Where could I find the marriage certificate of my parents who married at St Jozef Church Deurne Netherlands either in Feb 1945 or Feb 1946?
I have been unable to locate it and wondered if they had been released yet to the public?
I would appreciate any help.
Regards Mary-Anne
In England and other English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand, a marriage can take place in a church with a priest or pastor as the legal marriage celebrant.
In the Netherlands, civil registration is only possible for the registrar of BMD [de ambtenaar van de burgelijke stand ] and marriage in 1945 -1946 usually took place in the city hall. The marriage was - if one was a Catholic and certainly still in those years - later on consecrated in the church. In your example in the St. Jozef parish church in Deurne. Possibly the bride or groom lived in that parish? This was then written in the marriage register of this parish church. Note: sometimes there may be a time lag between the legal marriage and the church celebration. The church wedding may have been on the same day as the legal marriage, ...or weeks or even months later.
The parish records may still be in the parish archive or perhaps transferred to a central place or the episcopal archive?
Permission for consultation will have to be requested as a parish archive is not public within the meaning of the law.
Church registration: due to the merger of the different parishes in the municipality of Deurne, there is now one large parish in Deurne >>> Sint Willibrord in Deurne, of which Rev. Father Paul Janssen is the parish priest. https://www.heiligewillibrorddeurne.nl/ Fr Janssen and his pastoral team take care of all the-once stand-alone parishes of which the Sint Jozefparochie was once also one. You could try...hopefully someone in the pastoral team is able to help you.
Mary-Anne
zei op 1 mei 2021 om 09:45
Hi Helena,
Thank you very much for all this information.
It makes things a lot clearer for me.
I will follow these links up as soon as possible.
Very much appreciated.
Mary-Anne
Helena
zei op 2 mei 2021 om 02:31
Note: In parish registers, sometimes (little) mistakes may have been made. But one does not know what else a parish priest may have written down..until you can see the entries.
Many years ago - while I was visiting my old parish church in a nearby village of Deurne - I asked the parish priest for copies of my own baptismal- and our marriage record in the Roman Catholic Church. The parish priest was very helpful. At that time these registers were still present in the archives of that church. In the baptismal register the first names of my parents were not quite corectly written down. In the marriage register , only the date, the names of the two of us, the names of our parents and the names of the two witnesses were noted, signed by the then parish priest. In my baptismal record the parish priest had already noted the name of my husband and the date of our marriage so many years later. There were only 3 (chuch) marriages that year in this small village and since I have a copy of the whole page I can see that one couple has some more info in the last column: the place and date of the groom's baptism; he had been baptized elsewhere.
Ultimately the registration of BMD in 1945 - 1946 are the only legal documents that count.
