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ElizabethHerts
10-06-15, 16:26
I have just downloaded the marriage for OH's ancestors Henrie Campe and Honor Howe at St Alban's Abbey in 1655.

Can anyone decipher the column headings? I'm particularly intrigued by the numbers in the first column.

http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbprs%2fhert%2f004946683%2f00263&parentid=gbprs%2fm%2f73129119%2f1&highlights=%22%22

Phoenix
10-06-15, 16:46
I can't read the first column, but it has to be ages, surely?

Others are banns, dates, who held before, witnesses, certificates? to judges and actual marriage date.

Brilliant!

ElizabethHerts
10-06-15, 16:49
I was hoping the first column might be ages, Phoenix!

It's pretty good for 1655, isn't it!

ElizabethHerts
10-06-15, 16:55
Fantastic! We know Henry was 23 at marriage therefore born c. 1632.
He was also from the parish of Knebworth.
One of the witnesses was George Campe.

Then I find this:

First name(s) Henry
Last name Campe
Birth year -
Baptism year 1632
Baptism day 15
Baptism month Jun
Place Knebworth
Father's first name(s) George
Mother's first names(s) -
Country England
Record set Hertfordshire Baptisms

:D:D

On closer inspection the year is 1631!

ElizabethHerts
10-06-15, 17:01
Honor's baptism too:

First name(s) Honor
Last name Howe
Birth year -
Baptism year 1634
Baptism day 15
Baptism month Mar
Place Baldock
Father's first name(s) Jhon
Mother's first names(s) -
Country England
Record set Hertfordshire Baptisms

plus the images!

kiterunner
10-06-15, 17:12
Yes, the first column is Ages, but the A is lost in the fold of the page.

This was during the Interregnum, when they had different rules governing weddings, but something similar to banns were published, and the dates in columns 3 and 4 will be the dates of the banns, then the dates further along seem to be the date when the go-ahead was given for the marriage and the actual marriage date (these seem to be identical for all of them.)

It's hard to make out the column headings because the top is behind a black line and I can't move the image enough to make it clear, but this is as much as I could make out:

Ages
Publicacons of Marriges
Moneths
Marriages ... before Justices
Witnesses their names
Certicats to the Justices
Marridges

kiterunner
10-06-15, 17:13
Here is some information about marriages during the Interregnum:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp715-718

ElizabethHerts
10-06-15, 17:18
Thanks, Kate. That is really helpful and fascinating.