Month: March 2019

11 Mar, 2019

New member – Fiona Pegrum

Northern Ireland based Fiona has an MSc in Genealogical, Paleographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde. Her special area of interest is in 19th century North West Ireland, Irish church ministers and emigration and she is shortly to publish a local history book on Presbyterianism. She is also researching and writing on the local Church […]

The Wedding Register
1 Mar, 2019

Civil Marriage Ceremonies From 1837

According to the latest available figures from the Office for National Statistics, civil marriages accounted for almost three-quarters of marriages celebrated in England and Wales in 2015. Yet it was only in the late twentieth century that civil marriage overtook religious marriage as the most popular form of marriage, and before the start of the […]