Just looking at my maternal grandparents' wedding certificate (William >Weightman to Mary Haley, 1927-10-1, Bedlington, Northumberland [St. >Cuthberts]).
It's the usual "I, ... do hereby certify that this is a true copy of the >Entry No ... in the Register Book of Marriages of the said Church.",
although it _is_ dated the same day, i. e. it isn't a copy made later.
I notice the signatures are different writing to both that elsewhere on
the copy and to each other, so it looks likely Grandma and Granddad (and
the Witnesses - they're different too) signed it.
I just wondered if it was common for the couple to sign both the
register and at least one of the copies. (I'm guessing it was the copy
for their own use, as I have it - the actual piece of paper I mean -
from among Grandma's papers.)
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:54:37 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
Just looking at my maternal grandparents' wedding certificate (William
Weightman to Mary Haley, 1927-10-1, Bedlington, Northumberland [St.
Cuthberts]).
It's the usual "I, ... do hereby certify that this is a true copy of the
Entry No ... in the Register Book of Marriages of the said Church.",
although it _is_ dated the same day, i. e. it isn't a copy made later.
I notice the signatures are different writing to both that elsewhere on
the copy and to each other, so it looks likely Grandma and Granddad (and
the Witnesses - they're different too) signed it.
I just wondered if it was common for the couple to sign both the
register and at least one of the copies. (I'm guessing it was the copy
for their own use, as I have it - the actual piece of paper I mean -
from among Grandma's papers.)
I'm not all that surprised that it may happen if the "copies" are
ready to hand and otherwise completed - and there's no pressure of
time for any of the parties,
It did not happen at my wedding, nor at either wedding of someone I
asked (who married in Spain and then again in England, because the
English groom wanted paper-work in his own language and the cost of a
cicil wedding was comparable with that of a certified translation).
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