Nottinghamshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Nottinghamshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022.Original data: Parish Registers for Nottinghamshire. Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England: Nottinghamshire Archives.
About Nottinghamshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937
General collection information
This collection includes Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns between 1754 and 1937 from the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England.
Parish records—primarily baptisms, marriages, and burials—were the first sets of vital records kept. Before civil registration began in 1837, key events in a person's life were typically recorded by the church, rather than the government. Dating back to the 16th century, parish records have become some of the longest running records available.
Using this collection
This collection may include the following details:
Name
Marriage date
Sex assigned at birth
Age at marriage
Names of parents
Spouse's name
Spouse's age at marriage
Names of spouse's parents
Names of witnesses
Parish name
Parish records are some of the best resources you can use in tracing your family roots. These records were taken by church officials to mark important milestones in people’s lives. They often include information about other family members such as parents, making it easy to jump back an additional generation in your family tree with a single record.
Banns were church announcements of a couple's intention to get married. This gave time for the parish to submit objections. Banns may also list whether a person had been previously married.
Collection in context
When Henry VIII established the Church of England, he mandated parishes to keep handwritten records of baptisms, marriages, and burials. Beginning in 1598, clergy were required to send copies of their parish registers to the bishop of their diocese. These copies are known as Bishop's Transcripts and are useful in cases where original records are unreadable or no longer exist.
The Lord Hardwicke Marriage Act of 1753 established a separate register for marriages and required that marriages be performed only in Anglican churches.
In 1812, George Rose's Act called for pre-printed registers to be used for separate baptism, marriage, and burial registers as a way of standardising records.