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I believe that both All Saints Church, Wigan and Manchester Cathedral followed the Anglican faith. (CofE). The Cathedral is certainly not Roman Catholic.
I am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong.....
Dea x
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http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Manchester/Manchester/cathedral/
The Cathedral, Manchester in the County of Lancashire --
(Previously known as the Collegiate Church)
There has been a parish church on or near the site of the Cathedral since the late Anglo Saxon or early Norman period.
It was in 1421 that the parish church of the little known village that was to become Manchester was raised to the status of a Collegiate Church (a church served by resident canons). It was elevated to Cathedral status in 1847 and dedicated to St Mary, St Denys and St George.
Manchester was a very large parish with an influx of inhabitants in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The Potato famine in Ireland and the Industrial Revolution were major causes of this population explosion.
Could your couple have been part of this influx having married elsewhere and come into Manchester where their family were born and raised?
http://www.manchestercathedral.org/history/archives -
here it says that the ancient parish of Manchester was 60 square miles in size, including 30 townships etc etc .......
- the other reason for the volume of baptisms and marriages conducted at Manchester was that the Collegiate Church retained a virtual monopoly over the licences to perform the ceremonies. There were outlying chapels within the parish, but a ceremony at one of the chapels was liable to a double fee – one to the chapel, and one to the mother church at the centre.
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Manchester_Our_Lady,_St_George_and_St_Denys,_Lancashire_Genealogy -
gives a list of place names within the parish boundaries but is not complete.
It would appear that you didn't have to live on the doorstep to need the services of the collegiate church!
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Anglicans (or CofE) have Cathedrals as well as RC!!!
Manchester Cathedral is most certainly Anglican.
People might well have got married there because they considered it the "mother church".
For example, up until about 1840 or so, the Parish Church for Oldham was in Prestwich, then the parish of Oldham got large enough to have a church of its own. So Oldham Parish Church was built ................ but many people would still walk all the way to Prestwich to get married because that was THE church. Some of them even took their babies to Prestwich to be baptised.
My own GG grandparents were married in Prestwich even though they lived in Oldham and Oldham Parish Church was in existence.
One unfortunate effect of this is that the couple would often have to go alone as their relatives or friends did not have the time ................ so the witnesses for many of those weddings are of no use in tracing family relationships.
They are known as "professional witnesses" .............. members of the church who would act as witness for the payment of a small sum of money. Often, it will be the Church Warden or others who could be around during the day.
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