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Marriage under Cromwell

Barwicker No.117
March 2015


In 1656, when there was no King on the throne and the Church of England was, in effect, in suspension, life had to continue but in a different way from normal. The pre-civil war parish register in Barwick had been lost during the war but records of births and records were entered into a new register. However, the marriage ceremony and the publication of banns seems to have taken a different, more legally phrased, form. Here is what the register recorded about one marriage:

Robert Bolland of Barmebow, in the parish of Barwick in Elmett, Iynen-webster, on the one partye, and Anne Wardrop of the same town and parish, single woman, on the other party, being (as before), being first openly published by the Register of the saide Parish three severall Markett dayes in 3 severall weekes at the Markett Crosse of Weatherby, in the said County, to witt, on the 4th, the 11th and 25th dayes of September last past, 1656, according to the lait Act of Parliamt made touching Marriages, were married together the first day of October in the yeare of our lord 1656, in the p'sence of Francis Kendall and John Wright of the parish of Whitchurch and other witnesses. Before me,

JOHN SAVILE


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