Homers in Dudley

[gilesc]

Tamar Hawkes granddaughter is Tamar Homer.b 1777. If Linell has PR for OMH maybe grand daughter Tamar's christening is there. That would be a source for me.
A general question, Were NC 's not allowed to hold marriages in their meeting houses at this time?
Carolyn

Hello again,
I am puzzled and I hope you have the patience to help me again.
You have written " did Tamar re marry", I think you may have picked up on something that I definately haven't.
Am I missing something?
Regards
Carolyn.

with regards to this birth it might be a different tamar will have to see if some one has the parish register for the old meeting house, Linell do you have it ?

did tamar remarry ?


MARY HOMER
Christening: 30 JAN 1756 Old Mtg House-Nc, Dudley, Worcester,

JOSEPH HOMER
TAMAR

[peterd]

hi carolyn if you put a copy of you original intrest in the bc area, we will run from there as this is really intro pete

[mallosa]

As Linell says, I do have 'The old non-parochial registers of Dudley'
Without spending time looking to see what you already have, I'll post what I have found ....

Old Meeting House

BAPTISMS, 1743-1772

1743:
Tamar dau of Benjamin and Tamar Homer of Dudley bap 20th Feb born 7th Feb
(Benjamin Homer married Tamar Hawkes Dec 30th 1734 at Dudley)

1746:
Thomas son of Benjamin and Tamar Homer of Dudley bap 26th Jun

1748:
John son of Benjamin and Tamar Homer of Dudley bap 7th Mar

1756:
Mary dau of Joseph and Tamar Homer of Dudley bap 30th Jan

[linell]

Thanks for that San, Carolyn will be pleased. As regards the Baptists Carolyn, they were 'Named in the Register' at Birth and then Baptised as Adults. Only Baptisms and Funerals were allowed in Non Conformist Churches, Marriages were a legal union run by the state and had to be performed in a Parish Church, here are some notes on the why's and wherefore's.

Between 1754 and 1837 the only places to legally marry were in a parish (C
of E) church, a Jewish synagoge or a Quaker Meeting House. That was the
only period when Non-Conformist marriages (also RC) ones were not legal.
However that did not stop them taking place, although if the couple were
worried about the legitimacy of any children then they also married in the
parish church.

After 1837 it became legal for people to be married in any licensed
premises, and while this covered most C of E churches it also included NC
and RC churches or chapels.

The only difference being that sometimes these churches or chapels did not
have the wish (numbers of marriages) to have their own "Authorised person"
(that meant a person -minister or priest - who was authorised to register
the marriage) or Register. In that case the local Registrar would attend
the marriage, which was conducted by the minister of the chapel, BUT
*registered" by the Registrar, and therefore appears in the same register as
that used for civil marriages in the Register Office itself. The
certificate will be signed by both the person who conducted the marriage,
and the Registrar who was present to legalise it.

Linell.

[gilesc]

hi carolyn if you put a copy of you original intrest in the bc area, we will run from there as this is really intro pete

I have now done this. I've posted my original inquiry under discussion and I'm hoping this is what oyu meant me to do. i'm useless with message boards really but everyone is patient and I seem to get there in the end.

Carolyn.

[MarkCDodd]

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