Espousal Books
November 25th, 2009 at 6:09pm |
Today I came across a new source that I had never heard of before - Espousal books. It seems they were used to record betrothals up until the early seventeenth century. A betrothal was considered to be almost as binding and valid as a marriage. Few such books have survived and I haven’t managed to locate any Gloucestershire examples. Has anyone ever seen one?
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