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== Great Britain  ==

'''''"Lex, loci" marriages are those administered under the country's marriage laws.'''''  

== Bedfordshire  ==

''Websites:''  

== Berkshire  ==

== Bristol, Somerset  ==

== Buckinghamshire  ==

== Cambridgeshire  ==

== Cheshire  ==

'''Collections:'''  

''Websites:''  

== Cleveland  ==

Towns – Billingham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton-on-Tees, Yarm.  

'''''Note''': it does not appear as a county in Wiki…yet.''  

== Cornwall  ==

== Cumberland  ==

'''Cumbria – The''' county of Cumbria was formed 1 April 1974 from the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, part of northern Lancashire and part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.  

== Derbyshire  ==

== Devon  ==

Note: at this site there is a list of parishes with links to those parishes where there is an Online Parish Clerk, which will be helpful to your Patron, if all other resources fail to help him.  

== Dorset  ==

== Durham  ==

'''Collections:'''  

'''Note:''' ''The Bishop of Durham's transcripts of marriage bonds and allegations for Allertonshire Peculiar, includes the following Yorkshire parishes: Birkby, Cowesby, Hutton Bonville, Leake, Nether Silton, North Otterington, Osmotherly and Thornton-le-Street.''  

'''Note:''' DMB = Durham Marriage Bonds  

== Essex  ==

''Websites:''  

== Gloucestershire  ==

== Greater London  ==

…is a '''civil parish''' - the most local unit of government in England. A parish is governed by a parish council or parish meeting, which exercises a limited number of functions that would otherwise be delivered by the local authority. There are no civil parishes in Greater London and not all of the rest of England is parishes.  

== Hampshire  ==

'''Note: '''Hampshire, also known as Southamptonshire, is principally a maritime and agricultural county located on the south coast of England. The '''Isle of Wight''' was originally part of Hampshire but is now a county in its own right.  

== Herefordshire  ==

'''Note: '''Herefordshire, or Hereford, is an inland county contiguous to Wales in England.  

== Hertfordshire  ==

== Huntingdonshire  ==

== Isle of Wight  ==

'''Note: '''The '''Isle of Wight''' was originally part of Hampshire but is now a county in its own right.  

== Isles of Scilly, a parish in Cornwall  ==

Typically unitary authorities cover [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town towns] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City cities] which are large enough to function independently of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County county] or other regional administration. Sometimes they consist of national sub-divisions which are distinguished from others in the same country by having no lower level of administration.  

== Kent  ==

== Lancashire  ==

== Leicestershire  ==

== Lincolnshire  ==

== London  ==

Strictly speaking, London was not a county until the establishment of the London County Council (LCC) in 1889. As a result of the huge expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries into one of the largest cities in the world, this new administrative unit absorbed parts of several of the historical counties surrounding it: Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Essex. Throughout these changes, the City of London, whose area was largely established in Roman times, maintained its independence, and these pages are focused on that area, often referred to as 'The City' or 'The Square Mile'.  

== Middlesex  ==

== Norfolk  ==

== Northamptonshire  ==

== Northumberland  ==

Workhouses – you will have to Google for the workhouses and choose in this county as the URL for Peter Higginbotham’s site for Northumberland is not available for copying.  

== Nottinghamshire  ==

== Oxfordshire  ==