Marriages
Civil Registration
The Civil Registration Act of 1837 made it a requirement that all subjects throughout the United Kingdom registered births, marriages and deaths. Each District had a Superintendent Registrar who was responsible to the Registrar General in London. Each Registrar issued printed books 
of Registration for births, marriages and deaths to each of his districts incumbents. They in turn would register the events and when the duplicate book was full, they were sent to the Superintendent Registrar who in turn would forward them to the Registrar General in London.
Marriages.
The Act of 1837 made non-registration of marriages punishable by the County Courts. The 1653 Act had made the age of consent of 16 years for males and 14 years for females. In 1753 Hardwicke’s Marriage Act placed constraints on those under age the age of twenty-one and needed the consent of their parents to marry. By 1823 the age of consent had changed again. A couple could undergo a legal marriage even without the parents consent, and the age reverted to 14 for boys and 12 for girls, although some marriages of younger children did take place (Colin R Chapman, Marriage Laws, Rites, Records & Customs). In 1929 the Act was again changed and made it illegal for anyone under the age of 16 to marry.
The archive of marriages for Monmouthshire is extensive and some Parish Registers have marriages that date back to the mid seventeenth century. For a list of those marriages for this particular part of the County and those transcribed by E.G.G.R.A see Chapels & Churches.