Marriage records

[Rosesroses]

Is there any way for me to search my husband's marriage records? It is just to confirm through the documents this is his first marriage.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/birthmarriagedeathenglandwales.htm

If you are suspicious then you don't trust him. Without trust, a relationship will ultimately fail.

You don't trust that it isn't? I'd say that that is a fairly good reason not to marry someone TBH!

if he has married after 2006 you may not see the records online.

why are you marrying someone you trust this little?

The OP is asking about her husband's marriage records, so I assume they are already married. Something must have happened to make her doubt him. I agree with PP, without trust the relationship will ultimately fail.

So sorry you have been put in this position Roses.

Oh yes, good point MrsSquirrel. I read that as future husband, but of course that isn't what the OP says.

You can search online for English and Welsh records up to the end of 2005, but not past there. And Scotland is separate.

I trust him and I just wanted to confirm on the document. Actually we obtained a marriage licence. Does the registrar check the couple's marriage records before issuing the licence?

No. They'd have no particular way of telling whether or not it's the same Albert R. Bloggs anyway.

They do specifically ask about previous marriages and his answer will effectively be recorded on your own marriage certificate; if he said he'd never been married before it will say "bachelor" while if said he'd been married before it will say "widower" or "divorced". So if you trust him you just need to check that. If you think he may have lied to the registrar even though you trust him you'd need to also check the index to records yourself (although that won't pick up any marriage outside England and Wales or any marriage after 2005).