Can I find a Marriage Licence

[Kit]

John Drake married Maria Story on 7 December 1805 at Bloomsbury St George by licence.

Is it possible to find the licence anywhere and if so where would I look?

thanks in advance

[ElizabethHerts]

The marriage andimage in Ancestry. Do you have the details?

[ElizabethHerts]

Sorry, on tablet with Benjamin!

[Kit]

I can see the marriage on ancestry but it says by licence. Doesn't that mean there was another document?

[Oakum Picker]

The licences rarely survived but if it was issued by the Bishop of London the allegation & bond should be at the Guildhall Library. I believe the LDS have also filmed some.

[kiterunner]

There are some allegations and bonds on ancestry but I can't see it on there.
FMP has entries for both names in 1805 under "Dioceses of England & Wales" in the "Parish Marriages" section (transcript only) so you could look at those to see if it is that couple and if so, whether it is their allegation and / or bond.

[ElizabethHerts]

Is George Story the witness her father or brother?

[Kit]

Thanks Glen aand Kate. I'll check FMP now.

Elizabeth the witness is Maria's father. There is no brother George, that I have found anyway.

[Kit]

It certainly looks like their information. Right year, just a short time before the wedding. However reading the information of the SoG website it is not going to give me more information that the parish record already on ancestry.

I was hoping it might list John's father's name as I am trying to take the tree back another generation.