Penniedarling

We found this out last year, when trying to transfer one of our cars from David's name to mine, the Motor Registry wanted to see our Marriage Certificate!  We told them we were married in England but are both Australian born and Australian Citizens and they then asked us if we had registered our marriage at Births Deaths and Marriages...  No we hadn't even thought of it... they then told us that our British Marriage Certificate isn't legal for this sort of procedure!  Wow!   but they still took our word for it and the cars were transferred.

I then spoke to my friend Brenda who knows about these sorts of things and she agreed with the Motor Registry!  Wow!

I then rang Births Deaths and Marriages and was assured that both these sources were correct and that we had better register our marriage as soon as possible!  Holey Moley!

Now this has given our children a lot to laugh about, their fuddy duddy mature parents not married?  That's a little bit weird when they've seen our Wedding photos plus Nerys and Tim got married at the Guildford Registry Office in Surrey, 20 years ago, the same place David and I were married.

Both Nerys and Tim and Tomos and Emma are fine because they got married in either England or Australia and then had another Ceremony with a Marriage Celebrant in either Australia or England.

So...  what do David and I do... we thought play it by ear and have a big party and get married one day, thinking in a couple of years when we will celebrate our 50th Anniversary of being married in Britain.

Now I've just discovered that my 4th Great Grandparents... John and Sarah Cobcroft who arrived here in 1790 unmarried... didn't marry until they'd had 10 children and been together for 50 years!  WOW!

Soooo...  Roll on 2018... do you think we can stay together that long???

Labels: Cobcroft, David and Pennie