Irish General Register Office records

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Marriages

From 1864 on, any person whose marriage was to be celebrated by a Roman Catholic clergyman was required to have the clergyman fill out a certificate containing the information detailed below, and to forward it within three days of the marriage to the Registrar. In practice, the clergyman simply kept a civil register separate from the church register, filled it in after the ceremony, and forwarded it to the local Registrar when it was full.

The information to be supplied was:

1. the date when married;
2. the names and surnames of each of the parties marrying;
3. their respective ages;
4. their condition (i.e. bachelor, spinster, widow,widower);
5. their rank, profession or occupation;
6. their residences at the time of marriage;
7. the name and surname of the fathers of each of the parties;
8. the rank, profession or occupation of the fathers of each of the parties.

The certificate was to state where the ceremony had been performed, and to be signed by the clergyman, the parties marrying, and two witnesses.

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