Middle station of life...

[Sue from Southend]

I'm looking at a marriage record dated July 1837. Under Rank or Profession the curate has written "Middle station of life" and under Father's name "None surviving". Both groom and bride are widowed.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/47188_263021009499_1664-00009?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=bfdc76043354dc4ad85a9238982205e1&pId=921624435

The following record states under profession "Humble station of life"


I assume that the curate hadn't quite got the hang of this pesky new system!


Absolutely no help to me though...:d

[Olde Crone]

Humble station of life, I love it and shall put that as my occupation next time I have to fill in a nosey form.

OC

[Janet]

I love this. :D

Thanks, Sue.

[Kit]

I love it. If you scroll through the next few pages he is starting to get the hang of it.

[Merry]

Interesting how everyone seems to have exactly the same handwriting!!

[ElizabethHerts]

It's very frustrating for researchers that he has written "Deceased" for the fathers' names so many times!

[Sue from Southend]

I've just realised that the record I'm interested in is No1 in the register and therefore probably the first time the parish had used the new records so I might let them off!

But as you say Elizabeth it's so frustrating as I'm trying work out if the Piercy bride and Warren witness are related to my Piercys and Warrens who intermarried around that time.

[Phoenix]

Well, I'm frankly jealous. One of the Norfolk rectors didn'teven bother to get the hang of things, and just put the old information in the new register. He appears to have thought that fathers were of no concern to him unless a woman looked obviously underage.