South Australian Marriages
Historical marriages 1836 to 1855
8,500 marriages in South Australia up to 1855 including those before civil registration (mid-1842) and others not registered as well as all registered marriages
Searching the marriages
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Marriage Sources
The major sources of these marriage records are the (Holy) Trinity Church marriage register and the South Australian Marriages Registrations 1842 to 1916, SA Genealogy & Heraldry Soc, 2001. Other church records, journals and newspapers of the day were also used.
Weddings before civil registration commenced and others recorded in church marriage registers but not submitted to the Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages are included. Also, the maiden names of previously married women have often been determined. For more information, see the article on the accuracy of family history sources.