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"Cert to <name>" in marriage register

  • 29-08-2018 2:16pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭


    Throughout marriage registers for Moycullen, I find some lines where instead of a marriage, the entry is something like:

    "Cert to Roger Mulkeran... Ballinahally"

    Can anyone explain what this is about?


    This snippet has shows 3 examples:
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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Is the first word contracto or some other similar Latin meaning a marriage was contracted between the two parties concerned?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭Earnest


    The items seem to have a price. Could it be a certificate that the priest has checked the register to make sure X was not married already, or X had been baptised?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Could the OP provide a link to the source please?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭yaledo


    Hermy wrote: »
    Could the OP provide a link to the source please?

    Certainly: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634193#page/130
    Earnest wrote:
    The items seem to have a price. Could it be a certificate that the priest has checked the register to make sure X was not married already, or X had been baptised?

    Earnest, I've a feeling you're right. Usually, when a couple from different parishes would get married, it would be in the bride's parish. So maybe the prospective husband needed a cert from this home parish to say he was free to marry.
    Notice that in each case here, the cert is given with a mans name.


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