Fee
No no no, although at times being regarded as dangerous subversives,
Quaker marriages WERE legally valid in this period. The act was to stamp
out dodgy marriages not properly recorded and the Quakers (and Jews) were
the only denominations apart from Anglicans (and, being the established
church, they could be told what to do) whose record keeping was
sufficiently rigorous to be allowed to continue.
Allen
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:14:08 -0000, Caliandris <caliandris(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Hi there
As a Quaker, I know that the authorities didn't regard Quaker
marriage
as valid for centuries, and being a Quaker was a bar to public office,
going to university,joining any of the services - but people marrying in
the Quaker meeting house DID regard themelves as married, and lived
together, and the women did take the husband's surname.
Fee
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