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|    Jenny M Benson to john    |
|    Re: Dispensation for Catholic Marriage    |
|    19 May 22 09:21:30    |
      From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk              On 18/05/2022 16:57, john wrote:       > On 18/05/2022 15:31, Jenny M Benson wrote:       >> When Sara Bloor married Norbert Leyland at St Oswald's Church,       >> Liverpool on 14 August 1920 (image at Ancestry) the priest wrote       >> "disp. obt. <2 words or abbreviations> Rel." under the surnames in the       >> left margin.       >>       >> I know that the first two words mean a Dispensation was obtained, but       >> I'm not sure what the following 2 words are or what the whole phrase       >> means.       >>       >> Can anyone help, please?       >       > Going backwards and forwards in the pages of the register I suspect       > "mixta religio"       >       > Similar dispensations are not uncommon in the register (and it 1922 I       > noticed one where it is written in plain English)              Thank you. That makes sense as she was baptised in the C of E and he RC.              --       Jenny M Benson       Wrexham, UK              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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