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From: Cliff Debney <>
Subject: Re: Lost Marriage
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:28:43 +0100
References: <3B43AC66.56BA309D@xtra.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3B43AC66.56BA309D@xtra.co.nz>


Hello Sue

This sounds like a missing entry. Have you tried contacting the
Registrar at the Wantage Registration Office as firstly the quarterly
copy may not have reached the Registrar General in time for entry or
even not at all.

The problem is that marriages are not in one book as each church
registered for marriages has its own - so if they are non conformists
with their own book you will need to tell the Registrar which church the
marriage was held in.

The Wantage and Grove churches/chapels, other than the C of E, are:

Wantage Baptist, founded 1648, Grove Baptist Chapel founded 1837 (not
known if either had/have a marriage register book); Wantage Independent
founded 1730 (later Congregational now United Reformed Church); Wantage
Wesleyan founded early 1800's (now Methodist).

The Registry Office address is Civic Centre, Portway, Wantage, Oxon
OX12 9BX. [Note Wantage transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974]

Hope this helps; good hunting.

>I am hoping someone can help me with a marriage that just refuses to be
>found.
>
>George LEACH/LEECH married Rosa Jane CLARK(E) c1878/9, probably in the
>Grove, Wantage area. The marriage does not appear on the GRO.

>I have also searched at the BRK CRO while on a visit there last Xmas. I
>have checked Grove which is where I expected to find the marriage and
>also Childrey, Wantage, West Hanney and East Challow.
>Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Regards
>Sue Sharman
>Picton, NZ
>
>
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Cliff Debney

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