The Roman Catholic Church of St James the Less, Rawtenstall in the County of -- Lancashire --

Marriages at St James the Less
in the Town of Rawtenstall, Rossendale
Marriages recorded in the Register for 1836 - 1854

The front of the register contains 2 documents which have been attached with wax seals. These read as follows:-

County Palatine of Lancaster, To wit.
These are to certify that at the General Quarter Session of the Peace, held by adjournment at Salford in the said County, the fifth day of July in the fifth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, a certain chapel situate at Sunnyside in the said County of which The Reverend William Fayer is officiating priest and Minister was certified to the Justices here assembled as a Place of Congregation or Assembly for Religious Worship; and that the same was recorded at this Session pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the Thirty first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act to relieve, upon Conditions and under Restrictions, the Persons therein described from certain Penalties and Disabilities to which Papists or Persons professing the Popish Religion are by Law Subject."
[Signed] C Gorst
Deputy Clerk of the Peace for Lancashire

I, Henry King Superintendent Registrar of the District of Haslingden in the County of Lancaster do hereby certify, That the Building named Saint James's Church situated at Rawtenstall in the Parish of Whalley in the County of Lancaster having be duly certified as a place of Public Religious Worship, was registered for the Solemnization of Marriage therein, on the Thirtieth day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty six.Witness my hand this Thirty first day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty six.
[Signed] Henry King
Superintendent Registrar