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Excerpt from Walthamstow Marriages: From 24 February, 1650, Until the Date of Civil Registration, 1 July, 1837
A note of interest is inserted under dates 16 June and 4 August, 1806, when the marriages took place at Leyton, the Parish Church of Walthamstow being under repair.
Licences begin with an entry on 4 September, 1674, but no attempt has been made in this Monograph to record particulars of marriages by licence because it is obvious that in many entries this detail has been omitted by the recording clerk. 601 cases are specified as by licence, and these are indicated in the printed transcript. It is most desirable to acquire particulars of marriages of Walthamstow persons, by licence, solemnized at other Churches, and such informa tion will be welcomed. The absence of many well-known local names in the following Abstract suggests that marriage elsewhere was a usual custom amongst the gentry.
With the opening of the fifth volume of the Registers (july, 1754) the officiating ministers signed their names. The signatures of 102 clergy are thus recorded. Of these, 6 were Vicars and 16 Curates of Walthamstow and 1 was Alms Priest here. 79 were Visiting or Acting Clergy, of whom 4 were from Leyton; 3 from Wanstead; 1 from Chingford; 8 from London and Westminster; and 22 from various distant parishes (including Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Lincoln, who, on 15 August, 1782, married Eleanor, daughter of Anthony Todd, Esq., to the Rt. Hon. James, Viscount Maitland, by Special Licence, in the dwelling house of her father). 41 signed their names but gave no indication of their parish or incumbency.
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