Marriage Records

A guide for researching marriage records, marriage certificates & the history of marriage in the UK.

Marriage Witness Indexes for United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand

New Zealand Certificates Online

We supply official New Zealand birth, death and marriage certificates at an affordable price with free delivery. We cover all civil registration periods for England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and New Zealand certificates. England: 1837 to 2011. Scotland: 1855 to 2011. We can also supply transcripts of baptisms and marriages back to 1564. Ireland: 1864 to 2010 and also 1845-1863 for Protestant marriages. Northern Ireland: 1922 to 2010. New Zealand: 1848 - 2011 for births and deaths, 1854-2010 for marriages. Australia: Historical certificates only.

Origins.net - Genealogy Research online specializing in British & Irish genealogy search $

Access some of the richest British and Irish genealogy records for under £5 a month including comprehensive British & Irish record collections, dating back to the 13th century; the National Wills Index, pre-1858 English wills and probate documents; downloadable genealogy guides, maps and rare publications.

Parish Register Copies in the Library of the Society of Genealogists

Parishmouse

Historical information about towns, parishes and hamlets within the UK. Parishes have easy reference facts for genealogical research giving the dates of parish registers deposited at the relevant records office together with a listing of the IGI coverage and the coverage of Boyd's and Pallot's marriage indexes. The site also includes historical illustrations and modern day photographs.

Parishmouse | For Family Historians

Parishmouse contains free transcriptions of historical books and parish registers for England and Wales and a large collection of photos of churches and graves and illustrations from the old books.

Registering life events : Directgov - Government, citizens and rights

Order birth, marriage, death, civil partnership, stillbirth or adoption certificates. You can order certain certificates online, by post or telephone through the General Register Office or from the local authority where the event took place.

The General Register Office

Ireland.

The RootsChat Strays Blog!

Hopefully, this site will help people find and destroy ‘Brick Wall’ relatives by finding them in the last place you would possibly look! Whilst searching through parish registers, we all have come across entries that seem out of place. My aim is to create a database of stray baptisms, marriages and burials and have them all listed in one easily searchable place.

The UK BDM Exchange

Pay-for-use site with details of nearly 90,000 Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates since 1837 along with details of Church records of Baptisms, Burials and Church Marriages from before 1837.

The Vicar-General Marriage Licence Index

The Vicar-General Marriage Licence Index is a genealogical finding aid comprising a surname index which lists the 300,000+ people who were issued with marriage licences by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1694 and 1850. The original records which underlie this index are stored at the Lambeth Palace Library although they have also been filmed by the LDS church.

UK BMD

Online searchable indexes of selected birth, marriage & death registrations.

UK Genealogy Archives - Parish Registers Database Search

This database contains transcripts of parish records extracted from many parish registers, and published by various societies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Vicar-General Marriage Licence Index

From the The Society of Genealogists.

WorldVitalRecords.com - UK Marriage List, 1655-1992 $

This database contains more than 29,000 geocoded marriage listings from 1655 - 1992. Here you will find the name of the husband, wife and witness, town, parish, county, and country.