CD06 Chilvers Coton Marriages 1754 to 1901

Marriage transcriptions for the Church of England parish of Chilvers Coton including all marriages conducted at the church from Lady Day 1754 through to census day 1901.

In 1754 the Church of England introduced separate registers for the recording of marriages.  These required names of groom, bride, their parishes of abode plus their signatures, or marks, and those of two witnesses.  In 1837, after the introduction of civil registration, the format of marriage records changed to show age, occupation, address and father of groom and of bride. All this information, along with date of the marriage and whether it was by banns or by licence, is transcribed and provided as an easily searched spreadsheet presented in a format viewed with freely available Adobe Reader.

The data runs from 25 March 1754 to census night in spring 1901 thus enabling anyone to find marriages in the parish for people they find on the census, or to use a marriage from this CD to track a couple on the various censuses. 

To help those with surnames that suffer a multitude of spellings, the data is presented in two tables.  One is in order of surname of the grooms, the other in order of surname of the brides.  As ever with family history research, the advice is to also look for the less obvious spelling variations (did they drop or gain an H at beginning of their name, for example).