil authorities and
sometimes from a Bishop
Or other empowered person in the church denomination you were to be married in.
This was so you didn't have to wait
The 3 Sundays to call banns or so you could marry "privately" without your name
going up on the notice board
Or Banns being called in Church. The civil authorities would licence the
Priests etc of the churches to make the marriages
They carried out legal and so they could also give a licence to circumvent the
Banns process.
Civil celebrants and religious ministers were/are all licenced by the
Colony/State in those days.
Most states had different marriage laws to England. Scotland has a different
legal system to England but its marriages
Legal ones , were recognised in England
This is from Vic BDM site now
Marriages can be performed by a registered civil marriage celebrant or an
authorised minister of religion.
You can find the register of civil marriage celebrants and religious ministers
(External link) at the Federal Attorney-General's Department.
In Victoria, the Victorian Marriage Registry offers civil marriage services.
Authorised registrars in some regional courts can also offer civil marriage
services. Contact your local court for further details.
One of my wife's rellies Joseph Withers got into a spot of bother with the
authorities in Colonial WA for bending the rules a bit.
Although he said he was doing the correct thing.
Mal
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From: dps-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dps-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Rob Nelson, Perth WA
Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2016 12:30 PM
To: ALL
Subject: [dps-chat] What is a marriage BY SPECIAL LICENSE ???
G'day CATHY & MARG, our resident specialists for matters ecclesiastical ...
Troving through the Bendigo Advertiser between 1860 and 1890 I've come across
some wonderful treasures pertaining to matters HELLIER, but would like some
explanation for the following:
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Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), Monday 6 November 1865, page 2
MARRIAGE.
On the 4th inst., by special license, at the Church of England, by the Rev Mr
Croxton, Mr Thomas Hellier, of Bristol, to Ellen, only daughter of Mr John
O'Connor, of London.
<----
I wonder if either of you gals (or others among the general ALL) could expand
on the meaning of a special license ... was it a mixed religious wedding OR was
it a spin-off denomination that needed the official stamp from the CofE, or
something quite different?
Cheers and thanks in anticipation, ROB!
rnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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