LIST 16 - MARRIAGES - BRIDES NAME ORDER

 
 
There were 1,920 marriages recorded during this decade, which is 
nearly three times as many than in the previous decade.
 
The information recorded for each marriage is as follows:
 date
  church
 bride 
 family name
 Christian name
 year and ship of arrival
 civil status at time of marriage
 age at marriage
 groom 
 family name
 Christian name
 year and ship of arrival
 civil status at time of marriage
 age at marriage
 
The marriages are listed in alphabetical order on the name of the 
bride.
 
With regard to the brides, the identities of 91% have been found. There 
were 1,150 convicts or former convicts (60%) 159 came free (8%) and 
449 were colonial born (23%).
 
There were five duplicate entries, these are marked with an asterix 
(*). 
 
The parish registers only recorded the date of the marriage, the name 
of the groom, the name of the bride, the names of the witnesses 
and the name of the officiating minister. All other information 
for the marriage has been value added either from the shipping indents 
or the early musters. A hint of the civil status of the parties is 
revealed if the marriage was performed "with the consent of the 
Governor" which would indicate that at least one of the parties to 
the marriage was a serving convict.
 
None of the parish registers recorded the age at marriage. The age 
at marriage is therefore a derived figure, calculated mostly from 
ages recorded in shipping indents but also occasionally from ages in 
musters and at burials. Only for the colonial born is it calculated 
from a known date of birth. Therefore they must be treated as an 
estimate at best. Whether Sarah Frederick was eleven years old 
when she married or Catherine Turner was twelve is open to conjecture, 
as indeed the seven other girls who were only thirteen.
 
The ages of 80% of the brides have been calculated, ranging from 13 
to 70 years. It would seem unlikely though that Mary Rowe was nine 
years old at marriage or that Belinda Pitches was eleven.

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