Daily Ancestorsponsalia
Sponsalia is Latin for betrothal or engagement, and in some registers it heads the record of the banns before a wedding.
Sponsalia means a betrothal, the formal promise to marry. Some parishes kept a separate book of sponsalia, recording engagements and the reading of the banns before the wedding itself.
A sponsalia entry may name the couple, their parents and witnesses even if the marriage took place in another parish. Look in the bride's parish for the wedding.
As seen in a recordHeading in a parish book of engagements
Sponsalia: Joannes Klein et Barbara Roth
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