Marriage Licenses

Marriage Bonds and Allegations
Part 1 1374-1531
Part 2 1567-1630
Part 3 1630-1714
Part 4 1715-1839

The indices to marriage bonds and allegations are in four parts:

Part 1 is taken from the list of marriage licences and marriage dispensations taken from the Registers of the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Durham,and the Archdeacon of Richmond, covering the period 1374-1531, and published in Volume 45 of the Publications of the Surtees Society. 

Part 2 is taken from the so-called*  Paver's Marriage Licences, parts 1-17 [1567-1630], in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vols. 7, 9-14, 16-17 & 20, and  'A consolidated Index to Paver's Marriage Licences (1567-1630)', printed in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. The coverage of each volume is as follows:

YAJ Vol 7: 1567-1592
YAJ Vol 9: 1592-1595, 1595-1597
YAJ Vol 10: 1597-1599, 1599-1602, 1602-1604
YAJ Vol 11: 1604-1609
YAJ Vol 12: 1609-1610, 1610-1612, 1612-1613, 1613-1614
YAJ Vol 13: 1614-1615
YAJ Vol 14: 1615-1617, 1617-1620
YAJ Vol 16: 1622- 1625
YAJ Vol 17: 1626-1628
YAJ Vol 20: 1628-1630

* The reason I use the expression 'so-called' in Part 2 is because the manuscripts of William Paver contain indices to the bonds and allegations supporting the application for a marriage license, not to the marriage licences themselves. Marriage licences were never kept by the Diocesan Registry, and the licences which were handed to the couple have rarely survived. Paver made his manuscript from the original registers of grants of licences in the Diocesan registry, while he was a Deputy Registrar. The original registers from which he made his manuscript have never never been recovered since he removed them, and only one register, for the years 1618-1620, appears to have escaped his clutches.

Part 3 is taken from Paver's Marriage Licences, vols. 1-3 1630-1644, 1660-1714: Yorkshire Archaeological Society record series, vols. 40, 43 & 46. The coverage of each volume is as follows:

YASRS Vol 40: 1630-1644
YASRS Vol 43: 1660-1674
YASRS Vol 46: 1674-1714

The bonds and allegations that were made at the time of application for a marriage licence have survived only from 1660.

Part 4 covers the period from 1715-1839, and has been taken from the published indexes in the following series:

An Index to the Archbishop of York's Marriage Bonds and Allegations
1830-1839 (Borthwick List and Index 3, 1986);
1820-1829 (Borthwick List and Index 4, 1987);
1810-1819 (Borthwick List and Index 5, 1988);
1800-1809 (Borthwick List and Index 6, 1989);
1790-1799 (Borthwick List and Index 7, 1990);
1780-1789 (Borthwick List and Index 9, 1991);
1765-1779 (Borthwick List and Index 10, 1993);
1750-1764 (Borthwick List and Index 13, 1994);
1735-1749 (Borthwick List and Index 15, 1996);
1715-1734 (Borthwick List and Index 23, 1999);
1690-1714 (Borthwick List and Index 29, 2001);
1660-1689 (Borthwick List and Index 34, 2003)

The first 4 volumes were compiled by E.B. and W.R.Newsome, the next 5 volumes by E.B.Newsome, and the last 3 by P.W.G. Chilman                 

PART 1 1374-1531
Groom
Bride


Surname
Forename
Parish
Surname
Forename
Parish
Place of Marriage
Year
Hawkins
John

Richardson
Elizabeth
Bubwith

1444
Pocklington
Henry

Conyngworth
Margaret

Bubwith
1501

PART 2  1567-1630
Akeroyd
Henry, gent
Folkerthorpe
Staveley
Ellen
Thormanby
Thormanby
1605
Askrith
George
Bubwith
Doleman
Anne
Hutton-Bushell
either place
1619
Battell
John
Spaldington
Blanchard
Agnes, Spr
Seaton Ross
Bubwith or Seaton
1602
Baxter
John
Hirst
Harrison
Mary
Gribthorpe

1596
Bethel
William
Ellerton
Akeroyd
Elizabeth,  widow
Fogathorpe
Bubwith or Ellerton
1593
Bosville
Roger
Bubwith
Bradley
Dorothy
Bawtry
Bawtry
1617
Boswell
William
Bubwith
Thomlinson
Elizabeth
Donington
either place
1613
Bynkes
John
Breighton
Smith
Elizabeth
Eastrington
Bubwith
1619
Clerk
Robert

Brabbes
Elizabeth
Bubwith
Bubwith
1619
Conyers
Gregory, gent

Williamson
Ann, widow
Aughton
Aughton or Bubwith
1596
Escrigg
George
Breighton
Pricket
Margaret, widow
Everingham
Bubwith
1604
Foxcroft
Henry
Leeds
Coldcole
Elizabeth
Bubwith
Bubwith
1611
Gunby
John
Bubwith
Carlin
Margaret
Holme on Spaldingmoor
either place
1625
Harvey
Benjamin
Skipwith
Rock
Mary
Bubwith
Bubwith
1612
Leaper
John

Leaper
Mary, widow
Bubwith
Bubwith
1619
Leppington
John
Howden
Gibson
Ann
Bubwith
either place
1626
Madson
Richard

Brabbs
Ann
Bubwith
Bubwith
1628
Margison
Thomas
Bubwith
Nodell
Elizabeth
Harswell
either place
1600
Meadley
Thomas
Bubwith
Clerk
Elizabeth
St. Helen, Stonegate, York
either place
1625
Middleton
Bryan
Bubwith
Wilson
Isabel
East Cottingwith
either place
1628
Orme
Robert, esq.
Wiston
Vavasour
Frances
Spaldington
either place
1625
Pocklington
John
Ellerton
Carr
Isabel
Gunby

1594
Ray
Thomas

Sunderland
Margaret
Bubwith
Bubwith
1627
Rocke
John
Bubwith
Thorpe
Alice, widow
Howden
Bubwith
1613
Shepherd
William

Harslewood
Ellen
Bubwith
Bubwith
1593
Sherlock
Oswald
Whitgift
Harrison
Ann
Bubwith
either place
1602
Smith
Anthony
Bubwith
Bond
Elizabeth
St. Sampson, York
either place
1624
Smyth
John
Breighton
Watkinson
Anne
Hemingbrough
Bubwith or Hemingbrough
1619
Storey
Thomas

Coates
Isabel
Barnby
Bubwith
1595
Thorpe
William
Owthorne
Vavasour
Elizabeth
Bubwith
either place
1613
Waud
William
Drax
Atkinson
Catherine, widow
Willitoft
St Sampson's, York
1598
Westoby
John

Leaper
Mary
Bubwith
Bubwith
1623
Whittingham
Godfrey, gent
Goolner
Vavasour
Isabel
Spaldington
Aughton or Spaldington
1628