From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 20:29:24 +0100, Tony Proctor   
    wrote:   
      
   >A friend asked me to trace a wedding that occurred during the 1950s between a   
   man in England and a woman in the Village of Cava de Tirreni, Campania,   
   >Italy. This marriage took place by proxy -- which I have never come across   
   before -- with each party being represented in the other country by a   
   >family member.   
   >   
   >I can find no trace of the marriage in the English BMD, or the Italian BMD   
   available on Ancestry, and wondered if anyone knows whether they might have   
   >had a different method of recording.   
   >   
   The marriage would not be lawful in England unless both partners were   
   domiciled in states which allowed such marriages; it would then be a   
   matter of recognition of a lawful foreign marriage. That should mean   
   there is no trace in the records for England and Wales. If the English   
   man was _domiciled_ in a state which recognised proxy marriages then   
   there might be an entry in the records of marriages abroad.   
   https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/living-together-marriag   
   -and-civil-partnership/getting-married/   
      
   Note that there is no "United Kingdom Law" which the CAB ought to know   
   - each of the three jurisdictions in the UK has its own laws; the   
   matter would get more complicated had they later become domiciled in   
   Scotland before 2006.   
      
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