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|    Doug Laidlaw to David Marshall    |
|    Re: Witness to wedding    |
|    30 Jul 18 00:37:18    |
      From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au              On 27/07/18 00:12, David Marshall wrote:       > Out of 275 GRO format marriage certificates I have obtained, dating from       > 1838 to 1963, there is just one which only has a single witness recorded       > (in 1882).       > Was this legal? Does anyone else have an example?       > David              I am pretty sure that only one witness to a wedding is not legal. A       soldier on active service can make a will without the required       formalities, but I have never heard of the same rule applying to marriages.              Did the other witness sign with a mark (a cross)?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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