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2. Gretna Green - Wikipedia

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   Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, close to the town of Gretna, [1] on the Scottish side of the English-Scottish border. It is accessed from the A74(M) motorway. [1] Historically Gretna Green was on the Glasgow-Carlisle road, a significant early toll road between England and Scotland.

3. Marriage in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Gretna Green remains a favoured location for marriage because of its romantic associations, with Dumfries and Galloway (the council area containing Gretna Green) the most popular area to get married in Scotland in 2015 (4,395 marriages in Dumfries and Galloway, out of a total of 29,691 marriages throughout Scotland). [17]

4. Wedding capital sees surge in post-Covid marriages - AOL

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   Gretna Green owes its popularity as a wedding venue to its location just across the border from England. The Marriage Act - passed in 1754 in England - outlawed marriages without parental consent ...

5. Richard Rennison - Wikipedia

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   Richard Rennison (29 October 1889 – 5 August 1969) was the last "anvil priest" at Gretna Green, Scotland.Between 1926 and 1940, he performed "irregular marriages" of couples over the anvil at the Old Blacksmith Shop, where the couple proclaimed that they were single and wanted to get married in front of witnesses.

6. Public Records: Marriage licenses, divorces, dissolutions

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7. Public records: marriage licenses - AOL

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   Muskingum County. Dec. 18. Rosco Woody Johnson, Fort Eisenhower, Georgia, and Kayeleen Dawn Ross, Norwich. Dec. 19. Daniel Blair Goetz and Amy Evelyn Peters, Zanesville

8. Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 - Wikipedia

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   The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2.c. 33), also called the Marriage Act 1753, long title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly known as Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, was the first statutory legislation in England and Wales to require a formal ceremony of marriage.

9. Shrigley abduction - Wikipedia

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   The Shrigley abduction was an 1826 British case of a forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley.The couple were married in Gretna Green, Scotland, and travelled to Calais, France, before Turner's father was able to notify the authorities and intervene.