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   Message 129,701 of 130,039   
   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.   
      
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   Jenny M Benson   
   Wrexham, UK   
      
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