Witnesses at weddings mid 1800s
Hello
I have been researching the details from the wedding of my great-great grandparents, at St Pancras, Middlesex in 1860. When I googled the names of the witnesses (not known family members), I was amazed to find the two names - Robert Stone and M Buderidge - had also been the witnesses at another couple's wedding at the same church ten years later.
So now my question is: why would these two people be the witnesses at the weddings of two completely unconnected marriages, each 10 years apart? Did the churches have professional witnesses at this time?
Fingers crossed that someone knows the answer!
Regards, Di