Other Transcript Commonwealth JP and Registrar Henry Bonner Combe St Nicholas Somerset information

**Details about the register**
Field	Value
Register Type :	Other Transcript
Quality :	Printed
Source :	Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset Vol II (1891) (pp 73-80) Transcript of original MSS in Wells Cathedral Archive stated to be by Arthur J Jewers FSA
Copyright :	Copy found on Internet Archive where stated to be FREE OF COPYRIGHT
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Status of the transcriptions :
Latest date a transcription changed:	20 Apr 2022
Number of entries	136
First actual year of entries	1653
Last actual year of entries	1655
First year in register :	1653
Last year in register:	1656
Register notes :	Jewers says: Henry Bonner a Justice of Peace during the Commonwealth period ... used a small folio... notebook originally belonging ... to Arthur Duck Chancellor of Bath & Wells d 1649... turning ends with it... to enter a list of parish registrars whom he had sworn in; and to record the Marriages he had performed according to the Act of Parliament (14 Aug 1653) establishing Civil Marriages. ...Most of the marriages are stated to have taken place at Justice Bonner's own house (Waterleston in the Parish of Combe St Nicholas), though he appears to have officiated at several other places round that neighbourhood : ... he was certainly a great marrying man, for the list will be found to far exceed the record in the register of the largest parish for the same period. The parishes of the marriage parties are largely within a 10 mile radius of Waterleston, mostly in Somerset, a few in Devon.

**Number of records by decade**
Period Those periods with zero data may span several decades. The first may include pre 1530 records.	Marriages	Total
Transcribed by
1530–1649
1650–1659	136	136
1660–2029

Please note: due to different methods of record counting there may be discrepancies in the record totals on this page

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