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    Default registry office marriage

    If you married today in a registry office, and you were widowed, you would have to produce the death certificate to prove it. Was this always the case? ie, would someone who married in 1913 in a registry office, stating widower, be required to produce the death certificate of his late wife? If so would the details on this have been recorded anywhere?

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    You would have to satisfy the registrar that you were "free to marry". So if you had been married before you would have to state how that marriage was ended (divorce or death), and may have to have shown a death certificate or some other evidence.

    But (even now) details of that evidence would not be recorded or kept - just the required Notice For Marriage issued by the registrar which, unless anyone objects, is what allows the marriage to go ahead.

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