23 November 1831: George Turner and Mary Hand married on this day 190 years ago!
George Turner and Mary Hand are our many times great-grandparents. They are the parents of Sarah, who married William Webb Wagg, and Jane, who married John Trickett. George and Mary married on 23 November 1831 here in Sydney. The registration shows the marriage was a Catholic ceremony that took place in Parramatta. As they married before civil registrations, it was registered at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. Mary arrived in the Colony as a convict and had not been granted a ticket of leave at the time she and George were intending to marry. So they had to seek permission to marriage. Here's the record showing that George and Mary were granted that permission on 12 October 1831. Six weeks later, they married. You can read an earlier post about George and Mary HERE.