Searching For Marriages Before 1837

[cesdlv]

Help, please. Freebmd will not cover registers before 1837. I am checking a theory that my great great grandfather might have married his first wife on 9th August 1835, almost certainly in London. So how do I do that? I have both their names.

[mxyzptlk]

You could try here

http://joinermarriageindex.co.uk/

[cesdlv]

Thanks; interesting, but, as yet, that site only covers Middlesex for the London area...

Any other suggestions?

[knittynora]

Formal registration of births marriages and deaths only started in 1837. Before that they were just recorded in parish records and availability of these online varies a great deal. The obvious free site is familysearch.org or post names and maybe someone with subscriptions to the main genealogy sites will check for you. Even then there's no guarantee they're online. Otherwise I'm afraid it's a trip to a record office to look them up. Occasionally the church itself has put its records online so maybe check that first. Apologies if I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs!

[cesdlv]

No, I am happy to suck eggs. Thanks for the help, much appreciated. In case anyone with an appropriate subscription is willing to check, I think that my great great grandfather, Frederick Vulliamy MIGHT have married Charlotte Feldewick Crake somewhere in London on 9 August 1835. But I might be badly wrong.

[soapnumpty]

I've just found something on Ancestry. Frederick Vulliamy married Charlotte Crake otherwise Feldwick on 9th Aug 1835 in Upper Chelsea, Middlesex, England. There is also an entry for their banns being read on 7th Aug 1835 at Holy Trinity, Chelsea. His birth date is showing as 1814. Hope this helps.