24 March 1733: Several couples ensure their marriage licences are Latin
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
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Marriage licences in Latin going out of date tomorrow, they being appointed by a late act of parliament to be in English. Several people take the opportunity of marrying, as Mr John Smith, who owns Abraham Haigh’s farm at Hill Top, and Mrs Haigh of Storth, nigh Huddersfield, John Ellis of Silkston, and Lydia, the daughter of Mr John Scott.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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Marriage licences in Latin going out of date tomorrow, they being appointed by a late act of parliament to be in English. Several people take the opportunity of marrying, as Mr. John Smith, who owns Abraham Haigh’s farm at Hill Top, and Mrs. Haigh of Storth, nigh Huddersfield, John Ellis of Silkston, and Lydia, the daughter of Mr. John Scott.
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- 📌Barnsley (23)
· - 📌Dodworth (17) ·
- English language (7) ·
- Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
- 📌Huddersfield (29) ·
- Latin (9) ·
- Marriage (13) ·
- Parliament of Great Britain (4) ·
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